Obituary Remembering Big George’s impact on boxing and history ROGER McKENZIE writes about late boxing legend Foreman’s legacy, from his part in Rumble in the Jungle to becoming world heavyweight champion at 45
Features | Thursday 20th Mar 2025 Walter Rodney: the revolutionary who explained African exploitation
Saturday 28th Dec 2024 No more Rhodesias: renaming Africa From Zimbabwe’s provinces to Mali’s streets, nations are casting off colonial labels in their quest for true independence and dignity in a revival of the pan-African spirit, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Tuesday 26th Nov 2024 ‘Come see Nicaragua’s reality for yourself’ Challenging critics of the Sandinista government, the young Nicaraguan union leader FLAVIA OCAMPO speaks to Roger McKenzie about the nation’s progressive health system and how trade unions have been at the centre of social progress
Thursday 14th Nov 2024 Resist despair: learn from struggles in the global South ROGER McKENZIE argues that facing Trump’s victory and global crises requires looking beyond failed Western organising models to successful resistance movements in the developing world
Thursday 31st Oct 2024 Brics – the genie is well and truly out of the bottle With the recent meeting in Kazan providing a glimpse of freedom for the global South, we must develop local, regional and international networks that can apply meaningful pressure on those who could steer this new grouping awry, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 17th Oct 2024 Making Black History Month meaningful again ROGER McKENZIE argues that Black History Month has been sanitised, losing its original purpose of empowering black people through knowledge of their history and struggles to actually go out and fight the battles of today
Tuesday 15th Oct 2024 CND conference charts the path for a new peace movement ROGER McKENZIE reports on how peace activists in Britain are uniting diverse struggles against war, climate change and racism to build a powerful force for global justice in an era of deepening conflict
Thursday 03rd Oct 2024 From Memphis to Mandela: Bill Lucy’s lifelong fight for dignity and justice ROGER McKENZIE pays heartfelt tribute to the legendary trade unionist who championed black workers while forging powerful alliances across colour lines, reshaping the US labour movement
Thursday 19th Sep 2024 From the IMF to Brics: the emerging multipolar order and the imperialist backlash New alliances like Brics are forging a multilateral world as the global South nations assert their true independence after almost a century of nominal sovereignty under the reality of crushing economic servitude, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Sunday 15th Sep 2024 Radhika Desai’s Marxist lens illuminates the path to a post-capitalist future ROGER McKENZIE explores how the political economist’s work on geopolitical economics and involvement with the International Manifesto Group offer crucial insights into global power shifts as US hegemony fades
Thursday 25th Jul 2024 From Obama to Kamala, ‘diversity’ without progress is pointless Having black capitalist politicians in leadership positions shows that capitalism is able to accommodate racial diversity, writes ROGER McKENZIE — but if the world still starves and burns, so what?