THE STATE OF THE WATER industry has been a matter of increasing concern in British politics over recent years. More and more stories have surfaced about the excessive dumping of sewage into rivers and seas. In many local areas, especially on the coast or where rivers...
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL ON SPORT 50th anniversary
THE WORLD IS IN CRISIS. South African townships and marginalised communities mirror the strife that plagues many poor and working-class communities across the globe. France is in flames: immigrant communities, that French society has failed to integrate, protest...
PROSPECTS FOR A NEW LEFT
Two decades of ANC-led neoliberalisation, which has surrendered democracy, development and state formation to capital, consolidated the strategic defeat of the Left and working class in South Africa.
75 YEARS SINCE THE NAKBA, THE CATASTROPHE FOR PALESTINIANS
THE ISRAELI REGIME IS RARELY described for what it is: a settler, colonial state that practices apartheid against Palestinians. Palestinians have been saying this for decades. Human rights organisations, such as Al Haq, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and...
THE NHI AND THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” - Martin Luther King SOUTH AFRICA SUFFERS FROM AN enormous burden of disease and ill health that affects all of us. It affects us as individuals. But it also affects us as a...
A CRISIS OF POLITICS? WHAT IS ITS NATURE?
Interview with Mosa Phadi, an activist scholar and member of Keep Left Amandla!: Is there a crisis of politics? what’s your understanding of it and its nature in South Africa? MOSA PHADI: It’s been ongoing in different ways since 1994. I think the biggest betrayal...
VICTORY FOR SIMUNYE WORKERS FORUM
Amandla! Interview with Vuyelwa Magidela, member of the Simunye Standing Committee Amandla!: Simunye Workers Forum is an independent organization of workers based in Germiston. You recently won a victory in the Labour Court. Can you tell us about that victory? Vuyelwa...
THE CRISIS OF POLITICS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
IN JULY, AMANDLA! BROUGHT TOGETHER A GROUP OF YOUNG, SOCIALIST ACTIVISTS TO DISCUSS THE CRISIS OF POLITICS IN AN OPEN-ENDED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION. We chose this format because we wanted to dig deeper than usually happens in a public panel situation. We wanted a more...