Vishwas Satgar is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, and has been involved in grassroots activism for over three decades. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series and has published widely on Africa, South Africa, transnational alternatives and Marxism. In 2015, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the World Association of Political Economy for initiating and editing this series. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is professor emerita at California State University. Sharon Ekambaram is head of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme at Lawyers for Human Rights. Fabian Georgi is a research associate at the University of Marburg, Germany. Ran Greenstein is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Peter Hudson is an honorary senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Khwezi Mabasa is a researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection. Firoze Manji is an adjunct professor at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. Nivedita Menon is a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Aditya Nigam is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi.