"Cutting-edge."--Patrick Bond "This fascinating book fills a vacuum that has weakened the believers in Marxist resistance in Africa."--Joseph Iranola Akinlaja,

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

Spanning more than two thousand years of African history, from the African Iron Age to the collapse of colonialism and the beginnings of independence, Hosea Jaf

Social movements and the working class in Africa -- An epoch of uprisings : social movements in postcolonial Africa, 1945/98 -- Cracks in the monolith : social

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists, Fractured Militancy tells the story of postapartheid South Africa from the perspectiv