Description
One hundred and fifty years after the imperialist partition of Africa, and over six decades since independence, explosive “Gen Z” uprisings shook Tanzania and the rest of the continent in 2024–25. Based on the incisive analysis of Leon Trotsky, this book shows that the repression of these mass protests by African ruling elites was the inevitable product of the pro-capitalist perspective of “national liberation” movements—influenced by Stalinism, Maoism, Pan-Africanism and African Socialism. Only Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution, and its insistence that democratic and social rights cannot be achieved through the capitalist nation state, advanced a revolutionary, internationalist programme for African workers. Today, these lessons are more vital than ever.
