A New Left, if it is to be born, will come quietly at first, gathering fragments of resistance.
What the night teaches: toward a New Left in an age of unfreedom
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Authoritarianism
On Economic Globalisation, Neo-liberalism and the Nature of the Period by | Nigel Harris
For long, the term "imperialism" was popular to denote a world political order embodying systemic relations of domination with Washington at the centre. That thesis is no longer considered valid. Washington itself is victim to a global capitalist order and is mired in...
Parliament resorts to censorship
As per the Sunday Times editorial below, the democratic Parliament of South Africa has resorted to censorship to block legitimate concerns of a rising authoritarianism and intolerance of critique. The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) was stopped...
AMANDLA ISSUE 21 | EDITORIAL
AMANDLA ISSUE 21 | EDITORIAL :We face a deepening crisis. Mining, manufacturing and agriculture, key employments sectors of the South African economy, have declined dramatically, almost certainly condemning many more thousands of people to the unemployment scrapheap....
Statement: CoDL Condemns Proposed Media Censorship Measures
01 September 2010Oppose media censorship! Oppose state authoritarianism! Not in our names! Democratise the media! The Conference of the Democratic Left (CoDL) condemns government and ANC attempts to curb media freedom in South Africa, made manifest in the...