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On live television, Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro choked on his words. Hugo Chávez, the improbable President, born in the rural poverty of Sabaneta, in the state of Barinas, in 1954 had died of cancer.[1] To his wealthy and light-skinned enemies he was evil...
Most of what you read or hear in mass media about President Hugo Chavez is always negative, his faults exaggerated, his discourse distorted and his achievements ignored. The reality is quite different. Hugo Chavez was beloved by millions around the world. He changed...
(born 22 October 1936; died 27 August 2012) Neville Edward Alexander meant many specific things to many different people. For the most part of his adult life, he grappled with life's contradictions, its dilemmas, its twists and its beauty as a socialist intellectual...
Don't blame American appetites, rising oil prices, or genetically modified crops for rising food prices. Wall Street's at fault for the spiraling cost of food. Demand and supply certainly matter. But there's another reason why food across the world has become so...
A wife of a Lonmin mine worker who was arrested after the bloodbath that occured last week protests outside the Garankuwa Magistrate Court where her partner was making his first appearance. Picture: Stringer Unhealed wounds and divisions from South Africa's past...
Amandla! interviewed 3 youth activists on the meaning of June 16th Mntuwoxolo Ngudle, student at CPUT. YCL / ANCYL / ANC / SACP / SASCO Peter Tsholo, Free State. Progressive Youth Movement Wendy Tsotetsi, Gauteng, Youth Agricultural Ambassadors (YAA), ANC Amandla!...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a world-renowned expert on terror, needs experts to understand that the burning of a major mosque by Jews will spark a larger conflagration? As Haaretz reported on Sunday, prominent Mideast experts met with the prime minister to...
Text of a presentation by Grant Brookes at the conference Socialism 2012: Class Struggle in Aotearoa, held June 1-3 in Wellington, New Zealand, sponsored by the Workers Party New Zealand. I had some reservations, when I was asked to speak in this session, about an...
Government's New Growth Path document calls for a social pact that includes a proposed wage restraint, which means workers would moderate their wage demands. Various monetary-policy statements by the Reserve Bank, research reports by Adcorp and other comments by...