IMPERIALISM

Abstract

The following piece of work aims at providing an explanation to the various developments and especially the wave of industrial disputes that took place between 1971 and 1975- that have led to the conscription, control and clampdown on the country's labor movement by the independent Tanzania government. It is our major contention that what has been happening is a result of the class contradictions pertaining in the country and that at best reflects the objective laws of class struggle. This we further argue, has been determined by the nature of the political economy of the country. Thus, our major task has been to show how the nature and extent of the said class contradictions and struggles are a result of the penetration and subjugation of the Tanzanian economy by the world capitalist system which has led-to the development of the major antagonistic classes. In this piece of work, we start by dismissing the various mainstream orthodox theories that have been advanced to explain the relationship between the labor movement and the independent Tanzania government. Instead, we offer an alternative (Marxist) interpretation based on class analysis.