Month: January 2023

Originally From: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/three-dialectics-of-racial-capitalism-from-south-africa-to-the-us-and-back-again/6EA3F32C306D4896938000199B8E87A6 Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2022 Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret Abstract The current popularity of “racial capitalism” in the American academy is typically attributed to the work of Cedric Robinson. But in this paper, we demonstrate that Robinson was riding a wave that began a decade before: in the South African movement against apartheid. We trace the intellectual history of the concept through two heydays, one peaking in the 1970s and 1980s and another emerging following the 2008 financial crisis. To make sense of…

Congratulations to the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka on the launch of its new website, Asani Voice. We wish the website every success in its aim of publishing materials against capitalist exploitation and oppression, with an emphasis on South Asia but in the larger framework of the global movement. In pursuit of its goal of promoting interconnection between socialist organisations around the world, Asani Voice should feel free to reproduce articles from the League for the Fifth International’s website, <fifthinternational.org> International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International.

On this day, 27 December 1831, the Christmas rebellion in Jamaica escalated as 60,000 of the country’s 300,000 enslaved people went on strike and rose up against slavery.It is known as the Christmas rebellion as it began with a strike on Christmas day, demanding wages and more free time. The plantation owners rejected the demands, and so on December 27, enslaved people on the Kensington estate downed tools and set their sugarcane fields on fire. The rebels organised their own military units, and travelled through other estates, burning buildings and…