Global South

Every problem provides an opportunity for a progressive to work on eradicating the problem in the drive to move society forward for the better. In this case, the problem is the vacuum created by the passing away of Professor Samir Amin.

He walked in the corridors of our brand-new National Research Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa—INEP) in Bissau, as if he knew the place for a long time.

Dear comrades, Dear activists, Dear workers,

Marx is a giant thinker, not for the 19th century, but even more for understanding our contemporary time. No other attempt to develop an understanding of society has been as fertile.

Marx is a giant thinker, not for the 19th century, but even more for understanding our contemporary time. No other attempt to develop an understanding of society has been as fertile.

1. The financial facets of globalisation

Samir Amin stands within the intellectual canon of African revolutionary thinkers whose gargantuan and prodigious lifetime’s work is invaluable to all human beings who seek to eliminate the predatory, devastating impact of capitalism in our times.

“We are thus at the point where in order to open up a new field for the expansion of capital (modernisation of agricultural production) it would be necessary to destroy – in human terms – entire societies.

It was 1973. My sequel to the first essay Tanzania: The Silent Class Struggle, called “The class struggle continues” (which later became Class Struggles in Tanzania) was making rounds of comrades “underground” in a mimeograph form.

Rhyming along the sound of guitar

Cascades my ode to Comrade Samir

You have left us, Dear Samir, but your spirit remains

Whilst I do my yogic meditation to ancient gods

Next to me I see you musing in revolutionary study