Daraja Press is a radical publisher of books from the global South, contributing to reclaiming the past, contesting the present and inventing the future

Joined September 2016
Small little foot soldiers fought apartheid: union activists building solidarity, churchgoers driving boycotts, students forcing divestment, individuals keeping safe houses… and a student radio show. Five episodes, Mondays from Nov 9. Trailer out now.
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Xenophobic violence in South Africa is not a spontaneous eruption of anger. It is a political project, systematically constructed across the post-apartheid period by the state, the media and organised political forces. Richard Pithouse's book documents how. A thread.
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Scholarship in the service of struggle. Pithouse is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. Foreword by Michael Neocosmos. Afterword by S'bu Zikode, founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo.
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A person is a person wherever they may find themselves. Against organised cruelty, that is the ground to stand on. Read the feature: darajapress.substack.com/p/e… Buy the book: darajapress.com/publication/… Subscribe: darajapress.substack.com/
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When a man is stoned to death in front of a police station, & the killer says I killed one Muslim today & will kill more, what does this say about our society? My @karwanemohabbat comrade Omair asks in anguish when he investigates this hate crime in Alwar maktoobmedia.com/post?id=116…
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Joe Pillay talks to Doug Miller about Taking Up the Spear, Shadrach Mufumulo's Struggle Against Apartheid. darajapress.com/joe-pillay-t… Don't miss this great interview
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Article by Sergey Lavrov «Ukraine, Europe and Global Security», 19 June 2026 defenddemocracy.press/articl… via @@Delphi2015
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🇵🇸If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE —Official Book Trailer | Yahia Lababidi youtu.be/NKvyUGY39cw?si=H4zo… via @YouTube Beautifully done, even if it means moving on from poetry to poetic prose
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The image of digitalisation in a virtual “cloud” diverts from the actuality: digitalisation infrastructure—such as data centres—is a massive user of land, water, and electricity. Fact sheet 4 on digital infrastructure in Africa calls for robust safeguards. t2m.io/Digital-Infrastructur…
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ORGANIZING AGAINST THE RIGHT: DISCUSSION WITH BILL FLETCHER JR darajapress.com/organizing-a…
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