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Amandla!: What in your view are the factors that gave rise to the latest assault on Gaza and why did it happen at this time? Why has it taken such an exceptionally brutal form? Gilbert Achcar: The real qualitative escalation in brutality goes along with the drift of...
Bertrand Russell once wrote about the American revolutionary Thomas Paine, "He had faults, like other men; but it was for his virtues that he was hated and successfully calumniated." This was certainly true of Hugo Chávez Frias, who was probably more demonized than...
Revenue from personal income tax is part of how governments are able to fund the type of society they imagine. In the case of South Africa, the government presents a vision of a more equal society, striving to lessen inequality and right the wrongs of the past. For...
Tax is a most personal matter. It seems that the more rich one is the greater is the resentment about 'my' hard-earned income being taken from 'me' to pay for 'them'. For the majority, on the other hand, tax is indirectly experienced in the increasing poverty of the...
We the more than 250 representatives of grassroots movements, community-based organizations, peasant and small farmers movements, faith based organizations, women's organizations, labour, student, youth, economic justice and human rights networks and other social...
Conflict stemming from collusion between management and a yellow union, attempting to weaken IndustriALL's affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), escalated into tragedy yesterday as at least 35 workers were shot dead by police at the Marikana platinum mine....
AN OLD west African proverb compares the artist to a dog. Positioned at the interface of the human and the natural worlds, the dog in most ancient African societies enjoyed a slippery and highly ambiguous cultural status. Neither a human being, nor a wild animal, it...
KINGSTON, CANADA - Over the past year, Africa has seen the decomposition of states from coast to coast. A belt of war, coups and large-scale spontaneous demonstrations has emerged across the Sahel, from Guinea-Bissau to Somalia. The situation represents a significant...
The People’s Dialogue, a network representing millions of African and Latin Americans organised in movements of rural women, small scale farmers, peasants, workers, feminist and research formations, is mindful that the discussion on the green economy takes place at...