Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series, and is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project and a democratic eco-socialist. Ruth Ntlokotse is the President of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) and Deputy President of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (Numsa). Hawzhin Azeez is a Kurdish academic, activist and poet who spent close to four years in the Rojava region as a participant in the rebuilding and reconstruction of Kobane. Asanda Benya is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Christine Bischoff works as a researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Jane Cherry is the executive manager at the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre in Johannesburg. She is also an activist and organiser in the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and the Climate Justice Charter Movement. Jacklyn Cock is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a research associate of the university’s Society, Work and Politics Institute. Samantha Hargreaves is the founder and director of the WoMin African Alliance, which works to challenge the destructive impacts of a patriarchal extractivist development model. Inge Konik is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and an associate editor for the journal Environmental Humanities. Jane Mbithi-Dikgole is a lecturer and research supervisor at the South African College of Applied Psychology. Courtney Morgan is a campaigner for the African Climate Reality Project. Sonia Phalatse is a feminist economist researching and writing at the intersection of climate and economic justice. Busi Sibeko is an economist and researcher whose work has focused on macroeconomic policy and who co-chaired the Budget Justice Coalition in South Africa. Dineo Skosana is a doctoral student in politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her scholarly interests span indigenous politics, governance, policy, culture and heritage, and land claims.