by Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) Edited by Daphna Thier Overworked? Underpaid? Frustrated with your boss? This guide, based on the collective experience of organizers and workers in non-unionized workplaces, is a critical tool to help you and your coworkers organize for justice at work. Unite and Win covers the core elements of organizing at work — developing […]
All governors now have plenty of money to develop their states and to pay a decent salary to all the workers. Their oil money, for example, has increased massively in the last couple of years. The problem is that they are spending the state’s money on the wrong things – that is when they are […]
Negotiating the implementation of the new minimum wage will not be a formal orsimple matter. We have to win the best possible increase for our members. We have toavoid this process taking years.The NLC Secretariat in each state needs to ensure, through vigorous negotiations, thatthe new wage is implemented in all public and private sector […]
The police were responsible for murdering perhaps 40 people during the protests in early August. They arrested perhaps 2,000 people and many were held un-constitutionally for well over 48 hours. During this time many were beaten and tortured, some for days. This was to extract written confessions and names of others to be arrested. This […]
By Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock (2023) From waste collectors in Mumbai fighting for safer working conditions to tech workers in Silicon Valley demanding more control over their work, people everywhere are getting organised. Talking to workers in Britain, the US, India, Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and across Europe, Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock bring […]
The years since Karl Marx’s death have seen the emergence of movements, organizations and governments declaring themselves to be “Marxist.” How can we make sense of this development? This short book is an attempt to untangle these “Marxisms,” to establish criteria for evaluating claims to stand within the Marxist tradition, to examine the conflicting claims […]
These leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations in relating both to the attendant inequality of globalization and […]
A hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Lenin remains a world historical figure of immense stature – but also a highly contested one. In Lenin for Today, John Molyneux rejects the conventional view that Lenin had a dictatorial attitude to working people and thus paved the way for Stalinism.Instead, as global capitalism staggers from crisis […]
Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has developed considerably in Nigeria. Long gone are the days when Marxism meant imported pamphlets and a rootless foreign ideology. The history of “Naija” or Nigerian Marxism is also that of the country’s labor movement, its feminist movement, its social thought, and its political economy. Drawn from three years of […]
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the ideas of Karl Marx, capitalism’s greatest critic. In this second edition of Unravelling Capitalism, Joseph Choonara brings up to date his introduction to Marx’s approach in order to outline how Marx’s ideas can be applied to the days. Joseph was born in South Africa and is […]
