NUMSA Dirty Tricks Document ARE STATE SECURITY AGENCIES involved in the closing of democratic space? Evidence of people being approached to spy on social justice activists, phone taps, phony intelligence reports, and sinister thefts of electronic equipment indicate...
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Words Not Weapons | South African Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (JVJP)
Many people within South Africa and the global Jewish community are determined in their attempts to portray the Jewish community as homogeneous and unified in their consensus in support of the Israeli government's actions. We wish to add our voices to the growing...
Isolate Apartheid Israel now! Build a powerful mass movement in solidarity with Palestine!
The message from the estimated 150,000 marchers who took part in the 9th August Cape Town march in solidarity with Palestine was powerful, principled and unequivocal: South Africa must end its diplomatic relations with Israel. It is a betrayal of South Africa's own...
The phony war in Ukraine
By Boris Kagarlitsky March 4, 2014 Why, do you suppose, war has not yet broken out between Russia and Ukraine? The answer is very simple: no one plans to go to war, and no one can. Kiev for practical purposes does not have an army, while the government that has...
Two years after Fukushima | by Pierre Rousset
The triple disaster of 11 March 2011 constituted a major turning point in contemporary Japanese history — its political impact is not however unequivocal. It has provoked a radical break in the way in which many Japanese people perceive the authorities and...
Mali: folly of war in the Sahel | by Professor Issa Ndiaye
The current crisis in Mali is not the result of the March 22 coup d'état, which marked only the collapse of a misguided and corrupt democracy which has been so noisily eulogized. The current disaster has been produced by the monopolization of the State and other...
Interview with Bench Marks Foundation chief researcher David van Wyk
Amandla (A!): Some labour experts insist that the platinum mines, which you call the wealthiest in the world, cannot accede to miners' wage demands and pay for corporations' social responsibility to affected communities. To what extent is labour broking affecting...
Solidarity for beginners: Palestine/Israel conflict PART 2
Why is Jerusalem a problem? For millennia, Jerusalem has seen three major religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – settle in this area, the centre of the 'Holy Land'. Issues abound but all revolve around the historical settlement patterns for these religious and...
Solidarity for beginners: Palestine/Israel conflict PART 2
Why is Jerusalem a problem? For millennia, Jerusalem has seen three major religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – settle in this area, the centre of the 'Holy Land'. Issues abound but all revolve around the historical settlement patterns for these religious and...




