Analysis
What Is to Be Done? Lenin's Answer to Why Nothing Changes
Look around the world. In the last twenty years, millions have poured into the streets. In Ethiopia, in Sudan, in Kenya, in Nigeria, in Chile, in France, in the United States, in Sri Lanka, in Iran, in Myanmar. Workers have struck. Students have marched. Entire cities have been shut down. And yet, nothing has fundamentally changed. The same elites remain in power. The same compradors grow richer. The same IMF arrives with the same demands.
Sira Staff · Sep 24 · 13 readers
No, Speed Didn't Help Our Case
On January 13, 2026, IShowSpeed’s Addis Ababa stream passed 9.9 million views and peaked at roughly 257,000 live viewers—the biggest day of his 28-country Africa tour. Ethiopians flooded TikTok and X, while the Ministry of Tourism welcomed him with a gold bracelet. For one afternoon, it felt like the world was finally looking at us—and liking what it saw. But ask the harder question: what, exactly, was the world shown—and who decided?
Sira Staff · Sep 11 · 8 readers
Leopold: The Man Far Worse Than Hitler, But You Rarely Hear About — And Why
There's a photograph from around 1904 that a lot of people have seen without ever learning the story behind it: a Congolese man named Nsala, sitting on a porch, staring down at a small severed hand and foot laid out in front of him.
Sira Staff · Sep 8 · 16 readers
Ethiopia at the Crossroads: Who Owns the Future?
Ethiopia is not a country without wealth. It is a country whose wealth is unequally organized. This is an analysis of what that actually means, for the farmer, the worker, the graduate, and the country's fragile peace.
Sira Staff · Sep 1 · 9 readers
The Cover Story: How States Launder Fascist Continuity Behind a Manufactured Enemy
In 1950, 47 percent of the senior officials in West Germany's own Justice Ministry were former Nazi party members. By the late 1950s, that number had climbed to 77 percent. The Interior Ministry wasn't better: 54 percent of its staff between 1949 and 1970 were former Nazi party members, 8 percent of them holdovers from the actual Nazi-era Interior Ministry once run by Heinrich Himmler. These are not activist claims.
Sira Staff · Aug 31 · 5 readers
The Abiy Ahmed Phenomenon: A Marxist Analysis
A lieutenant colonel who spent his career inside Ethiopia's signals-intelligence apparatus becomes prime minister promising to unite a fractured federation. Within eighteen months, he wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Within thirty, he is presiding over a war that kills more people than almost any conflict on Earth this century.
Sira Staff · Aug 26 · 16 readers
Social Democrats, Liberals, and the Sheepdogs: Why Neither Communists Nor Anyone Else Should Trust the Reform
Bismarck built the welfare state to prevent revolution. Bernie pledged DNC loyalty. AOC voted “present.” Mamdani won as a Democrat. A materialist critique of reform as pressure valve, not destination—and what that means for socialism in America.
Sira Staff · Aug 21 · 6 readers
Stop Blaming "Great Men." Fascism Is a System, Not a Person.
Liberal politics loves a hero and a villain. But history isn't written by singular men at the top — it's written by the systems they operate inside and the movements that rise up against them.
Sira Staff · Aug 20 · 73 readers