Amandla!: SAGRC has been going for nearly 40 years. Tell Amandla! readers who you are and what you have been doing. Matthews Hlabane: SAGRC is an environmental and social justice organisation based in Emalahleni. It started in the 1980s, when most of us, as youthful...
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RENEWING THE LEFT: NOT JUST DOOM AND GLOOM
THIS ARTICLE SEEKS TO RESPOND to the questions posed by Amandla! which relate to the South African Left in particular: where is the Left intellectually, programmatically and organisationally? What has happened to it, and why has it become so fragmented and marginal?...
Editorial: Prospects for a new Left
WHERE IS THE ORGANISED solidarity with the workers’ movement in Ukraine, fighting the Russian occupation? Where is the movement to defend foreign nationals from xenophobia? Where is the movement against femicide? And where is the fight against extreme budget cuts that...
Amandla 88: Prospects for a new Left Politics
Issue 88 of Amandla! asks whether a political alternative is possible. The centrepiece of the feature is an edited version of a roundtable discussion between five young socialist activists, which reflects honestly on the weakness of the Left and attempts to understand...
STATEMENT of Vladimir Kara-Murza to Moscow City Court
RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST and journalist, Vladimir Kara-Murza, faces up to 25 years in jail. He is charged with high treason and spreading false information about the Russian army. His “crime” is that he has spoken out repeatedly against the Putin regime and against...
DAILY LIFE FOR PALESTINIANS UNDER ISRAELI OCCUPATION
I HAVE JUST RETURNED TO SOUTH AFRICA after spending months in occupied Palestine. When I was thinking about what to write about my time there, the first thing that popped into my mind was the mental violence at Israeli checkpoints. And that is still what is with me...
The fake “7.5%” public servants wage increase and the game of smoke and mirrors
AS THE AUSTERITY trajectory of the Treasury continues downward, tricks and deception have become the order of the day. All to deceive public sector workers about the real amount of their pay “increase”. Nehawu, Popcru, Denosa, Sapu and others went on strike for one...
What do we mean by neoliberalism?
IT CAN NO LONGER BE DOUBTED THAT we are living in an age of unceasing crisis. And South Africa can no longer be considered as an exception in the socio-economic problems it faces. At home and abroad, we face unyielding economic instability, explosive political...
JUST PROFIT NOT JUST TRANSITION
IN THE SPACE OF A YEAR AND A HALF, South Africa has agreed to borrow billions of rand in foreign currency. This is for a programme of economic restructuring on the basis of a Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP). Unions and civil society have been...