IGNORANCE = FEAR was uniquely well adapted for the industrial revolution. The demands for the products of the slave plantations, sugar and tobacco in the metropolis came from the oblivious consumers, completely unaware of the human or ecological cost of satisfying their pleasSlavery was overthrown because it became politically untenable, perishing in stormy class struggles in the colonies and the metropolis. The secular thoughts of the enlightenment were important for the movement against slavery.
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Throughout Africa, activists in the struggle against privatisation and unemployment have sprung up. Social forums have been created to resist the privatisation of water and electricity. Peasants have set up regional networks to resist neoliberal attacks against small agriculture.
There is the resistance to the pollution of the environment by the oil companies such as Shell in Nigeria conducted by the Ogoni Peoples Movement.
Trade unions have not played a prominent enough role within the social forums that would lead to more effective responses from these bodies.
Coordination at a national level has led to the formation of African Social Forums in the various countries. The radical left in Africa is weak and not yet in a position to have a visible impact on the social forums.
Kwame Nkrumah, who became the president of Ghana when it freed itself from colonialism championed Pan Africanism as necessary to liberate the continent of
What is required in Africa today in the struggle against neo-liberalism is a permanent Pan- African solidarity of the social movements, the trade unions and the anti-capitalist political organisations.
As the unity between the global justice movement in the metropolitan countries and the Third forged, a new internationalism could emerge.