... Officers and the Comrades: The Sudanese Communist Party and Nimeiri Face-to-Face, 1969–1971 Africa’s largest country, Sudan, is first and foremost part of the Arab world, sensitive to the political tides which sweep...

... political organizations such as the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) used art exhibitions to initiate ordinary people to modern political action. During the relative political stability of Gaafar Nimeiri's regime (1969–85), the state founded official cultural institutions that consolidated the exhibition as...

...Jason E. Smith This essay situates recent calls for a return to the organizational form of the party by Bruno Bosteels and Jodi Dean in the current historical conjuncture. This conjuncture is described as an “age of riots”; this age, in turn, is defined both by a global capitalist crisis and an...

... that enables antiblack racism and genocide. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Joy James The Dead Zone: Stumbling at the Crossroads of Party Politics, Genocide, and Postracial Racism In traditional African thought, there is no concept of...

...Joshua Clover; Aaron Benanav Certain currents within communist thought have emphasized a return to the party form as a model of organization for communist struggle. This essay takes the basic historical materialist position that this demand must be evaluated not according to normative claims about...

...Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim The emerging view in the scholarship about the Sudanese Women's Union (SWU) is that it was basically the creation of the patriarchal Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). On the contrary, this essay will argue that it was the product of the party's women's cadre. To this effect, the...

...Noor Nieftagodien This article critically examines the first year in the existence of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the newest left-wing party in South Africa. It argues that the EFF is a product of the post-Marikana massacre political landscape, characterized by serious questioning of the...

... decade, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) had been involved in a striking level of intra-elite political competition for national power with the Kemalist establishment, which consisted of the high ranks of the military bureaucracy (the army), the civil bureaucracy (jurisdiction), and the...

... important characteristics of the Sudanese labor movement was its close link with the Sudanese Communist Party, the second largest Communist Party in Africa until its near-destruction by the military regime of Gafaar Nimeiri in 1971. Despite persistent repression by authoritarian regimes, the Sudanese labor...

... are also examined, and we are invited to consider the impact of the state's violence on parties who are not usually understood or appreciated to be the targets of this violence. While the subject areas vary, taken together the essays in this issue suggest that to condemn the state's decision to use...

...al-Khatim Adlan In this critical essay on the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP), the late philosopher and former SCP member al-Khatim Adlan maps out the multiple histories of the efforts of Sudanese Marxists to transform the SCP into a massive social and populist movement at the national level...

...Sidgi Kaballo “Season of Migration to the Right” presents three important critiques of al-Khatim Adlan's call for the dissolution of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). Dissecting the main constructs on which this call was built, Sidgi Kaballo sets out to bring to light the shortcomings of Adlan's...

... was the culmination of a state Republican Party that had for years maintained effective minority rule by grafting the tax wedge onto the racial wedge and a Democratic opposition that came to accept the description of public infrastructure as a “safety net” for society's alleged losers. University...

...Gerald Horne This essay seeks to place in context discontent on the left with the Barack Obama administration by focusing on the remarkable fact that for decades the Euro-American majority has voted consistently for the Republican Party, while minorities—particularly the most consistent...

... inflicted on them by third parties. This legislative response offers a conceptual framework for miscarriage that both recognizes the profound sense of loss that can be experienced in its aftermath while explicitly protecting the right to abortion. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Catherine Kevin...

.... OWS operates as a flexible, “leaderless” organization, without a centralized authority or party affiliation, promoting occupation as a primary form of protest. This essay discusses the significance of the movement’s organization and strategy of occupation for its pro-democracy and wealth...

... the limited living space and time to create and remix culturally diversified repertoires in struggles. Class analysis, as a weapon of progressive social change, has to be recast in the lived experience of the working class, in relation to party-state rhetoric. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013...

... center of the Chinese Communist Party, concerned about social stability and rebalancing China’s economy through raising workers’ share of income and consumption, has increasingly sided with the struggling workers to contain the alliance between local states and private capital. The outcome of this new...

... state-sanctioned massacre of striking mineworkers at Marikana in 2012 as a significant marker for this current phase of protests, the essay explores some of the subsequent political shifts, including challenges to the hegemony of the ruling political party—the African National Congress—and to the trade...

...Dale T. McKinley The decision by the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) in late 2013 to break its long-standing alliance with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its political partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP), represents a watershed moment for left and progressive...