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Most of what you read or hear in mass media about President Hugo Chavez is always negative, his faults exaggerated, his discourse distorted and his achievements ignored. The reality is quite different. Hugo Chavez was beloved by millions around the world. He changed...
Silicosis lawsuit filed against South Africa's gold miners. After decades of chronic and systematic neglect of mine-related diseases, a bold class action suit was filed in August on behalf of up to half a million black mineworkers, who had been worked to death or sent...
Language was the tool of Dr Neville Alexander's fight for freedom, writes Jonathan Jansen, rector and vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State. "I was nervous as I made my way through Salt River to my first physical meeting with my childhood hero. No youth...
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...
The Health Workers Society (HWS), founded in 1980, was one of several progressive health organisations that fought for a democratic health system in South Africa. We document the sociopolitical context within which it operated and some of its achievements. HWS, many...
There is something problematic with advocating a 30-hour work week at the beginning of the 21st century: a 30 hour week is not short enough! With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? Not...
Medicine, social conditions, culture and politics are inextricably bound as determinants of health and wellbeing. In Cuba, perhaps this is nowhere more evident than in the arduous struggle to consider non-discriminatory analysis of gender-sensitive components as...
Dr. Mads Gilbert and a team of Palestinian surgeons prepare emergency treatment at al-Shifa hospital during Israel’s invasion of Gaza in January 2009. (NORWAC) For many people around the world, Israel’s three-week attack on the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009...
On June 3, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed 80 days of a grueling hunger-strike. He had sustained the strike despite the fact that nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates had called off their own 28-day hunger strike weeks ago. Although the...