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The Tokyo Olympics has come and gone. But what is on display for Nigeria is not simply the two medals (a silver and a...
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Two new books have placed the pandemic in perspective as the crisis unfolded. Richard Horton’s The Covid-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to...
The Struggle for Labour-Led Development
A review of The Struggle for Development by Benjamin Selwyn, 2017 Polity Press
The dominant view on the left is that human development can only...
Religion, Social Life and Struggle
Present-day society is based on the exploitation of the vast mass of the working people and popular classes by a tiny minority of the...
Women in Twentieth Century Africa, By Iris Berger (2016) Cambridge University Press; A...
To what extent is feminism a Western idea? Is feminism really relevant in Africa? How should traditional values and norms be balanced with the...
Socialists in the Trade Unions
Written by Alex Callinicos
Reviewer Adefolarin Olamilekan
This book was first published in March 1995. The fundamental issues discussed in it are however relevant to today....
Marxism: Intellectual Ammunition for the Nigerian Working Class
Adam Mayer - Naija Marxisms - Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
(London: Pluto Press, 2016)
If you are angry about the current state of global society, especially...
On “Problems of Socialism: the Nigeria Challenge” – Eddie Madunagu
This book was written thirty-four years ago, however the majority of the arguments and contending issues remain relevant for us today. In the words...
BOOK REVIEW: The law and casual workers: “DETERMINATION OF CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT IN...
by Drew Povey
This new book by Femi Aborisade provides key information on the complex legal position of casual and temporary workers. This is important...
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