CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA

CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA

edited by Leo Zeilig

foreword by Azwell Banda

‘This excellent collection brings us right to the cutting edge of class analysis, social struggle and socio-economic liberation in Africa. For all the progress made these last years in understanding and promoting African social-movement mobilisation during the neoliberal epoch, a missing link has been labour – and this book now fills that crucial gap.’
Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

‘This fascinating book fills a vacuum that has weakened the believers in Marxist resistance in Africa…It apty demonstrates that the solution to mass poverty and man's inhumanity to man in Africa is through resistance based on Marxism’

Joseph Akinlaya, General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum

and Natural Gas Workers, Nigeria

CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA aims to reassert the classic Marxist tradition in Africa by examining the impact of recent working class struggles. It approaches these events by critically engaging with the experience of socialists in Africa and offering a contemporary analysis of the continent. The book attempts to unite working class protest and campaigns against the current orthodoxy of neo-liberal economic policies and privatisation. In so doing, it seeks to counter current policies of austerity and globalisation, and to launch a renaissance of socialist organisation in Africa. As Marx said, the point is not just to understand the world, but to change it!

Contents

1 Marxism, class and resistance in Africa Leo Zeilig and David Seddon

2 Popular protest and class struggle in Africa: an historical overview David Seddon

3 Globalization, imperialism and popular resistance in Egypt, 1880–2000 Anne Alexander and Dave Renton

Interview with Ahmad Hussain

4 ‘There shall be no property’: trade unions, class and politics in Nigeria Jussi Viinikka

Interview with Femi Aborisade

5 Resisting the state: the trade union movement and working-class politics in Zambia, 1964–91 Miles Larmer

Interview with Austin Muneku

6 South Africa under the ANC: still bound to the chains of exploitation Peter Dwyer

Interview with Trevor Ngwane

7 Revolutionaries, resistance and crisis in Zimbabwe Munyaradzi Gwisai

Interview with Tafadzwa Choto

8 Conclusion: ‘Shinga mushandi shinga! Qina msebenzi qina!’ Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig

Publication: June 2002

Reduced price for buyers in Africa: Paperback £12.95 £9.95 plus £3.00 p&p.

ISBN 1 873797 33 8 224 pages

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