This is the second of our Debate Special Issue reports on the three linked workshops which the Review of African Political Economy held in Africa in 2017-18. We have called the series 'Connections' to emphasise its distinctiveness from the more usual academic conferences. We also wanted to widen our networks across Africa and create new ones, in particular to bring together activists and scholars to reconsider the potential for radical socioeconomic transformation and engagement in the continent. This report tries to avoid academicism and to speak in an accessible way to the 'moment of Dar'. It includes contributions from the presenters at the workshop as well as accounts from two active participants -Njuki Githethwa, a scholar activist and writer from Kenya, and Tamás Gerőcs, a political economist working as a research fellow at the Institute of World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.ROAPE was founded in 1973 in the context of liberation struggles and committed itself to anti-imperialism and socialist development in Africa, as well as to broadly materialist analysis; it aims to continue in that spirit. We dedicate this project to Samir Amin, who had hoped to come to the workshop but whose illness prevented this and whose death sadly occurred as we were preparing for publication.The second of our workshops was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on 16-17 April 2018. 1 The first was held in Accra, Ghana in November 2017 to coincide with the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the 60th anniversary of Ghana's independence. The workshop in Dar coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Arusha Declaration, which heralded a bold socialist experiment. Our final workshop in this series was in

SUMMARY 100 years after the Great Russian Revolution it is time to evaluate the impact of this epoch-making event on the politics and development in the Global South. In Part I, some deliberations on its historical and geo-political aspects are provided.

In the current periocl of a »geoeconomy of competition states«, the reintegration into the international division of labour proves to be a clecisive moment for the formation of coherent conclitions throughout society of capital exploitation for the Central ancl Eastern European states. The opening towarcls the global market is funhermore inevitable clue to the economic modernization process itsclf as weil as clue to the constraint to servicing the 'olcl' ancl 'new' clebts. However, the Central ancl Eastern European states have - often following recommenclations by IMF ancl Worlcl Bank experts - liberalizecl lheir economies uncler extraordinarily clifficult conditions, extremely fast and to an extent without precedence, and surrenclered themselves nearly defenceless to the spontaneously funclioning mechanisms of the global market. The peripherization pressure from the global market which imposes the role of low-wage countries and/or extraction economies upon the transformation economies, is hardly opposed by the help from the Western industrializecl countries which is dominated by concurring interests, and is insufficient and often misled. There are a Jot of indications that the re-integration of the East into the international division of labour will take place in the shadow of socio-economic underdevelopment.

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