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What is Thomas Piketty’s Battle Cry This Time Around?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Clash of Civilisation, Davos, Harvard University Press, Hypercapitalism, MarxismNo CommentsViews:
What is Thomas Piketty’s Battle Cry This Time Around?

Later this week, a new book will enter the bookshelves across the world. At a time intellectual enemies and intellectual defenders of capitalism are locked in battle like never before, any b... Read more

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Y Z Yau’s Shara Primary School Campaign as a Debate in When is a Revolution Revolutionary

Posted By: adminon: September 07, 2019In: GovernanceTags: Arab Spring, Boris Yelstin, CPSU, Emancipatory Realism, Gov Umar Ganduje, Marxism, Military Vanguardism, Occupy Movement, Shara Community, SUBEB, Sumaila LGA, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Y Z Yau’s Shara Primary School Campaign as a Debate in When is a Revolution Revolutionary

“Security is a thick signifier” “Like health and status, security is a condition that is not difficult to define; in each case, the starting point should begin in the experiences, imaginings... Read more

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Closing or Creating Gaps in Marxism? (1)

Posted By: adminon: August 15, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Jerusalem, Jews, Marxism, Marxists, Marxology, PlaestineNo CommentsViews:
Closing or Creating Gaps in Marxism? (1)

If the Coxian intervention that shattered the hegemony of the scientific claim to truth is anything to go by, then this book will face interrogation such as the title of this piece. That is,... Read more

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How Many Can Still Locate Own Copies of the Classics of Political Economy of Africa?

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'The New Imperialism';, INGOs, Marxism, RMANo CommentsViews:
How Many Can Still Locate Own Copies of the Classics of Political Economy of Africa?

It is not impossible but very unlikely that these books form part of the reading list anymore across Nigerian universities. But they were the books without which the First Degree in the Huma... Read more

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Coasting to the Marxist Moment in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: November 04, 2018In: GovernanceTags: ISI, Marxism, NITEL, SOEsNo CommentsViews:
Coasting to the Marxist Moment in Nigeria?

Even the most dismissive of the progressives in Nigerian politics must have got the message that even as there might not be anything approximating a Marxist Moment in Nigeria yet, the seed h... Read more

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A Week to Nigerian Conference on Marxism

Posted By: adminon: October 25, 2018In: BookspaceTags: Marxism, NLC, SAPNo CommentsViews:
A Week to Nigerian Conference on Marxism

It is now exactly seven days to the opening of a potentially productive conference on Marxism at Nasarawa State University, Keffi, (NSUK), in central Nigeria. It will last from November 1st... Read more

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After ‘NLC @ 40’

Posted By: adminon: April 24, 2018In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, Left, Marxism, NLC, SAPNo CommentsViews:
After 'NLC @ 40'

The labour roots of the editorial minders of the Abuja based The Worker positions the periodical in terms of the best possible coverage of the recent 40th anniversary of Nigeria’s central la... Read more

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So, When Will Nigeria Get a Leader Like Lula?

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2018In: SpectacleTags: COSATU, Dependency Theory, GAIN, IMF, MarxismNo CommentsViews:
So, When Will Nigeria Get a Leader Like Lula?

By 2003 when the Workers Party won election and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shortened to ‘Lula’, became the president, Brazil was a virtual write off. The IMF was running the show, dictating... Read more

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Okpani Ochiga, Unusual Statesman, Submits to Death

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2018In: People in ActionTags: Catholic Church, KTL Ltd, Marxism, NLC, Okpokwu LGCNo CommentsViews:
Okpani Ochiga, Unusual Statesman, Submits to Death

Death has occurred of Comrade Patrick Ameh Ochiga, a unionist, politician and community leader in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State. He gave up the ghost earlier this morning on t... Read more

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Professor Declares Political Science Useless at Tension Soaked, Humour Ridden Session

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2018In: BookspaceTags: IFIs, Marxism, National Conference, NHRC, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:
Professor Declares Political Science Useless at Tension Soaked, Humour Ridden Session

Democracy or the question of whether it has procedural and substantive dimension turned a slippery, divisive topic again this morning as top African scholars, activists and barons of the civ... Read more

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