In this engaging and accessible introduction, Alex Callinicos demonstrates that Marx’s ideas hold an enduring relevance for today’s activists fighting against poverty, inequality, oppression, environmental destruction, and the numerous other injustices of the capitalist system. Alex was born in Zimbabwe, but is based in Britain and a leader member of the Socialist Workers Party.
This pamphlet only provides an introduction to employment and labour law. More advice is available from your trade union offices or a lawyer specialising in this area.Trades union are needed to ensure that the protections available from the law are actually implemented. You are far more likely to win your case promptly if you take […]
The poor majority have suffered major attacks on their living standards in the last few months. The price of petrol tripled, transport costs doubled and officially food inflation was over 30% over the year to the end of September. However, the trades unions have so far failed to provide the necessary robust response to these […]
The Government’s answer to escalating tuition fees in tertiary education institutions is its proposal for student loans. This pamphlet shows that this is a scam that will still remove tertiary education from the poor masses. “The students loan policy is based on a lie which is that Nigeria is too poor to fund public education, […]
We all know that trade union members are poorer now than they were 5, 10 or 20 years ago. And yet the corrupt elite have never been richer – as demonstrated, for example, by the monetisation of the APC and PDP presidential primaries.According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), food prices are now more […]
The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led by prominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for ‘bread and herrings’, which sparked the February Revolution, in most historical accounts of this momentous period, women are too often relegated to the footnotes. Judy […]
Tressell’s novel is about survival on the underside of Britain in the early 20th Century, about exploitative employment when the only safety nets are charity, workhouse, and grave. Following the fortunes of a group of painters and decorators and their families, and the attempts to rouse their political will by the Socialist visionary Frank Owen, […]
This essay was written by the author of “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” in the late 1970s after the independence of Angola and Mozambique, but before the liberation of Southern Africa, including Zimbabwe and then South Africa from Europe rule. Walter argues that the people in this area giving their lives for liberation were “not principally […]
What do we want from socialism? How will we deal with our problems under socialism?
The short pamphlet “Marxism and the National Question” written by Alex Callinicos a leading British Marxist, who was born in Zimbabwe, explains the general approach to this issue by Marxists. In the introduction, we try to apply these principals to the current situation in Nigeria and conclude that socialists should not support independence for any ethnic group or region.
