The class struggle is fought in the United States not in the streets of New York or the back alleys of Detroit or Seattle, but in the stock exchanges, the electoral colleges and the chatrooms of big media houses. The opposing gladiators are not workers and capitalists up in arms against each other, but people […]

“Everything depends upon the course of social development and on the relation of social forces” -Georgi Plekhanov THE advancement of social development and the transformation of the conditions in a given country that favours the strengthening of social forces should be the highest purpose of governance. This, of course, is subject to the collective advancement […]

“Little by little however, the process of generalisation takes effect” – Georgi Plekhanov THE process of generalisation is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse on the typology of governments in the sense of their being “good” or “bad”. This article seeks to contextualise the approach to examining governance from a particular ideological standpoint that seeks […]

“I saw not victory after the war, but a new and happier world after the victory” – John Buchan EVEN while prosecuting the Civil War, General Yakubu Gowon was thinking about how to win the peace that would inevitably ensue. In a radio broadcast to the nation on October 1, 1970, he outlined a nine-point programme […]

“I saw not victory after the war, but a new and happier world after the victory” – John Buchan Nation-building is an arduous task requiring great patience, intrepid courage and sagacity. It also requires an expansive disposition that accommodates diversity and differences of viewpoints and ideas. Aggregating diversity and achieving uniformity marks the culmination of a […]