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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We are publishing this article in the feature on the dysfunctional state as an illustration of one response to that dysfunctionality – set up your own, local, socially-owned project. In this case to produce electricity. The story shows how, even in this kind of...
STATES AND THE SOCIETIES THEY are responsible for have historically treated women like a natural resource. They have assumed that women have a “natural” capacity to do social reproduction work of cleaning, cooking, soothing, healing, childraising, birthing,...