By Siobhan Brown Eleanor Marx was an important figure in the early British socialist movement. On top of being friends with the likes of William Morris and George Bernard Shaw, she edited many of her father Karl’s works, wrote on The Woman Question’ and led militant workers on strike during the New Unionism of the […]
A Rebel’s Guide to Alexandra Kollantai
By Emma Davis Alexandra Kollontai was a revolutionary socialist who devoted her life to the fight for women’s liberation and human freedom. She played a prominent role in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Kollontai located the struggle for the liberation of women at the centre of the fight for socialism. A committed internationalist, […]
Struggle for Development
By Benjamin Selwyn The central objective of human development should be to alleviate the condition of the world’s poor. The dominant economic ideas of the last 30 years, Neoliberalism, have failed in this regard. State led development appears as the natural and obvious alternative to neoliberalism. Many socialists think that we should use the state […]
Problems of Socialism
The Nigerian Challenge By Edwin Madunagu To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, socialists have to learn from history. This pamphlet, written nearly 40 years ago provides important insights to Nigerian history and the challenges that socialists faced then and now. How do we grow so that we are better able to influence developments […]
Post Independence Growth, The Lost Decades and Africa Rising
The Economic History of Sub-Saharan Africa By Biodun Olamosu & Drew Povey Sub-Saharan Africa is huge. Its area is larger than that of China, USA and India combined or five times that of the 28 countries of the European Union. Its population, at nearly 900 million, is also getting on for twice as much as […]
Liberating Life: Woman’s Revolution
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 […]
Women in Twentieth Century Africa
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 […]
Socialists in The Trade Unions
By Alex Callinicos Millions of people belong to trade unions and they remain the best form of defence for working people. But can we fully realise that strength?The national leadership of the NLC called off the national general strike planned for 28th September 2020 at the last minute. It also suspended the general strike in […]
MASS STRIKES IN NIGERIA: 2000-2016
Struggling Against Neoliberal Hegemony By Femi Aborisade & Drew povey While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations. One of the most important aspects that will […]
A NEW PHASE OF AFRICAN LIBERATION
Socialism From Below WHY are so MANY Africans poor? Why do so many die from hunger and disease? Why do so many face a bleak future? The facts are stark. Across Africa, every year, at least 35 million people, including an estimated 17 to 21 million children, face serious food shortages. These crises are not […]