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John S. Saul, born and first educated in Toronto, Canada, moved to Tanzania almost sixty years ago and, since then, has also taught in Mozambique and South Africa as well as back in Canada at York University. In Tanzania, he discovered the centrality of the war for freedom from white rule and global capitalist dictate then taking shape further south - in Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. Both his scholarly interest and his activist bent drew him to support and to seek to better understand the struggles in these nations-in-the-making, a political choice that now culminates in a final trilogy of books under the general title, The Rethinking Southern African Liberation Trilogy. The first volume of this trilogy, On Building a Social Movement: The North American Campaign for Southern African Liberation Revisited, was published by Africa World Press  / Fernwood Books (2017). The present book is the second in that trilogy, with a third volume entitled Class, Race and the Thirty Years War for Southern African Liberation - A History set to conclude his work to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Here, Saul's extended first chapter lays out the broad premises of the thinking that has guided his endeavours, ideas that takes the core reality of economic production and exploitation centrally but that are alive to the tangible impact on outcomes of a wide range of other social realities, including class, race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, the environment, politics and the state. A second section covers the essential unity of theory and political practice that underpins Saul's findings. And a third and final section paints illuminating pictures of some core aspects of the diverse regional contexts - sites of both recolonization and continuing struggle, and all contexts whose trajectories will be further explored in his forthcoming third volume.

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This is not a book to rush through, but one to savor as one would a fine wine. The relevance of the analyses goes far beyond Southern Africa, and beyond Africa, but leads one to consider the dimensions and challenges faced by a 21st century emancipatory project.--Bill Fletcher, Jr., trade union activist and co-editor of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral. A tour de force from a scholar who exemplifies the value of praxis, in this volume John Saul encourages us as always to face grim realities while inspiring us to hope. Also: a cracking good read! -- Shireen Hassim, Canada Research Chair, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is author of Women's organizations and democracy in South Africa: Contesting authority. Both detailed and illuminating, this is a theoretically and historically grounded work from a veteran Marxist scholar on the major challenges facing the struggle for the genuine liberation of Africa. -- Karim F Hirji, Tanzanian professor and scholar-activist, author of Under-Education in Africa. In his careful re-historicizing of so many political personalities and movements, past and present, John Saul has again demonstrated the essence of his prodigious career: more than six decades of a deeply reflected life of public intellectual activism and committed and brilliant Africanist scholarship. -- Pablo Idahosa, Professor of African Studies and International Development Studies, York University, author of The Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere

This is not a book to rush through, but one to savor as one would a fine wine. The relevance of the analyses goes far beyond Southern Africa, and beyond Africa, but leads one to consider the dimensions and challenges faced by a 21st century emancipatory project.'AEiBill Fletcher, Jr., trade union activist and co-editor of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral. A tour de force from a scholar who exemplifies the value of praxis, in this volume John Saul encourages us as always to face grim realities while inspiring us to hope. Also: a cracking good read! 'AEi Shireen Hassim, Canada Research Chair, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is author of Women's organizations and democracy in South Africa: Contesting authority. Both detailed and illuminating, this is a theoretically and historically grounded work from a veteran Marxist scholar on the major challenges facing the struggle for the genuine liberation of Africa. 'AEi Karim F Hirji, Tanzanian professor and scholar-activist, author of Under-Education in Africa. In his careful re-historicizing of so many political personalities and movements, past and present, John Saul has again demonstrated the essence of his prodigious career: more than six decades of a deeply reflected life of public intellectual activism and committed and brilliant Africanist scholarship. 'AEi Pablo Idahosa, Professor of African Studies and International Development Studies, York University, author of The Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere

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"Professor, Activist and Author: - at York University (Toronto), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Universidade de Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo, Mozambique), University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) - active with, among other organizations, the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Mozambique's African Colonies (TCLPAC) and the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (TCLSAC) and editor of, among other publications) This Magazine and Southern Africa Report - currently, formally retired and engaged in several writing projects The Next Liberation Struggle: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa (Toronto, London, New York and Durban/ Pietermaritzburg: Between The Lines, Merlin Press, Monthly Review Press and University of Kwazulu/Natal Press, 2001). Development after Globalization: Theory and Practice for the Embattled South in a New Imperial Age (Delhi, London & New York, Halifax and Durban/Pietermaritzburg: Three Essays Collective, Zed Press, Fernwood Press and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006). Decolonization and Empire: Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond (Delhi, London & New York and Johannesburg: Three Essays Collective, Merlin Press and University of Witwatersrand Press, 2007). Revolutionary Traveller: Freeze-Frames from a Life (Winnipeg, Canada: Arbeiter-Ring, 2009) Liberation Lite: The Roots of Recolonization in Southern Africa (Delhi and Trenton, N. J.: Three Essays Collective and Africa World Press, 2011). The Present as History - South Africa: From Mrs Ples to Marikana and Mandela, with Patrick Bond (Oxford and Johannesburg: James Currey and Jacana Press, 20110. A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking Southern African Liberation (London, Toronto and Cape Town: Pluto Books, Between the Lines, and Juta/University of Cape Town Press, 2014). The ""Rethinking Southern African Liberation"" Trilogy: On Building a Social Movement: The North American Campaign for Southern African Liberation Revisited (Trenton, N. J./Cape Town and Halifax and Winnipeg: African World Press and Fernwood Publishing, 2017). Revolutionary Hope vs Free-Market Fantasies - Keeping the Southern Africa Liberation Struggle Alive: Theory, Practice, Contexts (the present book). The Thirty Years War for Southern African Liberation, 1960-1994: A History (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press [in preparation for 2020/21])"

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