Incorporates a wide range of thoughts of writers on the Left.

African Studies Review

John Saul's work is provocative, sometimes uncomfortable, but always forward-looking and constructive intervention.

Colin Leys, scholar and author

John Saul is one of Canada's most persuasive pubic commentators on Southern African politics. (He also) has been enormously influential in academic circles, in part because he demonstrates how a flexible and non-dogmatic Marxism can bring fresh insights.

Jonathan Crush, Queen's University,

[Saul's] greatest contribution (has been) sharing ideas, criticizing and giving advice -reminding us that we should base our ideology on the concrete realities of our country and people, not on ready-made manuals imported from the Soviet Union; that we should always ensure the participation of the people in decision-making, and make socialism not just a slogan but a real objective.

Jorge Rebelo, poet, long-time Frelimo (Mozambique) activist, and cabinet minister in the first government of a liberated Mozambique

[Saul's] writings are all about instilling hope and learning from failure…. He is in a sort of underground, alternate Canadian tradition to the internationalism of Lester Pearson, (one that) includes Dr. Norman Bethune who worked in China in the 1930s and Dr. Chris Giannou today.

Rick Salutin, leading Canadian author and columnist, writing in The Toronto Globe

John Saul is a scholar activist who has devoted his working life to participation on the intellectual front-line of the '30 years war' in Southern Africa.

Victoria Brittain, journalist and writer