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 […]
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, […]
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The summary of the latest research provided in these two chapters from this book also show that West Africans led the world in technology until the last few thousand years and the Europeans did not gain military superiority until the late 19th Century.
Read this book and celebrate the many millions who fought back against the worst excesses of inequality, oppression and injustice across the British empire. The struggle continues!
Imperialism is the system of competition between states and companies that are based in these countries. As such it is key to our understanding of the world. Chris Harman provides an accessible introduction to this topic. Unfortunately he died in Egypt in 2009 and so is not able to provide a more up to date analysis to this topic.
This is the basic policy speech of the Sankara revolution in 1983 in Burkina Faso. It is called the political orientation speech.
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 […]
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 – […]
Alex Batubo In a recent talk Femi Falani provide a key insight for those of us who really want to fight corruption. He said that we have to take account of “the impact of the neo-liberal policies being religiously pursued by the majority of African governments”. The main reason for the increase in corruption in […]
