Category: Iva Valley Free Pamphlets

There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age

By David Seddon We all need to learn from history. This pamphlet demonstrates that popular protest and working class struggle shaped the various paths of capitalist development in Africa from the earliest times to the immediate post-independence period. It emphasises the complexity and contradictions of capitalist development in Africa, and underlines the fact that, for […]

By Munyaradzi Gwisai Socialists in Nigeria need to learn from the experience of socialists in other African countries. The experience of socialists in Zimbabwe provides us with important lessons. How can we organise effectively in the trade unions?  How should we organise in broad electrical, popular bodies like the MDC in Zimbabwe and the People’s Alternative […]

Articles from the last year Born in Nigeria in 1946 and educated at the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos. He has taught mathematics since 1974 and is currently writing for the Guardian newspaper in Nigeria. Madunagu has, for some time, been prominent in Nigerian radical and revolutionary politics, and is the author of The Tragedy of […]

More than seventy years have passed since Zionist militias began the process of ethnic cleansing which would force over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and clear the way for the construction of the state of Israel.  This process continues today.  It was the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem that sparked the current rise in violence […]

Israel is a racist state, similar to the way that Apartheid South Africa was organised.  The West Bank and Gaza Strip are like the South African Bantustans.  Jews from anywhere in the world are free to live in Israel as full citizens.  Palestinians have been thrown off their land and are currently being cleared from […]

Islamic Fundamentalism, Class and Revolution By Chris Harman Islamic fundamentalism has emerged as the ideology that Western politicians and media pundits most like to hate. The kind of abuse once reserved for ‘Communism’ is now diredcted at the Islamic movements which threaten to destabilise key areas of Western influence in the Middle East and beyond. […]

The growth of a global justice movement in recent years has seen an increased interest in the radical critique of capitalism laid out by Karl Marx. This book offers a short, accessible introduction to the range of Marx’s ideas; from his analysis of what drives corporate globalisation to his discussion of if and how human […]

By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto is a political text by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, aimed at both developing the theory of communism and engaging readers to take up its cause. First published in 1848, the book offers a detailed critique of capitalism, a spirited defense of communism, and practical suggestions […]

By Sally Campbell Rosa Luxemburg was one of the key leaders of the German revolutionary left until her murder by right wing militiamen in 1919 at the height of the attempted revolution. A young, Polish, Jewish woman, she had fearlessly taken on the theoretical giants of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in defence of […]