Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
 
Revolutionary
Socialism in the
21st Century

Leo Zeilig

Mugabe is dead: remember Chiadzwa

Robert Mugabe’s rule was a disaster for Zimbabwe’s poor. The massacre at Chiadzwa deserves to stand as his testament, writes Leo Zeilig.

Mugabe’s fall creates a chance for real change in Zimbabwe

We should celebrate the fall of Robert Mugabe. But hypocritical governments like Britain’s that are now attacking him supported him for years, writes Leo Zeilig. Real democracy has to be rooted in popular struggles inside Zimbabwe – and such movements have a powerful history. A moment came on Saturday 18 November which thousands of Zimbabweans […]

‘There are no foreigners here except the bosses’: Precarious workers strike back

Leo Zeilig, author of An Ounce of Practice (Hoperoad, 2017), describes recent precarious workers’ strikes at the University of London. By eight in the morning on Tuesday last week it had already been raining for a few hours. I had turned up early for the strike and stopped on my way to the picket-line in […]

A return to the madness – Zimbabwe’s reawakening

Leo Zeilig, author of a recent book on Franz Fanon, reports on how a national shutdown is threatening Zimbabwe’s Mugabe regime and explains the origins of the current struggle. Last week a national shutdown or ‘stay away’ in Zimbabwe paralysed the country. For the first time in years the country’s ruling party, ZANU-PF, and the […]

Revisiting Frantz Fanon: memories and moments of a militant philosopher

A new book by Leo Zeilig focuses on one of Africa and the modern era’s most celebrated revolutionaries, whose views remain influential long after his death. Many people spoke well that day. Delegates had come from across the African continent to independent Ghana for the All-African Peoples’ Conference in 1958. Most spoke of the continuing […]

New radical website launched – Review of African Political Economy

A new website Review of African Political Economy has been launched and is a great resource for socialists says Leo Zeilig.

Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Liberation

Leo Zeilig‘s biography of Frantz Fanon, The Militant Philosopher of Third World Liberation, is out on 5 November. Here are a few teasers from the book with introductions by the author. In 1953 Fanon moved to Algeria to work in the small town of Blida, about 50 miles from the capital Algiers. He applied for a […]