Governance

South Africa and the United States are presently in the early stages of a militant mass Black movement.

Towards the end of his magisterial Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (the final volume completed in 1776) Edward Gibbon pauses to reflect on how by the 15th century the Greeks – the creators of modern civilization – began to take serious notice of the newer nations of northern Europe, which th

Before Thursday 25th December 2014 the name Azealia Banks meant absolutely nothing to me. My moment of awareness arrived while browsing through The Guardian’s online pages, a headline ‘Iggy Azalea, Azealia Banks and hip-hop's appropriation problem’[1] caught my attention.

INTRODUCTION

In a Washington Post op-ed last week, ‘The IMF's Perestroika Moment’, Boston University political economists Cornel Ban a

December 20, 1989 is a day of infamy for the people of Panama. On that day, the most powerful military in the world descended on poor black communities in the middle of Panama City and carried out one of the most brutal war crimes of the late 20th century. Many in the U.S.

INTRODUCTION

An upsurge in mass demonstrations and rebellions across the United States portends much for developments in 2015. None of the underlying factors associated with the rise in police killings and other racist incidents have been seriously addressed by the federal government and the bourgeoisie.

Over the quiet holiday season, the front pages of Durban’s newspapers screamed out again and again about the diesel spill in the upmarket, traditionally-white suburb of Hillcrest.