As Cape Town nears disaster, activists fight water cut-offs in a story about governance, climate, and social justice.
Review: Capturing Water
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Climate Change
While the planet burns: exposing the failure of the COPs and seeding glimmers of hope
As we prepare to say farewell to 2024, we must pause to reflect on the state of our planet’s climate emergency and our responses to it.
Organising the unemployed: The Botshabelo Unemployed Movement
When you organise unemployed people, they think that you organise them to get money.
How humanity is condemned to death by the political protection given to economic interests
*This article is jointly published by Amandla! and the Daily Maverick. "Ηow dare you,” Greta Thunberg lambasted world leaders in 2019, “you have stolen my dreams and my childhood”. By 2024, one could say that world leaders have stolen much more than her dreams...
Elections: WAY FORWARD FOR THE LEFT
WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the profound effect this election is going to have on shaping the medium-term political landscape in the country. That means that it’s going to have a profound effect on how to go about trying to construct a Left party. And there are major...
Privatisation and climate change mean sewage in rivers and seas
THE STATE OF THE WATER industry has been a matter of increasing concern in British politics over recent years. More and more stories have surfaced about the excessive dumping of sewage into rivers and seas. In many local areas, especially on the coast or where rivers...
CLIMATE CHANGE AS CLASS WAR
Bruce Baigrie interviewed the author, Matt Huber Amandla!: Your recent book is titled Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. Can you explain what you mean by that? Why is class so important here? MATT HUBER: The title is very explicitly...
CLIMATE CHANGE AS CLASS WAR by Matthew Huber
IN 2022, THERE ARE A LOT OF BOOKS about climate change and a lot of books that purport to tell us how to address it. Matt Huber’s book is not like most of these. It unambiguously centres class struggle, reconstituting materialist analysis as ecological politics. By...
END AUSTERITY & PRIVATISATION: BUILD A HEALTHY, PRODUCTIVE, ACCOUNTABLE PUBLIC SERVICE SECTOR
…We face social and economic disasters associated with having one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world…Unemployment and the associated social crises of gender-based violence, substance abuse, racism and xenophobia are a national emergency.