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 […]
The Fight for Women’s Rights
Marxism: Intellectual Ammunition for Nigerian Trade Unionists
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 […]
A Rebel’s Guide to Malcolm x
By Anthony Hamilton Malcolm X was an inspirational speaker, an activist and a revolutionary. He was born into poverty in 1925 in the US and his early life was shaped by racist violence: his home was firebombed when he was four and when he was six his father was found dead, probably killed by the […]
Collective Struggles and Labour-Led Development
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 […]
Interviews With ‘The People’s Pedagogue’ Omotoye Olorode
This pamphlet contains three interviews with Prof. Omotoye Olorode April/May 2020 Click the link below to download https://ivavalleybooks.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/
Book Review: Who Was Karl Marx?
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 – […]
We Cannot Fight Corruption Without Fighting Neoliberalism
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 […]
A Rebel’s Guide to Trosky
Leon Trotsky was a central figure in the decisive event of the 20th century, the Russian Revolution of 1917. This is a short, accessible introduction to Trotsky’s life and ideas.