Class Struggle And Resistance In Africa

This collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent.

Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This book reveals the nature and extent of the class struggle in Africa, and sets it in the broad context of the African Revolution and the world socialist revolution. 86pp; 1 map

Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations in relating both to the attendant inequality of globalization and to grassroots struggles for social justice. Peter Dwyer is a tutor in economics at Ruskin College in Oxford. Leo Zeilig Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Monograph on politics and social class in Tanzania - discusses the marxist political theory of class struggle and its application to developing countries, particularly in a context of underdevelopment and dependent economic relations (role of developed countries), and covers bureaucracy and the impact of international capitalism, etc. References.