The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has commenced a three-year research project on the Intellectual Histories in Political Discourses in Eastern Africa. The research proposes to construct such a historical narrative by tracing the history of ideas and concepts that came to occupy both the dominant and subordinate politics since independence. The working hypothesis at this stage is that the history of ideas facilitates the ...
African states are signatory to more than 900 investment treaties. Majority of these have been signed with non-African states. The intention for signing investment treaties is vested within the solo interest to protect the rights of foreign investors in the host state, albeit at the cost of human rights and the host states’ development interests. For more than “20 years, ‘human rights’ and ‘business’ were very rarely ...
(Swahili below) From the early 1970s, the capitalist system changed and started taking the free market face. Free market capitalism was introduced to rob power, authority, resources, and profits from the hands of workers and put them in the hands of capitalists. Every respite for the workers through free social services was removed and put in the hands of capitalists. But workers have not agreed with this system th ...
The Ukombozi Library "The Kenya Socialist” seeks to promote socialist ideas and socialist world outlook. The magazine provides the missing socialist perspective on issues of continental interest and is committed to supporting people’s resistance to capitalism. The magazine aims to promote democratic socialist idea, offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their ...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN TANZANIA AND INDIA Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung / TOAM / TABIO, 2019 Author: Shalini Bhutani This publication aims to generate a better understanding over the seed landscapes in Tanzania and in India. It compares the concepts, policies, actors and existing strategies over seed systems in these two countries. Findings show that Farmer-managed seed systems cannot run on their own without ...
Civil society statement on Public-Private Partnerships developed during a side event held at the sidelines of the Tanzania – Business Forum to inform the Public Private Partnerships Forum Africa Inaugural Conference in Kampala, Uganda from 16th-18th September 2019. Civil Society warn EAC governments about the lack of democratic accountability in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) arguing that the new ...
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Southern and Eastern Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) and HakiMadini are organizing a civil society parallel session on the sidelines of the 1st Uganda – Tanzania Business Forum. The theme of the parallel session is prepared under the theme “Are Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) a healthy option for East Africa?”. The session is scheduled to take place on ...
The name Rosa Luxemburg enjoys a special place in the struggles of the Tanzanian Left, secretly reuniting its fragments and later rejuvenating it when it was in retreat. The former happened during the era of radical nationalism (1960s and 1970s), and the latter during the era of neoliberal capitalist crisis (from 2007 onwards). Globally, the 1960s and 1970s were heady years for the Left. Click here to download ...