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Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa

Author : Leo Zeilig
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 193185968X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa written by Leo Zeilig and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cutting-edge."--Patrick Bond "This fascinating book fills a vacuum that has weakened the believers in Marxist resistance in Africa."--Joseph Iranola Akinlaja, general secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Nigeria "[An] excellent collection."--Socialist Review "Read this for inspiration, for the sense that we are part of a world movement."--Socialist Worker (London) "Grab this book. Highly recommended."--Tokumbo Oke, Bookmarks This collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent. Employing Marxist theory to address the postcolonial problems of several different countries, experts analyze such issues as the renewal of Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt, debt relief, trade union movements, and strike action. Includes interviews with leading African socialists and activists. With contributions from Leo Zeilig, David Seddon, Anne Alexander, Dave Renton, Ahmad Hussein, Jussi Vinnikka, Femi Aborisade, Miles Larmer, Austin Muneku, Peter Dwyer, Trevor Ngwane, Munyaradzi Gwisai, Tafadzwa Choto, and Azwell Banda. Leo Zeilig coordinated the independent media center in Zimbabwe during the presidential elections of 2002 and, prior to this, worked as a lecturer at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. He then worked for three years as a lecturer and researcher at Brunel University, moving later to the Center of Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg. He has written on the struggle for democratic change, social movements, and student activism in sub-Saharan Africa. Zeilig is co-author of The Congo: Plunder and Resistance 1880-2005.

South Africa’s Political Crisis

Author : Alexander Beresford
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137436597
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book South Africa’s Political Crisis written by Alexander Beresford and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's current political upheavals are the most significant since the transition from apartheid. Its powerful trade unions are playing a central role, and the political direction they take will have huge significance for how we understand the role of labour movements in struggles for social justice in the twenty-first century.

The Class Struggle in Latin America

Author : James Petras
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351763105
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Class Struggle in Latin America written by James Petras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts and changing dynamics of the class struggle have impacted on the rise, demise and resurgence of neo-liberal regimes in Latin America. This innovative book offers a unique perspective on the evolving dynamics of class struggle, engaging both the destructive forces of capitalist development and those seeking to consolidate the system and preserve the status quo, alongside the efforts of popular resistance concerned with the destructive ravages of capitalism on humankind, society and the global environment. Using theoretical observations based on empirical and historical case studies, this book argues that the class struggle remains intrinsically linked to the march of capitalist development. At a time when post-neo-liberal regimes in Latin America are faltering, this supplementary text provides a guide to the economic and political dynamics of capitalist development in the region, which will be invaluable to students and researchers of international development, anthropology and sociology, as well as those with an interest in Latin American politics and development.

Proletarianization and Class Struggle in Africa

Author : Bernard Magubane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proletarianization and Class Struggle in Africa written by Bernard Magubane and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid

Author : Alan Wieder
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673563
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid written by Alan Wieder and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced repression and exile. Their contributions to the liberation struggle, as individuals and as a couple, are undeniable. Ruth agitated tirelessly for the overthrow of apartheid, first in South Africa and then from abroad, and Joe directed much of the armed struggle carried out by the famous Umkhonto we Sizwe. Only one of them, however, would survive to see the fall of the old regime and the founding of a new, democratic South Africa. This book, the first extended biography of Ruth First and Joe Slovo, is a remarkable account of one couple and the revolutionary moment in which they lived. Alan Wieder’s deeply researched work draws on the usual primary and secondary sources but also an extensive oral history that he has collected over many years. By weaving the documentary record together with personal interviews, Wieder portrays the complexities and contradictions of this extraordinary couple and their efforts to navigate a time of great tension, upheaval, and revolutionary hope.

Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa

Author : Leo Zeilig
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608460568
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa written by Leo Zeilig and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent.

Class Struggle

Author : Domenico Losurdo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349706604
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle written by Domenico Losurdo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within Marx and Engels’ thought. As Losurdo argues, class struggle is often misunderstood as exclusively the struggle of the poor against the rich, of the humble against the powerful. It is an interpretation that is dear to populism, one that supposes a binary logic that closes its eyes to complexity and inclines towards the celebration of poverty as a place of moral excellence. This book, however, shows the theory of class struggle is a general theory of social conflict. Each time, the most adverse social conflicts are intertwined in different ways. A historical situation always emerges with specific and unique characteristics that necessitate serious examination, free of schematic and biased analysis. Only if it breaks away from populism can Marxism develop the ability to interpret and change the world.

Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle

Author : Robert Ovetz
Publisher : Wildcat
ISBN 13 : 9780745340845
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle written by Robert Ovetz and published by Wildcat. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new study looking at the catalysing role of workers' inquiries in the rebirth of a global labour movement from below

Predicaments of Knowledge

Author : Suren Pillay
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776149084
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Predicaments of Knowledge written by Suren Pillay and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predicaments of Knowledge explores the difficult questions South African universities face after apartheid: Is there a difference between Africanising a university and decolonising a university? What about differences between deracialising and decolonising the curricula taught at universities across disciplines? Through a range of reflections on race, language, colonial, postcolonial and decolonial knowledge projects from Africa and Latin America, this book explores the pitfalls and possibilities that face a post-apartheid generation inventing the future of knowledge. The distinctions between Africanisation, decolonisation and deracialisation are often conflated in the political demands put to universities. Suren Pillay emphasises all three as important but distinct imperatives. If an intervention is undertaken with the aim of decolonising the university while actually addressing deracialisation, it can undermine the effort to decolonise. Similarly, if an initiative to Africanise the university does not address decolonisation, both processes can be undermined. Drawing on more than two and a half decades of the author’s participation in these debates, these essays aim to intervene in and elucidate questions and predicaments, rather than offering blue prints; they are dialogical in spirit even when polemical in tone. In conversation with existing continental African and Latin American experiences, they offer incisive reflections on current South African debates.

Classes in Contemporary Capitalism

Author : Nicos Poulantzas
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788732022
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Classes in Contemporary Capitalism written by Nicos Poulantzas and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicos Poulantzas’s third major work is a pioneering survey of some of the most fundamental, yet least studied, aspects of the class structure of advanced capitalist societies today. The book starts with a general theoretical essay that for the first time seriously explores the distinction between the “agents” and “positions” of capitalist relations of production, and seeks to avoid the typical errors of either functionalism or historicism. It also provides a polemical reconsideration of the problem of the “nation state” as a political unit today, and its relationship to the internationalization of capital. Finally, and most originally, Poulantzas develops a long and powerful analysis of the much-abused concept of the “petty-bourgeoisie.” In this, he scrupulously distinguishes between the “traditional” categories of petty-bourgeoisie—shopkeepers, artisans, small peasants—and the “new” categories of clerical workers, supervisors, and salaried personnel in modern industry and commerce. At the same time he demonstrates the reasons why a unitary conceptualization of their class position is possible. The difficult question of the definition of “productive” and “unproductive” labor within Marx’s own account of the capitalist mode of production is subjected to a novel and radical reinterpretation. The political oscillations peculiar to each form of petty-bourgeoisie and especially their characteristic reactions to the industrial proletariat, are cogently assessed. Poulantzas ends his work with a reminder that the actions and options of the petty-bourgeoisie are critical to any successful struggle by the working class, which must secure the alliance of important sections of the petty-bourgeoisie if the fateful experience of Chile is not to recur elsewhere tomorrow. Combining empirical and theoretical materials throughout, Classes in Contemporary Capitalism represents a notable achievement in the development of Marxist social science and political thought.

Class Struggle in Africa

Author : Kwame Nkrumah
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9780901787323
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle in Africa written by Kwame Nkrumah and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1970-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contesting Transformation

Author : Marcelle C. Dawson
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745335025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Transformation written by Marcelle C. Dawson and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-apartheid South Africa. Much of the writing on these movements was produced when they were at their peak, whereas this collection takes stock of the subsequent period of difficulty and complexity. The contributors consider how these different movements conceive of transformation and assess the extent to which these understandings challenge the narrative of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). From township revolts to labour struggles, Contesting Transformation is the definitive critical survey of the state of popular struggle in South Africa today.

Foreign Affairs Research Special Papers Available

Author : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Affairs Research Special Papers Available written by Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foreign Affairs Research Papers Available

Author : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Affairs Research Papers Available written by Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Precariat

Author : Guy Standing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755637097
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Precariat written by Guy Standing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our elderly...these are The Precariat. Guy Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists. The rise of zero hours contracts, encouraged by fat cat corporations as risk-free employment, and by silicon valley as a way of outsourcing costs and responsibility, has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. At the same time, in its experience of lockdown, the western world is realizing the true value of these nurses, carers and key workers. The answer? The return of income security and meaningful work - the principles 20th century capitalism was built on. By making the fears and desires of the Precariat central to economic thinking, Standing shows how concepts like Basic Income are not just desirable but inevitable, and plots the way to a better future.

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

Author : Issa G. Shivji
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1870784022
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Human Rights in Africa written by Issa G. Shivji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 The dominant discourse

Popular Struggles in South Africa

Author : Robin Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040012167
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Popular Struggles in South Africa written by Robin Cohen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Popular Struggles or One Struggle?’ Originally published in 1988 shortly after the miners’ strike in South Africa of 1987, this book begins with a strongly argued and seminal discussion of this question by William Cobbett and Robin Cohen. The book had an urgency and relevance at its time of original publication, but many of the themes it discusses remain as relevant today. Nearly all the contributors were close to the sites of encounter and resistance they described, but at the same time they and the editors place the individual cases within the historical context.