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 […]
This book is an inclusive commentary on how the Fourth Republic, which started on a high note, has descended into a grey zone of “chop-I-chop” politics, with a bleak future for the average Nigerian.
by Abdullah Öcalan Published 2013 by Translation: International Initiative Abdullah Öcalan is the Nelson Mandela of the Kurds in Turkey. He has been imprisoned by the Turkish Government since he was kidnapped from Kenya in 1999 when he was 50. Since then, he has been held, mainly in solitary confinement, in the island prison complex […]
By Iris Berger (2016) Cambridge University Press. A book review by Tina Ndi Africa provides examples of some of the most horrific rape, violence and oppression suffered by women. But also of great hope in terms of the collective struggle by women, supported by some men, to build a new society where women and men […]
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 […]
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 […]
