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Revolutionary pressures in Nigeria

Posted on 19th December 2020 by International Socialism

For several weeks in October 2020, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Nigeria to protest against police brutality. The protests came after news circulated that the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had killed a young man… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Article Africa, Nigeria, Police, Revolution

Class, power and revolution in Sudan

Posted on 28th March 2020 by International Socialism

From Algiers to Beirut and Baghdad to Khartoum, it appears that revolution is once again “the choice of the people”—as a slogan echoed by tens of thousands on protests in Sudan puts it.1 Meanwhile, the temperature of social and political… Continue Reading →

Article Africa, Arab revolution, development, strategy, the working class

Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

In the first ten years of independence in Africa, even leaders of states that were not explicitly Marxist expressed an allegiance to socialism and an admiration for the Soviet Union. This included many famous leaders of independent Africa: Gamal Abdel… Continue Reading →

Article Africa, Russian Revolution

Zimbabwe after Mugabe

Posted on 19th December 2017 by Camilla

“This is the way the world ends,” wrote T S Eliot in “The Hollow Men”. “Not with a bang but a whimper”. Well the world didn’t come to an end in Zimbabwe on 21 November 2017, when Robert Mugabe resigned… Continue Reading →

Article Africa, Zimbabwe

Who are the Commission for Africa?

Posted on 10th January 2017 by Camilla

The commission was chaired by Bob Geldof and headed by prime minister Tony Blair, chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown, and minister for international development Hilary Benn. It also included: Michel Camdessus, who as managing director of the IMF until… Continue Reading →

Article Africa

Africa: ‘There is fire here’

Posted on 10th January 2017 by Camilla

Towards the end of the 1980s and early 1990s strikes, riots and demonstrations forced 19 one-party states in Africa to institutionalise a democratic opposition. But the headlong rush into neo-liberalism and continued structural adjustment policies somewhat de-֊legitimised the ‘birth of… Continue Reading →

Article Africa, neoliberalism, Strikes

Questioning failed growth in Africa

Posted on 4th April 2016 by Camilla

A review of Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (Zed Books, 2015), £14.99 Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong ­provides a critical review of the recent economic history of Africa. Morton Jerven argues that, for most of the… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Africa, Economics

Africa rising? The economic history of sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on 12th April 2015 by ISJ

Sub-Saharan Africa is huge. Its area is larger than that of China, the United States and India combined or five times that of the 28 countries of the European Union. Its population, at over 930 million, is also getting on… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Africa

Tony Cliff: Deflected permanent revolution in Africa

Posted on 23rd April 2010 by ISJ

If Tony Cliff credited the theory of permanent revolution as Trotsky’s most outstanding and original contribution to Marxism, then Cliff’s own revisions to the theory in 1963 were similarly remarkable. An appraisal of Cliff’s work, ten years after his death,… Continue Reading →

Analysis Africa, Tony Cliff

Aid, governance and exploitation

Posted on 27th June 2005 by ISJ

In the era where there is unlimited money for the war against Iraq, there is not enough money to save millions of lives in the Third World. The richer the rulers of most powerful countries have become, the less they… Continue Reading →

Analysis Africa, Aid

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