Briefing on the Minimum Wage
We all know that trade union members are poorer now than they were 5, 10 or 20 years ago. And yet the corrupt elite have never been richer – as…[...]
Chido Onumah, Time To Reclaim Nigeria: Essays (2001-2011) Nigeria lies Prostrate Today Because of The Action, and Sometimes Inaction, of Nigerians
Chido Onumah's "Time to Reclaim Nigeria: Essays (2001-2011)", tells the heartbreaking story of the hope and promise of Nigeria for its people and the familiar saga of betrayal by Nigeria's…[...]
The Women’s Revolution: Russia 1905–1917Judy Cox
The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led by prominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for…[...]
Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig, African Struggles Today: Social Movements since Independence (Haymarket, 2012)
– electronic and paper copies are available from Iva Valley Books African Struggles Today seeks to explain the key role that mass social movements have played in the history of…[...]
African Civilisations – Graham Connah, 2016
We need to understand the past if we are to try and change the future. Chapters 6 and 7 of this book provide a summary of the current knowledge of…[...]
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Oxford World’s Classics) – Robert Tressell
Tressell's novel is about survival on the underside of Britain in the early 20th Century, about exploitative employment when the only safety nets are charity, workhouse, and grave. Following the…[...]
Decolonialisation, an essay by Walter Rodney
This essay was written by the author of “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” in the late 1970s after the independence of Angola and Mozambique, but before the liberation of Southern Africa,…[...]
The Future Socialist Society
The Future Socialist Society By John Molyneux What do we want from socialism? How will we deal with our problems under socialism? How will X, Y or Z be organised?…[...]
Marxism and the National Question
Marxism and the National Question Alex Callinicos (1989) Introduction (Drew Povey 2022) Marxists are famous for declaring the right of oppressed peoples to self-determination. In the early 20th Century, Lenin…[...]
No Shortcuts Organising for Power: In the New Gilded Age
No Shortcuts Organising for Power by Jane F. McAlevey In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change, to outlast…[...]