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 […]
How the West Came to Rule
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 […]
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 […]