The Slow Violence of Green Capitalism
Green capitalism is slow violence. It works through distance and disguise, where branding sanitises harm and abstraction shields exploitation. The structure beneath remains intact.
Analysis
The Red Soil
For People And Planet
Ideas and analysis for justice and ecology — from Africa and beyond
Latest Dispatches
Eco-socialist and decolonial analysis from Africa and beyond — confronting the systems that exploit people and the Earth alike.
What Socialism Actually Says About Property – And Why the Myths Persist
People often think socialism wants to abolish toothbrushes and ban small businesses. These myths survive because they protect the interests of those who benefit from confusion. This article clears the fog around what socialism actually proposes — and why.
TheoryAnalysis
COP30: A Summit Captured by Fossil Power
COP30 gathered the world to chart a liveable future yet admitted nearly fifteen hundred fossil lobbyists and delivered a declaration that refused to commit to phasing out fossil fuels. This article examines what that means for climate justice, democracy, and the Global South.
AnalysisClimate Politics
Theoretical Foundations
Historical Materialism
Understanding the present through the forces and relations of production — how material conditions, not ideals alone, shape society, history, and the natural world we depend on.
Decoloniality
Revealing how colonial power endures beyond formal empire — embedded in economies, cultures, and systems of knowledge and governance. Liberation requires delinking from colonial modernity in both thought and ecology.
Eco-Socialism
Linking social and ecological justice through democracy and public power. The struggle for a liveable planet demands collective ownership and freedom from capitalist and extractive domination.
Anti-Imperialism
Standing against domination in all its forms — military, economic, and ideological — and building international solidarity among peoples and movements resisting empire.
Global Solidarity
Writing from Africa for a shared world — reclaiming narrative space from empire and grounding analysis in lived struggle, cooperation, and mutual liberation.
Praxis Over Theory
Ideas matter only when they serve collective action. Theory must guide struggle — never replace it.