Editorial from ROAPE Volume 11 Number 31
Capital vs. Labour in West Africa

We begin this issue with Luckham and Bekele's examination of the involvement of the USA and the USSR in the affairs and the wars in the Horn of Africa. In the first part of their article, which appeared in ROAPE 30, they analysed the local and international cycles and the links between them. Here they detail the activities of external powers and offer interpretations of their policies which question some of the arguments put forward by other contributions to ROAPE 30.