Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Colonialism

  • Naomi Byron: Burundi Killing Fields

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    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 10] The killing continues in Burundi. After three years of ‘low-level’ civil war in which around 150,000 have died, the country is slipping towards full-scale genocide. The latest cycle of violence began with the massacre of 350 Tutsis on 20 July at Bugendena, by Hutu militias. Less than…

  • James Long: Africa: The continent capitalism abandoned

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    [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…

  • Peter Taaffe: The Mods and Rockers Problem

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    (Militant No. 1, October 1964 p. 7, of course we wouldn’t use the N-word today) Peter TaaffeWalton YS If the king of Prussia once said of his peasant army, “We are lost once the bayonets begin to think,” then the capitalist class and their mouthpieces in the press must repeat this a thousand times in…

  • Lynn Walsh: Nigerian War: Heritage of Imperialism

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    [Militant No. 31, November 1967, p. 1 and 3] The Biafran army is being mopped up. Colonel Ojukwu’s promotion to General marks the defeat of his bold attempt to set up an autonomous state within the Federation of Nigeria. In the long run his intelligent, determined manoeuvres, such as the swift seizure of the Mid-West,…