Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa
Walter Rodney describes the ways colonialism reversed the continent's various paths of progress in order to solidify colonial exploitation.
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Walter Rodney’s Marxist approach to African underdevelopment
An excerpt from Walter Rodney’s Decolonial Marxism, which exposes the ‘essential and unique’ role of slavery in the economic underdevelopment of a continent.
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Walter Rodney: Guerilla Intellectual | Robin D.G. Kelley & Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Robin D.G. Kelley and Kevin Ochieng Okoth join Eleanor Penny to explore the life, thought, and legacy of the academic and activist, Walter Rodney.
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A Lesson in Tenacity
Unite the Union has just produced a new video, made by Morag Livingstone, that tells the story of the Shrewsbury 24 and their struggle for justice based upon Eileen Turnbull's A Very British Conspiracy. -
Free ebook: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
On the anniversary of Walter Rodney's assassination, we've made his classic How Europe Underdeveloped Africa free to download! -
Queer Nation Manifesto: Queers Read This (1990)
An excerpt from the polemic originally circulated by members of Queer Nation as a pamphlet at the June 1990 New York Gay Pride Parade.
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The Historians' Group of the Communist Party
During the decade after the Second World War, prominent historians like Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill, Edward and Dorothy Thompson, and Raphael Samuel formed the Communist Party Historians' Group to debate and develop Marxist historical analyses. In this essay, originally published in 1978, Hobsbawm reflects on the group's work and lasting intellectual influence. -
“The world has done very little to help the Rohingya”
Interview with Kaamil Ahmed, author of I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers
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FREE EBOOK: How To Blow Up A Pipeline
Canada is burning and the Mountain Valley Pipeline was just approved in Biden's debt ceiling deal. Download Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline for FREE.
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Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’
The Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg discusses the historical method of microhistory, of which he is an eminent representative, and some themes and concepts of his work.
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No War But Class War
We must renew our understanding of our class belonging and of how we go to war – because that is the only way we are going to win. -
We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie?
Bosie became a footnote in the story: an embodiment of ‘evil twink energy’, a poisoned apple whose path through life left a wake of destruction that led to the great hero’s downfall.
