Dear Amandla! When one reads through any of our nation's major newspapers one is bombarded with endless stories of corruption in government, the civil service and of those in power pillaging state resources. But these stories are overwhelmingly confined to...
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The Weapon of Theory- Amilcar Cabral
Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966 by Amilcal Cabral If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the...
Aspects of the International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas| by Walter Rodney
Political conferences of the oppressed invariably attract a variety of responses - varying from cynical conviction that they are an utter waste of time to naïve optimism that they will change the face of the world. In actuality, popular struggle continues from day to...
Corruption and Class Discontent: The Contours of Bourgeois Political Forms and State-Formation | by Maya John
Early this year a relatively unknown 74-year old Gandhian, Kisan Baburao Hazare (also known as Anna Hazare), shot to fame for raising a campaign against corruption. For days on end, Anna Hazare haunted our television sets, and details of his campaign greeted us every...
Marxism and feminism: ‘unhappy marriage’ or creative partnership? | by Jacklyn Cock
Introductionthe relationship betWeen MarxisM and feMinisM has been a long-standing preoccupation among progressive feminist analysts. In an influential intervention published 30 years ago, Heidi Hartmann complained that the relationship between Marxism and feminism...
The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development: The Theory of Permanent Revolution | by Michael Löwy
Whenever the inherent contradictions of the capitalist system have developed into an overt crisis, the unevenness of capitalist development has acted as a sort of pressure-release mechanism. In our neoliberal times, the unevenness can be seen on many levels – from the...




