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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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Race, particularly in the South African context, is a major issue of consciousness of people. And it’s connected to the issue of oppression and exploitation in a deep way.
Here in South Africa we see a state which fails to function at the most basic level. It fails to provide water, electricity, functioning sewage systems – the most fundamental utilities.
Should the public sector unions decide to go on strike for an above inflation wage increase, which now seems inevitable, the left popular front could come into existence, if not in name then in deed.
There have been moments when opportunities for a revival of the socialist Left looked promising. The late 1990s saw the flourishing of a range of social justice struggles, which began to pose a challenge to the ANC government’s shift to neoliberalism.