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Gustavo Petro speaks at an event after the 2022 Congressional elections in Colombia, on March 13, 2022. (Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
ALVARO GARCIA LINERA

Colombian left ascends to power by uniting progressive forces

The fourth instalment on lessons for the left shows how the Colombian left built a successful electoral project in face of brutal opposition from entrenched elites backed by US…

  • Imraan Buccus
7 min read
SARB governor Lesetja Kganyago. Photo by Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Swift action: Sanction-heavy future calls for policymakers to de-risk

The Reserve Bank has warned that sanctions will be ‘catastrophic’ to the economy, which is currently vulnerable to geopolitical shocks

  • Sarah Smit
6 min read
Excavating memory: Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson, here pictured in Ethiopia, celebrated black culture and taught a generation of black intellectuals to think, and laugh, the authors remember. (Photo: Courtesy of Jill Bradbury)
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

In the castle of Bheki Peterson’s care

A master of anecdotes, the late Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson raised a generation of black thinkers

  • Mapule Mohulatsi
  • Zuko Zikalala
  • Thobile Ndimande
7 min read
With inequality framed as a key trigger for the worldwide unrest comes the circulation of literature breaking down the disparities between rich and poor — in Chile and Lebanon, they are frighteningly high. (Reuters/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez)
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

Where will neoliberalism end?

LONG READ As the world was overtaken by upheaval last year, one photo emerging from the uprisings depicts a protestor bearing a promise: “Neoliberalism was born in Chile and will…

  • William Shoki
22 min read