SO, Julius Malema strides confidently into the midst of what we are told is a 7,000-strong band of armed and angry miners, and calms them down. "Malema takes charge!" exclaimed the front page headline of one of the better Sunday papers. Before him all power — the...
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Humanoids of the World Unite
by Jared Sacks As the world continues to go down the road of self-destruction, we, the enslaved humanoids of planet Earth, are slowly realising that we are at a crossroads in history. War, economic collapse, rampant militarism, and a political culture of fear is...
Prejudice Parades as Economics | by Dick Forslund and Jeff Rudin
Whilst the debate in South Africa rages over the poorest workers allegedly being over paid, ‘The Occupy Wall Street’ movement that is now being replicated throughout the world expresses growing outrage at the ‘one percent’ of people whose wealth allows them to...
A beautiful human being: James Claassen | by Amandla! editorial staff
The Amandla collective brings our readers the tragic news of the passing of Jamie Claassen. Jamie was a founding member of the Amandla Project and Editorial Collective and was dedicated to the struggle for a democratic socialist alternative. Jamie was a person of...
Reality is a low wage economy undermines South Africa’s Development | by Brian Ashley
The Business Report is not a place to trade insults, as Mike Schussler does in his xenophobic piece “Putting data in someone else’s study is untruthful” (4/6). As Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) we are interested in stimulating a real debate on...
The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing | by Edgardo Lander
I. The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 1992: sustainable development In 1983, when the Earth’s ecological crisis was becoming ever more apparent, the United Nations General Assembly decided to create an international commission (the World Commission on Environment...
Venezuelan Declaration Toward RIO + 20: Against the Green Economy
We, wrestlers and fighters for the defense of life, gathered in the third Venezuelan Congress of Biological Diversity, we discussed about the multiple dimensions related to the preservation of life by contributing to the deepening of the struggle of the social...
Leaked documents reveal UK fight to dilute EU Green Energy targets | by Fiona Harvey
Allegations of coalition hypocrisy over green issues as critics say documents show UK has caved in to fossil fuel lobbyists The government has been trying to water down key environmental regulations in Brussels despite trumpeting its commitment to green issues at...
The Spear: The ANC’s Pyrrhic victory | by Alexander Matthews
Alexander Matthews says City Press can be bullied but the internet is beyond its reach In a brave new world, the ANC's bullying tactics will fail There has been much gnashing of teeth at the decision made by the editor of City Press, Ferial Haffajee, to remove a photo...




