The Noise of Cairo Director Heiko Lange (2012) This film looks at the explosion of creativity in the 18 days that shook the world in Egypt 2011 and led to the fall of the Mubarak regime. It gives us the perspective of dancers, street musicians, poets, graffiti artists...
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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...
Barclays, the City, and a system in crisis | by James Meadway
Barclays was fined after admitting attempting to rig the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), a measure of how much it costs banks to borrow from each other. Libor is calculated by taking an average – each morning - of the rate that banks report they can borrow at....
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“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” Frantz Fanon The South African crisis: Post-apartheid South Africa can only be described as in a continuing state of crisis. After nearly twenty years of jobless...
The ANC’s Second Transition: Another Dead-End? | by Vishwas Satgar
The ANC heads to its policy conference in June, after being South Africa’s ruling party for almost two decades. There are many ideas and policy perspectives up for discussion but the ‘big idea’ framing the discussion is the notion of a ‘second transition’. A whole...
The revolution and the emancipation of women – A Reflection on Sankara’s Speech, 25 Years Later | by Amber Murrey
I would like to situate my ideas within the geo-political context of the popular uprisings that continue to take place around the world as people organise against neoliberal policies of advanced capitalism and their resultant gross inequalities in wealth, health and...
Radio Tahrir (Part I): The Arab Awakening | by Tariq Ali
This is a transcript of one of the two main interviews during Radio Tahrir, a marathon looking back on the Arab awakening, the Indignados and the Occupy movement, live recorded at the Kaaitheather, Brussels, 11th of March 2012, conceived and moderated by Lieven de...
Uneven and combined Marxism within South Africa’s urban social movements | by Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai and Trevor Ngwane
(Another contribution to the debate about what's wrong with those pesky urb soc mvts: We agree with Andrew Nash that the answers to these questions will not come through the elaboration of a new, ‘proper’ Marxist line by mainly university-based, white intellectuals,...
Contentious Politics and the Climate Justice Movement | by Jacklyn Cock
‘Ask for a camel when you expect to get a goat’ Introduction The climate crisis is deepening. Despite 17 years of multinational negotiations there is no binding global agreement on the reduction of carbon emissions. In fact carbon emissions are rising which means...





