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Sarkozy has been beaten. This is an inspiring result and we rejoice. We should analyse the relationship of forces that it reflects and the situation that it opens. Throughout Europe the incumbents have been beaten. The Greek, Spanish and Portuguese social democrats...
Mother who got arrested protecting my daughter when she was brutally arrested by the new riot police. Lying in the cells listening to the women of Manenberg explain why they went to the Common left me wondering whether I had come full circle in the new South Africa: I...
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...
Anyone interested in South Africa will be asking: What is the political future of Malema if he does not appeal his five-year suspension from the ANC? What is the future of the ANC Youth League, and what is the future of the ANC?‘A week is a long time in politics,’...
If one has been relying solely on more recent mainstream press coverage and associated NGO–academic interpretations to understand and analyse South Africa’s foreign policy/diplomacy, then is be only a slight exaggeration to say that the overwhelming conclusion must be...
Amandla! (A!): You have said that the Palestinian bid for UN membership has brought together the divided Palestinian factions of Hamas and Fatah. What is the state of their relations following the unity agreement?Raji Sourani (RS): I think the Israeli government...
While North America and Europe were hard hit, China has survived the international crisis of 2008, thanks to huge public spending, a low interest rate and consumption subsidies. China’s growth rate reached 9% in 2009 and 10.4% in 2010; in its wake, China dragged Asia...
TALKING DIRTYGone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers, New Press, 2005On average, each American produces almost 4.2 pounds (2 kg) of garbage a day, almost a third of it in packaging. This staggering statistic starts Heather Rogers’s book on garbage, a...
The fundamental problem facing humanity today is catastrophic climate change brought on by runaway greenhouse gas emissions. The relatively narrow band of climatic conditions within which we can function has been destabilised. As average temperatures rise extreme...