The first difficulty in talking about ‘postmodernism’ is that it is a very imprecise word, with shifting meanings in different contexts. Logically, it should be regarded as the ‘post-’ of ‘modernism’—as something that happens after modernism per se. Now, the term...
Politics
COSATU Statement on the Dalai Lama Visit
The Congress of South African Trade Unions notes the continuing media frenzy around the Dalai Lama’s visit to South Africa.We also note and respectfully differ with the remarks attributed to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in particular the assertion that South...
Whose Terrain?
By Jeremy Cronin, SACP deputy general secretary The mainstream press today has made much of Cronin’s comments as anti-Vavi statements with regards to the Civil Society Conference convened by COSATU recently. Below, read what Cronin had to say in Umzebenzi Online and...
On the Iranian ‘election’ – They must be prosecuted!
Interview with Hamid Taqvaee (Worker-Communist Party of Iran) on the presidential ‘election’ in Iran Kazem Nikkhah: You have said that elections in Iran are a farce though things do happen during each election. Why? Hamid Taqvaee: Calling these events an election is a...



