What we see in the Hamburg lectures is a shift in Rodney’s work toward the self-activity—the occupations and 'wild-cat strikes'—of the

working class, not as one of numerous players in the revolution, but as the central organizing force.

Dr Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements and biographies on some of Africa’s most important political thinkers and activists. He is an editor of the Review of African Political Economy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.