Frantz Fanon

We honour the life and legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025): revolutionary, writer, and prophet of the African soul. Remember his oeuvre, his exile, his fight and the future he envisioned

Our first art bulletin of 2025 explores socialism as a cultural movement, tracing connections between cultural work, political education, and class struggle in revolutionary efforts across the Soviet Union, China, and Brazil’s MST.

Apartheid, occupation, and genocide are at the heart of the situation in Gaza – despite the baseless claim of Israel and its Global North allies that the use of these terms is tantamount to anti-Semitism.

This dossier returns to the workers whose political contribution in the 1973 Durban strikes, and in the labour and democratic movements that followed, was, in the end, decisive.