Thesis Title

Revolution Teaches: A comparative study of the formation of cadre in revolutionary organisations.

Thesis Outline

Cadre based organisations are a form of organisation that have historically, and continue, to provide rich examples of resistance to imperialism and ecological breakdown. As such they are legitimate sources of knowledge and their ways of theorising, educating, and acting should be central to research on the issue.

The thesis is an investigation into how education takes place within revolutionary political organisations that are consciously structured and directed by a layer of its membership known as Cadre. It is a comparative study that takes as its point of the departure the existing and developing practices of the formation of cadre (cadrification) within organisations across different political and economic geographies.

I explore the curricular content, pedagogical style and practical activities used by cadre-based organisations through a qualitative approach grounded in the Marxist interpretive and analytical tools of Dialectical and Historical Materialism. I aim to understand the application of pedagogy in the daily practice of the cadre in the organisation. Therefore, I seek to use a materialist analysis to bear on the ‘moral’ aspects of revolutionary political struggle. That is, I advance the argument that Derek Ford and Gy?rgy Lukács have made that the formation of an “oppositional” form of education to Imperialism requires an organisational form.

Supervised By

Dr Luke Parry, Dr Emma Cardwell, Dr Luciana Mendes Barbosa & Dr Kai Heron

Web Links

Pioneers of the Burkinabè revolution: https://scottishleftreview.scot/pioneers-of-the-bukinabe-revolution/ The Other-wise summer school: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9Ue1v2icSZ/

Career Details

· Project Manager for Maslaha’s Schools with Roots Project (2022 - 2025)

o Co-Designed, developed and facilitated of The Gap Arts Project’s (2024)

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