How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2025)
Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.
Newsletters
Each week, we produce a newsletter that provides a crisp analysis of contemporary developments and the struggles and conflicts of our time, highlights our newly launched publications, and offers a window into the work of left intellectuals and research institutes around the world.
May / 2025
A Language of Blood Has Gripped Our World: The Twentieth Newsletter (2025)
Sudan’s forgotten civil war has killed at least 150,000 and displaced nearly 13 million. Understanding its political details is key to tracing the causes and potential solutions to the conflict.
Israel’s Crimes in the West Bank: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2025)
Israel’s actions in the West Bank – including the denial of basic services, forced displacement, mass killings and incarceration, and the destruction of infrastructure – are part of its genocidal policy.
They Are Making Venezuela’s Economy Scream: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2025)
US-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million…
Archive
Two Hundred Years Ago, France Strangled the Haitian Revolution with an Inhumane Debt: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2025)
Since its 1804 revolution, Haiti has been punished for its freedom – crippled with debt, coups, and foreign meddling – but we must never forget that it was the first successful anti-imperialist revolution.
Waiting for a New Bandung Spirit: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2025)
After many decades of stasis, we see the growth of a ‘new mood’ in the Global South. Though only a hint of a new possibility, it holds tremendous democratic potential, with sovereignty at its centre.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp Was Liberated by Communist Prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)
Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are…
Andrée Blouin Is Our Kind of Pan-African Revolutionary: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2025)
There is a rich tradition of women writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike, from Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa. Learn more about their legacy…
What Rodolfo Walsh Would Demand We Write in His Place: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2025)
As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.
Unilateral Coercive Measures and the War on Women: The Twelfth Newsletter (2025)
Despite being among the most impacted by economic war, women continue to foster a sense of solidarity, care, and hope in humanity.
Twenty-Five Days of Debt-Service Payments Could Emancipate African Women from 40 Billion Hours of Water Harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)
In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the US effectively holds a veto over any major changes and…
China Has Already Become the Leader in Advanced Critical Technologies: The Ninth Newsletter (2025)
Will the US’s geopolitical chess moves, from Greenland to Ukraine to Russia, be enough to eclipse China’s rapid advancement in critical technologies?
We Want to Build Communities of Readers, Not Turn Readers into Commodities: The Eighth Newsletter (2025)
Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life – it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present, and demand the impossible of the future.
Clean Waters and Green Mountains Are as Valuable as Gold and Silver Mountains: The Seventh Newsletter (2025)
What new worlds can science fiction imagine? From clean energy to ecological transitions, this newsletter explores how Global South writers and policymakers alike imagine – and create – futures beyond colonialism, pollution, and environmental destruction.
Let Us Find Our Lost Diamonds: The Sixth Newsletter (2025)
Since returning to office, Trump has made clear his intentions of ushering in a new Golden Age of imperialism. With NATO at his disposal, what will this new hyper-imperialism mean for the rest of the…
