Gramsci Archives - Intervention

Gramsci and Lenin on Transcending ‘Parliamentarism’ and on Direct Democracy

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Direct democracy, Gramsci, Lenin, Marxism, NEP, Paris Commune, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

Although now reconceptualised in different ways from Gramsci’s, income economist and City University of New York (CUNY) academic, Branko Milanovic delivers on the classical Gramscian v... Read more

As NLC Steps Into Hardship Protests in Nigeria, Exposing President Tinubu’s Paradoxes

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Adams Smith, Bono, CD, Civil society, DA, Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s subsidy regime, Empire, Gramsci, NANS, NLC, Oxfam, SCON, The Economist, ‘Who Elected Oxfam?’No CommentsViews:

Barring last minute cancellation or postponement or similar surprises, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) is rolling out its affiliates at last for a test of strength against the Tinubu admi... Read more

Prof Adele Jinadu’s Missing Coalition

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Bolivia, DA, Gramsci, Lenin, Mammangida, SCON, Socialism, WinnebaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria’s Prof Adele Jenaidu has been the source of a number of conceptual innovations of late. Hardship and hunger should not prevent us from further engagement with t... Read more

Peter Obi and the Ideological Crisis of the Nigerian Left

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Algerian independence, Articulatory politics, Classical Marxism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, SCON, ‘Marxism in Africa’No CommentsViews:

If the Nigerian Left or what remains of it has not publicly acknowledged Peter Obi for forcing an ontological moment in there, it might only be because the recovery from the Obi shocker for... Read more

Interrupting Prof Adigun Agbaje’s Birthday

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', CODESRIA, Deconstruction, First Class, Gramsci, Hegemony, NAFTA, NANS, NPSA, Things Fall Apart, Zapatista MovementNo CommentsViews:

University of Ibadan political scientist, Prof Adigun Agbaje was a year older recently. It is either that he doesn’t particularly fancy the culture of elaborate festivities for a birthday or... Read more

Imagining the Emancipatory Promise of Popular Geopolitics for Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 10, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 'A scar on the conscience of the world', 'Africa Rising', 'CNN Effect', AfCFTA, DONALD TRUMP, Global Governance, Gramsci, HegemonyNo CommentsViews:

Extracted from the website of the Global Governance Institute of the University College London where it was originally published, January 10th, 2020 (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-governance/... Read more

Connecting EU Final Report on 2019 Nigerian Polls to the National Context

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2019In: SpectacleTags: EOM, EU, GramsciNo CommentsViews:

As the campaigns for the 2019 elections drew to a close, deep concerns could be observed, at least from media postures. Even as partisan enthusiasts seized platforms of popular culture to re... Read more