Fw: [anarchy_africa] New book: CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA

Joe R. Golowka joeg at ieee.org
Mon Aug 19 01:00:07 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "legacyofcolonialism" <msbrown at cwcom.net> To: <anarchy_africa at yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 6:22 PM Subject: [anarchy_africa] New book: CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA


> not sure notice of publication of the following book has gone out on
> this list already, some of you will already know about it.
> M
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> CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA
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> 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
>
>
> CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA aims to reassert a radical
> tradition in African studies by examining the transformative impact
> of recent social movements on the African continent. It approaches
> these movements by critically engaging with the experience of Marxism
> in Africa and offering a contemporary Marxist analysis of the
> continent. The media increasingly fall back on racist notions of
> a 'heart of darkness' in Africa, at the same time as the academic
> left dismisses Marxism as Eurocentric. This book attempts to address
> these problems by uniting the continent under a class analysis. In so
> doing, it seeks to counter recent policies of austerity and
> globalization, and to launch a renaissance of radical thinking in
> Africa.
>
>
> Contents
>
> 1 Marxism, class and resistance in Africa Leo Zeilig and David Seddon
>
> 2 Popular protest and class struggle in Africa: an historical
> overview, by David Seddon
>
> 3 Globalization, imperialism and popular resistance in Egypt, 1880-
> 2000, by Anne Alexander and Dave Renton
>
> Interview with Ahmad Hussain
>
> 4 'There shall be no property': trade unions, class and politics in
> Nigeria, by Jussi Viinikka
>
> Interview with Femi Aborisade
>
> 5 Resisting the state: the trade union movement and working-class
> politics in, Zambia, 1964-91, by Miles Larmer
>
> Interview with Austin Muneku
>
> 6 South Africa under the ANC: still bound to the chains of
> exploitation, by Peter Dwyer
>
> Interview with Trevor Ngwane
>
> 7 Revolutionaries, resistance and crisis in Zimbabwe, Munyaradzi
> Gwisai (Interview with Tafadzwa Choto)
>
> Conclusion: 'Shinga mushandi shinga! Qina msebenzi qina!' Peter Dwyer
> and Leo Zeilig
>
> Further action
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> Paperback £12.95 ISBN 1 873797 33 8
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> 224 pages Hardback £25.00 ISBN 1 873797 34 6
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> Available from: New Clarion Press, 5 Church Row, Gretton, Cheltenham
> GL54 5HG, UK
> tel./fax: 01242 620623
> www.newclarionpress.co.uk
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