African situation?

[GracchusBabeuf]

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[AK]

Come to think of it, I've not heard of any African comrades on RL.

[bricolage]

My knowledge is limited to South Africa. At the moment there is a transport workers strike going on.
The World Cup has been a big problem, being used to evict in the name of 'urban regeneration'. Community movements Abahlali baseMjondolo and Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign have been active here.

Don't listen to anyone that tells you the South African Communist Party should be looked at, they are state stooges wholly complicit in post-apartheid desecration of the South African people.


Come to think of it, I've not heard of any African comrades on RL.

Internet proliferation probably has something to do with it.

[maskerade]

There is also the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta...I don't know if I would call them revolutionary, but they certainly have leftist tendencies - war against Shell, with their objectives being to give control of the natural resources to the people of the Niger Delta. They believe - and rightly so I would say - that the people of the niger delta haven't benefitted at all from Shell's exploitation and destruction of the area, and they are acting to change this.

But, like I said, I don't think they have any revolutionary socialist agenda. Simply just fighting capitalism's globalisation

[GracchusBabeuf]

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[NoOneIsIllegal]

Check out the book Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa. It was written by various African Marxists covering several different countries (Zambia, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, etc.) It's been a while, I need to refresh my mind, but in some of these countries, such as Nigeria, the working class is small, but is effective to a certain degree with general strikes. They have potential.

[bricolage]

Is the revolutionary legacy of the anti-colonial struggles led by Lumumba, Nkrumah, Fanon and others remembered anywhere in Africa today?

I don't know really, although I'm pretty sure Nkrumah is popular in Ghana and many other countries. I know know nothing about Lumumba.
I imagine Fanon is still remembered quite a lot, there has actually been quite a lot of academic interest in him in South Africa, largely from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Centre for Civil Society, how this relates to on the ground struggle though I don't know. I'd guess his premonitions of how the post-colonial state would end up selling out the dreams it promoted lends itself to present day resistance in Africa.