by Richard Pithouse Numsa's's resolve to break with both the ANC and the authority that the SACP has tried to exert over the union movement carries the potential for a real political opening. The union's commitment to work with other struggles, including community...
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Q&A: Jonathan Jansen
Jonathan Jansen is Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. Amandla!: How did you become involved in education? Jansen: First of all, I wasn't very good at education. I had most of my schooling...
It’s time for the real fight | by Harmony Goldberg
The re-election of Barack Obama represents one of the most important political opportunities of our time. I know that many people on the left will read that opening line, dismiss me as a hopeless radical-turned-liberal and refuse to read any further. They'll be wrong....
The RIO+20 U.N. Conference: An Ecosocialist Assessment | by Ecosocialist International Network
Representatives of governments from all the world will be present at the Rio+20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, June 2012. What can we expect from this so-called “Earth Summit” from a social and ecological perspective? Nothing! Or, to be charitable, very...
Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s moving reflections on the occupation’s 45th birthday | by Henry Norr
Nurit Peled-Elhanan, daughter of a prominent Israeli general and mother of a suicide bombing victim, and her brother Miko Peled have long been among the most courageous Israeli critics of their nation's treatment of the Palestinians, but this year they're really on a...
Occupy Together | by Pierre Rousset
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...
Answering Judge Goldstone’s defense and denial of Israeli apartheid | by Ali Abunimah
What does it mean that Judge Richard Goldstone – he of the Goldstone report – has penned a desperate and propagandistic defense of Israel against what he calls the “apartheid slander” in The New York Times? It’s a classic case of the judge doth protest too much: One...
Answering Judge Goldstone’s defense and denial of Israeli apartheid | by Ali Abunimah
What does it mean that Judge Richard Goldstone – he of the Goldstone report – has penned a desperate and propagandistic defense of Israel against what he calls the “apartheid slander” in The New York Times? It’s a classic case of the judge doth protest too much: One...
Occupy Portland Is Born with Ten Thousand Strong | by Shamus Cooke
It should be no surprise that a city dubbed "Little Beirut" by President Bush Senior — due to the large protests against him — began its "occupation" on a level on par with Wall Street. On October 6th, in Portland, Oregon, ten thousand people assembled at noon at...




