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Struggles in Africa?
What do you know about left-wing or anti-capitalist/anti-neoliberal struggles in sub-Saharan Africa? Other than the mining strike in South Africa, I'm pretty clueless.
I asked the same question in a reply to a thread about M-23's seizure of Goma, DRC, specifically speaking of DRC and Rwanda in the other thread.
Is there anyone with info?
There were disturbances, pretty big ones if I remember correctly, in Malawi last year, probably around June or July. I'm sure there's a thread about them or that mentions them somewhere.
It'll probably turn out to be me posting to say 'does anyone know what's happening in Malawi?' though.
http://www.revleft.com/vb/12-dead-45...ghlight=malawi
is one of the threads. but putting 'malawi' into the search box also threw up threads about Zimbabwe, Burkino Faso and Swaziland, so you never know your luck.
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Pt IV: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm
No War but the Class War
Destroy All Nations
Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC): "A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”
-James Baldwin
"We change ideas like neckties."
- E.M. Cioran
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the Movement for Democratic Change (Tsvangirai's party) has a history of opposing Mugabe and his austerity measures and slum clearances, but they've made some mistakes in their time (concessions to austerity measures, some alleged links Tsvaingirai has to the Americans).
There are regular spontaneous outbursts and mass revolts in Africa, but there are few explicitly revolutionary organizations as far as I know to give these direction towards actual change -- i.e., the objective situation is good but the subjective forces lack behind.
For example, in Mozambique there have been strikes (which are often violent) in the mining, food processing and sugar sections, rioting over increase in bus and food prices, civil war veterans protesting over war pension changes, etc, but these are all generally dead end despite their excellent character. We see similar developments in other countries across Africa.
