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A re-reading of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, by activists and thinkers from the Arabic-speaking region.
More than sixty years after the publication of The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon's revolutionary analysis continues to illuminate the structures of domination that shape the present. But what does Fanon reveal when read from the front lines of today's struggles in the very region he was radicalized in?
The Wretched of the Earth Want the Fall of the System brings together activists, organizers, and critical thinkers from Egypt, Palestine, Algeria, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, and the broader Arabic-speaking diaspora to place Fanon's landmark work in conversation with contemporary movements challenging authoritarianism, occupation, and neocolonial rule.
Rather than treating Fanon as a historical figure, the contributors return to his work as a living political practice. They argue that while formal colonialism has often given way to neocolonial forms of power, the logic of colonial domination persists through military occupation, economic dependency, authoritarian governance, and imperial intervention. Fanon's analysis remains indispensable for identifying these evolving structures—and for imagining how they can be dismantled.
Spanning decades of political writing and revolutionary reflection, the collection includes the original preface to the 1963 Arabic edition of The Wretched of the Earth, translated into English for the first time, alongside essays that trace Fanon's influence on successive generations of struggle.
Essential reading for activists, students, and anyone seeking to understand the unfinished project of decolonization, The Wretched of the Earth Want the Fall of the System demonstrates why Fanon's work remains one of the most vital guides to revolutionary transformation in the twenty-first century.
Foreword – Laleh Khalili
Introduction – Philip Rizk
PART I
1. burying Fanon (poem) – Mona Kareem
2. Cause a Ripe Fruit to Burst Forth: A gaze on the neocolonial present and its dismantling – Philip Rizk
3. The Kabyle Mentality (1951) – Mohamed Sail
4. Introduction to Mahdi Amel's reading of Frantz Fanon – Ziad Kiblawi
5. The Revolutionary Thought of Frantz Fanon – Mahdi Amel
6. The Temporal Entanglements of Assia Djebar’s The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting – Philip Rizk
7. The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting – Assia Djebar
8. Hopeful Pathologies in the War for Palestine: a reply to Adam Shatz – Abdeljawwad Omar
PART II
9. latent lilies (poem) introduced & translated by Jessica Khazrik – Omnia Sabry
10. The Sea is Angry – Raghed Yousef
11. Generals to the Dustbin, Algeria will be Independent – Hamza Hamouchene
12. The Realization of People’s Sovereignty: Sudan’s Neighborhood Councils – Muzan Alneel
13. “Let us eradicate from our land and minds the seeds of neocolonial decay”: On agroecology as a strategy for dismantling (neo)colonialism – Salem Al-Azouaq, Lina Ismail, and Hadi Awada w/ Philip Rizk
14. Kafala After Fanon – Sumayya Kassamali
15. The Principle of Return – Adam HajYahia
APPENDIX
16. 1963 Editors’s Preface to Muadhibu al-ard (The Wretched of the Earth)