• Kabengele Munanga

A scholar of Black Brazil discusses the past, present, and future of the antiracist movement, in the run up to this year's presidential elections.

• William Shoki

Where can the left look to inspiration in the wake of defeat? Our first letter from our new deputy editor.

• William Shoki

South African policing is a tool of social control and repression. Are democratic and humanistic alternatives possible? This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss.

• Christopher McMichael

By using healthcare to attack immigrants, xenophobic political movements in South Africa echo long-standing right-wing obsessions.

• Khwezi Mabasa
• Dominic Brown

South African companies can afford to pay their workers a living wage—if not for their commitment to profit shifting, as the case of Lonmin and Marikana showed.

• Mathijs Cazemier

It will have to be the Algerian diaspora inside France who will eventually have to mainstream the truth of France's colonial legacy.

• Regina Guzman

Why the COVID-19 pandemic is the easy culprit of the global learning crisis—and why that is only half of the story.

• Laura Evans

Revisionist histories of South Africa’s transition to democracy are overdue, like on the deadly march on Bisho in the Ciskei homeland on 7 September 1992.

• Basil Abia

Peter Obi's campaign for president points to new possibilities for a politics that represents Nigeria's poor and working classes.

• Camalita Naicker

Why do representative bodies like the union, the party, and the so-called Left seem to fail its constituents during struggles like Marikana?

• Ziyanda Stuurman

Accountability—insofar as it ever existed within the South African Police Service—has been reduced to a merely theoretical concept. It is time this changed.

• Naadira Munshi

In South Africa, the seismic shifts in unionism triggered by the Marikana Massacre have sadly not resulted in a union movement better equipped to tackle the issues that workers face.

• Shaeera Kalla

The impact of the Marikana massacre on South Africa’s student movement for free education, and an end to outsourcing, has been overlooked.

• P. Anyang’ Nyong’o

Africa's political liberation and economic emancipation can't be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity.

• Pablo Pyrluka

The challenge presented by Argentina: What is the best way to deal with global fiscal pressures in a local context of high expectations and public demands?

• Sabrina Fernandes

Lula's challenge in Brazil: To be successful with proposed reforms, he’d need to take back the anti-systemic appeal stolen by the far-right.

• Edwin F. Ackerman

Mexico’s president has a mandate for radical change, but this change must be negotiated within a context of limits produced by the neoliberal period itself.

• Stephen Corry

Western conservation NGOs condemn violence against Maasai, but also don't want herders or subsistence hunters on land they want to control and profit from.

• René Rojas

While Chileans have defeated the post-authoritarian neoliberal regime, they face major obstacles on the road to a post-neoliberal social democracy.

• Luke Sinwell
• Nicholas Rush Smith

We know an enormous amount about what precipitated the 2012 Marikana massacre, but relatively little about what is behind the violence there since.