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Tag Archives: South Africa
South Africans: don’t vote for messiahs!
From UPM: The formation of the Black Consciousness Movement in this country was a realization by Black people that we could no longer stand and be spectators of the game we are supposed to be playing. This election season continues to demonstrate the relevance of Biko’s teachings. Continue reading
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC Youth League, Andile Mngxitama, Ayanda Kota, Black Consciousness movement, Blikkiesdorp, Democratic Alliance, Economic Freedom Fighters, elections, evictions, Frantz Fanon, Gwala, Hangberg, Helen Zille, Jacob Zuma, John Block, Julius Malema, leaders, Limpopo, Marikana mine massacre, messiahs, National Youth Development Agency, Nkandla, Nzuza, racism, South Africa, Steve Biko, Tatane, Unemployed People's Movement, Unemployment, UPM, Youth Wage Subsidy
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For Nelson Mandela
“For Nelson Mandela,” a poem by Paul Knopf. Continue reading
Illegal evictions sully Mandela’s legacy
Just when Mandela has passed, the African National Congress is not even ashamed of the lives the poor are living, or the fact that the residents of Cato Crest will spend Christmas on the street. Continue reading
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Tagged Abahlali baseMjondolo, African National Congress, anti-eviction, Bandile Mdlalose, Cato Crest, Durban, Durban High Court, EThekwini, homelessness, James Nxumalo, Kennedy Road settlement, Land Invasion Unit, land occupation, Ndabo Mzimela, Ravi Pillay, S'bu Zikode, shackdwellers' movement in South Africa, South Africa
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Deadly South African evictions
Deadly South African evictions Continue reading
November-December 2013 News & Letters online
The new November-December 2013 issue of News & Letters is online. News & Letters, Vol. 58, No. 6 November – December 2013 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead The Syrian Revolution as the test … Continue reading
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Tagged Abahlali, anti-eviction, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, Black Power, Caribbean, Cato Crest, debt ceiling, Detroit, economism, government shutdown, Grenada, healthcare workers, Jerome Jackson, Kaiser Permanente, labor, Luleka Makhwenkwana, Marx's Humanism, Maurice Bishop, Middle East revolutions, New Jewel Movement, News and Letters Committees, Nqobile Nzuza, Paul Mattick, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, South Africa, Syria, Tea Party, United States
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A view after Marikana
What have we learned from the Marikana massacre of South African mine workers? Continue reading
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Tagged labor, Marikana mine massacre, miners, Russian Revolution, self-organization, South Africa, Trade unionism, workers
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Abahlali: ‘Our Movement is Under Attack’
The evictions in Cato Crest started as ethnic evictions. They are now political evictions. The war on our movement is a war on democracy. We urge the media to rush to Cato Crest now. Continue reading
Violence ‘normalized’
We are living in contradictory times, especially when it comes to women’s struggle for freedom. On the one hand you have a Women’s Liberation Movement that has never been more radical, unified and global. On the other hand there is more repression, and the violence is more brutal and deadly than ever before. Continue reading
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Tagged Anene Booysen, Arab spring, Bangladesh, Congo, Doctors Without Borders, Egypt, Facebook, feminism, Great Britain, Hena Akhter, India, Jyoti Singh Pandey, Left, Maldives, normalization of violence against women, patriarchy, Rape, revolution, sexism, sexual assault in the military, Socialist Workers Party, South Africa, SWP, Tunisia, U.S. Air Force, United States, Violence against women, Women in India, women's liberation movement
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Past time to stop rape in South Africa
We do not believe that the state is taking the rape and murder of Thandiswa Qubuda seriously. The state holds poor people in contempt. We are just voting fodder to them. We are not human beings to them. It is clear that the leadership in the struggle against rape will have to come from below. It is time for real action against rape. Continue reading
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Tagged Abahlali baseMjondolo, Anene Booysen, feminism, Grahamstown, Jacob Zuma, Johannesburg, Mzi Dyantyi, One Billion Rising, patriarchy, Rape, sexism, South Africa, Thandiswa Qubuda, Unemployed People's Movement, UPM, Violence against women, women's liberation
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From South Africa: Hunger games real for unemployed
From the January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: From South Africa Hunger games real for unemployed Capetown, South Africa—During the Christmas break we received the most shocking news from KwaZulu-Natal. The provincial traffic department advertised 90 positions for trainee … Continue reading
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Tagged Abahlali baseMjondolo, African National Congress, Andries Tatane, Ayanda Kota, Capetown, capitalism, Frantz Fanon, Harry Gwala Stadium, KwaZulu-Natal, labor, Marikana, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Unemployed People's Movement, Unemployment, Willies Mchunu, workers
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