COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of...
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The Chilean Road to socialism: 50 YEARS AFTER ALLENDE’S DEFEAT
FIFTY YEARS AGO, CHILE’S ROAD TO socialism suffered a devastating defeat. On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, spurred by elites, condoned by middle-class sectors and backed by Washington, toppled Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular (Popular Unity, UP). This was...
COMMERCIAL FARMERS PRIORITISED OVER SMALL-SCALE BLACK FARMERS
Amandla! interviewed Norah Mlondobozi, a member of Mopani Farmers Association and the Rural Women's Assembly in Limpopo. Norah Mlondobozi: I am a farmer around Mopani in Limpopo. We are doing cash crops. We are doing vegetables. And then we also have free-range...
ORGANISE AND RESIST AUSTERITY!
FROM A CLASS PERSPECTIVE, resisting austerity is the most important struggle that needs to be waged. It is poor and working-class people who rely on state services. With every cut in the budgets of social security, health, education, housing, policing, land reform...