VICTORY for Marikana – Lonmin workers 22% = R11 000! Now for the struggle for Justice A heroic struggle has tasted its first victory. The reported wage settlement with Lonmin of R11 000 is a massive victory, nothing less than the murder and sacrifice of so many...
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It’s the coal, stupid
South AfrIca's coal-fuelled development path delivers jobs that are less than decent and results in massively negative externalities – water contamination, air pollution, loss of farmland and community commons and livelihoods. With theexception of Sasol, coal is still...
Chancellor House | by Eleanor Momberg
Chancellor house has become symbolic of the precariously close nexus between the state and the ruling party, and the creation of fortunes not only for maintaining power but also to benefit individual members of the ruling elite. Though controversy stalks the ANC...
The failed emergence of Egypt, Turkey and Iran | by Samir Amin
These three Middle Eastern states should normally have been found in lists of today’s ‘emerging’ states. They have each attempted, in the past, to modernise as a response to the challenge from Europe. Egypt attempted this under Pacha Mohamed Ali of the nineteenth...
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...
The UN’s ‘Green Economy’ plan is a destructive illusion | by Pablo Solon
Pablo Solon was chief negotiator for climate change and United Nations Ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia from 2009 to June 2011. Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, the...
The people of the world confront the advance of capitalism: Rio +20 and beyond
La Via Campesina Position Paper - June 6, 2012 Governments from all over the world will meet in Río de Janeiro, Brazil from June 20-22 2012, to supposedly commemorate 20 years since the “Earth Summit,” the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development,...
Wage restraint won’t help the jobless | by Mazibuko K. Jara
Government's New Growth Path document calls for a social pact that includes a proposed wage restraint, which means workers would moderate their wage demands. Various monetary-policy statements by the Reserve Bank, research reports by Adcorp and other comments by...
The UN’s `Green Economy’ plan is a destructive illusion | by Pablo Solon
Focus on the Global South Pablo Solon was chief negotiator for climate change and United Nations Ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia from 2009 to June 2011. Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro,...


