Review of Akala’s ‘Natives. Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire.’ July 2019
Global Capitalism, Empire, White Supremacy: The Mosque Shooting In Perspective
1848: Impact of Revolution on French Colonies
Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"
Dauvé versus Marx
In critiquing Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch Gilles Dauvé highlights limitations in his own conception of the creation of the proletariat internationally, and his understanding of Marx’s work on slavery. These limitations are not unique to Dauvé, but as someone libcom cites as an influence, especially due to his insistence on the proletariat as a negative rather than positive category, and who has been influential on the communisation tendency generally, we should expect better.
1947: The February 28 Incident
1964: British troops put down mutinies in post-colonial Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda
Just one month following Kenya's official independence, Jomo Kenyatta invited British troops to put down a mutiny of soldiers who were conducting a sit-down protest against the continued presence of British officers in the army and low pay. In the same week, the British also put down mutinies with similar demands in Julius Nyerere's Tanzania and Milton Obote's Uganda, also at invitation. All three armies had originated in the King's African Rifles.
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