The high-level UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week was called an "epic failure" by Greenpeace and other environmental organizations, their disappointments reminiscent of the "epic failure" of the UN Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa only half...
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Nabudere: An uncompromising revolutionary | by Yash Tandon
A long-time comrade of revolutionary figure Dani Wadada Nabudere provides an in-depth view of the Ugandan leader’s life and often uncelebrated achievements. Of some people it is true to say that they are better known after they have left this world. What makes them...
A Festival of Resistance
first published in Mahala This was the third time I attended the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, now as a fourth year student at Rhodes University. The role that the festival plays for the town has become increasingly apparent as my own interests and work have...
Attacks on wages: the case of the construction industry | by Amandla! editorial staff
Average real wage within Construction (contractors), 1994-2011 1. Wage increases above inflation? Yes, of course! The wage Bargaining season is here again and the media will again complain about "wage demands are inflationary". Read: "Wage demands are too high". But...
The Electoral Victory of Political Islam in Egypt | by Samir Amin
The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising. The decline brought about by the current globalization of capitalism has produced an extraordinary increase in the so-called "informal" activities that...
Morsi wins Egypt’s presidential election
Muslim Brotherhood candidate declared the official winner with 13.2 million votes in second round. The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi has officially won Egypt's presidential election and will be the country's next president, the electoral commission has...
Egyptians Return to Tahrir Square to Protest Military Power Grab | by Shahira Amin
Hundreds of thousands of activists returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Monday night to protest supplementary constitutional amendments issued by the ruling military council in recent days. The amendments grant the military sweeping legislative and budgetary powers...
Exclusive Interview: Joseph Stiglitz Sees Terrifying Future for America If We Don’t Reverse Inequality
What will life look like down the road if we don't reverse economic inequality? We must see through the myths of capitalism and build a mass movement if we are to save ourselves. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of America's most prescient voices,...
Rio+20 Was a Predictable Bust | by Brian Mier
By 2012 the global warming crisis was supposed to be resolved. World leaders promised this 20 years ago at the Eco-92 Summit, where they introduced a new strategy called “sustainable development” that would enable market forces to save the environment through...


