The downward spiral of retrenchments and increased insecurity has been going on in Kaduna for two decades now. In the early 2000s, three of the four largest textile mills in the city were shut down.
Rethinking Development – Marxist Perspectives – Ronaldo Munck (2021)
The latest book by this prolific and critical Marxist writer considers the issue of economic development across the Global South.
In the Red Corner – The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui
Mike Gonzalez, a long-time member of the SWP in Britain, provides an introduction to the politics of José Carlos. That demonstrates how Marxism retains its core approach whilst being adapted to the realities of the Global South in Peru.
FIDEL CASTRO : His Political Origin, Rule and Legacy
Cubans have taken to the streets in cities across the country over the last week, in a wave of rare public protests to express their frustration with rising prices, falling wages, the United States embargo, and the failings of the island’s long-standing communist government to address its economic challenges.
Workers, unions and global capitalism : lessons from India – Rohini Hensman
The book provides an excellent view of capitalism and how trades unions can fight it – in the Global South. Many of the issues Rohini raises from a South Asian vantage point are equally true for Nigeria.
THERE WAS A COUNTRY – Chinua Achebe
There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age
Popular protest and class struggle in Africa: an historical overview
By David Seddon We all need to learn from history. This pamphlet demonstrates that popular protest and working class struggle shaped the various paths of capitalist development in Africa from the earliest times to the immediate post-independence period. It emphasises the complexity and contradictions of capitalist development in Africa, and underlines the fact that, for […]
The Political Orientation Speech
This is the basic policy speech of the Sankara revolution in 1983 in Burkina Faso. It is called the political orientation speech.
Revolutionaries, Resistance and Crisis in Zimbabwe
By Munyaradzi Gwisai Socialists in Nigeria need to learn from the experience of socialists in other African countries. The experience of socialists in Zimbabwe provides us with important lessons. How can we organise effectively in the trade unions? How should we organise in broad electrical, popular bodies like the MDC in Zimbabwe and the People’s Alternative […]
Edwin Madunagu at 75
Articles from the last year Born in Nigeria in 1946 and educated at the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos. He has taught mathematics since 1974 and is currently writing for the Guardian newspaper in Nigeria. Madunagu has, for some time, been prominent in Nigerian radical and revolutionary politics, and is the author of The Tragedy of […]