The economists and big business say it is too radical, filled with Marxist rhetoric, and threatening state intervention and nationalisation. The trade unionists and communists say it is too conservative, promoting black business and labour market reform. Is The Second...
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“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” Frantz Fanon The South African crisis: Post-apartheid South Africa can only be described as in a continuing state of crisis. After nearly twenty years of jobless...
Too big to be honest | by Amandla Staff
One of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, GlaxoSmithKline, the British drugmaker, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges, and pay $3bn to settle one of the largest cases of healthcare fraud in US history. The drug giant is to plead guilty to...
COSATU Response to ANC Discussion Paper on the Second Transition
Preface We would like to thank the ANC for providing us with an opportunity to respond to all the papers, in particular the one on the Second Transition. We hope and trust that our response will find a place for serious consideration in the conference proceedings. We...
What can we do to intentionally shape our collective destiny? (part 1 of 2) | by Claudio Schuftan
The following two Readers are a summarization of the key messages found in Global Health Watch 3, PHM’s alternative flagship publication that analyzes the current world health situation. 1. Our collective destiny is not in our hands. It is in the hands of a handful of...
Rio+20 Draft Text Is 283 Paragraphs Of Fluff | by George Monbiot
In 1992, world leaders signed up to something called "sustainability". Few of them were clear about what it meant; I suspect that many of them had no idea. Perhaps as a result, it did not take long for this concept to mutate into something subtly different:...
Rio+20: Vengeance Too Long Delayed | by Gwynne Dyer
There was no law against genocide in the early 1940s; it only became an internationally recognized crime after the worst genocide of modern history had actually happened. Similarly, there is no law against “ecocide” now. That will only come to pass when the damage to...
Rio+ 20: Greed Economy alive and well in the hotels of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil–Alongside the multilateral government negotiations happening at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development are business negotiations and so-called “public-private partnerships” being driven by corporate networks such as the Consumer Goods...
Rio+20: Sabotaging Sustainable Development | by Fazila Farouk
The messages of gloom and doom have been out there for some time now. Just about every other commentator is pronouncing on an impending failure of outcome for the Rio+20 Summit on sustainable development being hosted in Brazil this week. We are being told to temper...


