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


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 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

Conclusion: 'Shinga mushandi shinga! Qina msebenzi qina!' Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig

Further action

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