• 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.

• Hilary Goodfriend

Xiomara Castro’s leftist government must create capacity for self-determination in a state vulnerable to US pressure and constructed to serve monopoly capital.

• Benjamin Fogel
• Claire-Anne Lester

The Marikana Massacre changed democratic South Africa forever. It can also catalyze resistance to the current order.

• Camila Osorio Avendano

The left's win in Colombia signals that after more than six decades of war, people just want to live with dignity and in peace.

• Ra’eesa Pather
• Michael Marchant

South Africa’s ruling party’s devotion to its policy of cadre deployment is an indication that it values its own power more than the public interest.

• Flore Nobime
• Olivier van Beemen

Journalism has become a risky and dangerous business in Benin.

• Noor Nieftagodien

Before the Soweto Uprising in 1976, students and workers organized one of the largest strike actions in South Africa’s history.