...in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love. Like falling in love. Do the young still fall in love, or is that mechanism obsolete by now, unnecessary,...
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Capitalism and alienation | by Phil Gasper
Capitalism creates a society that robs most people of their creative potential, says Phil Gasper I’M SURE it’s not often that the ideas of Karl Marx are discussed in the prestigious pages of the British Journal of Dermatology, but an article published there in January...
Is an alternative possible? | by Phil Gasper
Phil Gasper reviews what Marx had to say about the transition from capitalism to socialism THE REMARKABLE emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the closing months of 2011 has not only shifted the political debate in the United States, putting issues of...
Zuma painting must be removed – SADTU by | Mugwena Maluleke
Union says freedom of expression doesn't extend to freedom to insult SADTU calls for the immediate removal of Zuma painting SADTU is joining the ANC and COSATU in the call to have the painting of President Jacob Zuma showing his private parts removed from the Goodman...
No Zunami on the Streets | by Richard Pithouse
There's no question that the debate, in and around the media, ignited by the ANC's response to Brett Murray's painting has been voluminous and intense in equal measure. And there have been important insights and lessons learned amongst the sound and fury. But the way...
Volunteer for Amandla
There’s lots more we’d like to be able to do with Amandla!, so we welcome offers of help from people with particular skills. For instance, do you have audio or video recording and editing skills that could help us move into multimedia? Could you help us fundraise? Are...
Occupy Together | by Pierre Rousset
Neoliberal globalization has pushed for the emergence of a new internationalism. Today, it is the violence of the social crisis in the North that is creating the conditions for this new internationalism. Neoliberal globalisation effectively emerged at the beginning of...
Interview with Ramy Essam, the revolutionary singer | by Andre Marais
Ramy Essam began the 25 January revolution in Egypt purely as participant, a responsibility he felt happy to undertake. But he was soon called upon by his fellow protestors to provide the soundtrack to their struggles and was quickly labelled ‘the singer of the...
Film Flicks
The Amandla! Film That Matter Series, 2012 Here is a taste of just some of the films we’ve got lined up for the first quarter of the year. These films are screened every fortnight at the AIDC. Check out our Facebook page for more information @Amandla! Media. TAC:...


