By Alex Callinicos Millions of people belong to trade unions and they remain the best form of defence for working people. But can we fully realise that strength?The national leadership of the NLC called off the national general strike planned for 28th September 2020 at the last minute. It also suspended the general strike in […]
Struggling Against Neoliberal Hegemony By Femi Aborisade & Drew povey While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations. One of the most important aspects that will […]
Socialism From Below WHY are so MANY Africans poor? Why do so many die from hunger and disease? Why do so many face a bleak future? The facts are stark. Across Africa, every year, at least 35 million people, including an estimated 17 to 21 million children, face serious food shortages. These crises are not […]
the geopolitical origins of capitalism Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu Pluto, 2015 By Drew Povey Karl Marx outlined how capitalism came to dominate the world, replacing the feudal and tributary modes of production in his great work Capital. For Marx, this was an international process of geopolitics, combining slavery and colonialism with class struggle. This […]
[pl_row] [pl_col col=12] [pl_text] By Tina Ndi statistics on the oppression of women are horrific, but it has not always been like this and recent changes indicate that the future can be much better. But we have to struggle together to make it so. Globally 800 women die daily in child labour, most of them […]
By Drew Povey Adam Mayer – Naija Marxisms – Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria (London: Pluto Press, 2016) If you are angry about the current state of global society, especially if you are Nigerian, you should read Naija Marxisms to learn important lessons from whose who struggled against similar challenges. As Isaac Newton said, we can […]
By Anthony Hamilton Malcolm X was an inspirational speaker, an activist and a revolutionary. He was born into poverty in 1925 in the US and his early life was shaped by racist violence: his home was firebombed when he was four and when he was six his father was found dead, probably killed by the […]
A review of The Struggle for Development by Benjamin Selwyn2017 Polity Press, by Drew Povey This is an important book that provides an alternative view to what the author calls the Anti-Poverty Consensus. That is the dominant view, propagated by the World Bank/IMF and parroted by most of the world media, that human development can […]
This pamphlet contains three interviews with Prof. Omotoye Olorode April/May 2020 Click the link below to download https://ivavalleybooks.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/
Brian Parkin finds a new introduction to Marx and Marxism combines theory with a vision of a world free of exploitation and oppression. It is commonplace in times of economic crisis and global upheaval for Karl Marx to be dug up, in order to be either blamed for what is going wrong, or often – […]
