Schlagwort: Africa

  • James Long: Africa: The continent capitalism abandoned

    [Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 20-24] In the 1950s, with African nationalism at its height, the buzzword in Africa was „development‘. Since that dream of growing prosperity, Africa, despite its immense natural wealth, has become a continent beset by famine, drought, civil war and brutal dictatorships. What went wrong? James Long reports. „Africa’s…

  • Martin Cock: Capitalism’s lost continent

    [Militant International Review, No. 58, August 1994, p. 8-12] The Rwandan horror, argues Martin Cock, is a symptom of a wider African crisis. Within the space of a few horrific months, the image of Rwanda has changed from Gorillas in the Mist to blood-letting, massacres and tribalism. Up to 500,000 people have been killed since…

  • The Permanent Revolution Today

    You speak about the new politics of imperialism, the national and ethnic problems, the question of democratic rights, the problems of the struggle for socialism in different countries, including semi-colonial countries. The last development of the theory of the permanent revolution was at the end of the 1920s in the polemics with the Comintern. But…