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Women and children have been forced to endure the Cape's lashing winter winds and rain sleeping in the open in the Marikana area of Philippi. This is the result of illegal actions by the Democratic-Alliance-sponsored Anti Land Invasion Unit (ALIU), demolishing their...
How ironic that the attack on COSATU comes from within. Ironic but not unexpected. Supporters of the SACP/ANC faction in COSATU want to get rid of Vavi as he is too independent minded and too critical of Zuma and the government. He has been outspoken against the...
A campaign by Nature Kenya and other Environmental Justice Organizations (EJOs) has saved the Dakatcha Woodland Important Bird Area (IBA) from destruction from biofuel crops after Kenya's National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) rejected clearance for a...
Bill Blackwater is a freelance writer and journalist living in London. He is an associate editor of the quarterly Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy and author of the blog We Are All Wotan. His recent articles include The Denialism of Progressive Environmentalists...
Can the poor and the middle classes open a path to change the country? The magical year of 2010, a year of millennial promises and expectations, is drawing to an end, with South Africa still facing multifaceted social, economic, political and ecological crises. In...
There is much more dynamism within the global left, especially in the South, than is often perceived. The rejection of capitalism in many of left movements in the South tends to be accompanied not only by imagining alternatives, but also by shifting views about what...
The South African government is planning to order six nuclear reactors at an estimated cost of R1 trillion. What would the consequences of this be?Before we can understand this, we need to have some other plan to compare it to, which requires an understanding of how...
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, among others, has advocated a return to the gold standard for U.S. currency. He is worried about inflation and the continued devaluation of the U.S. dollar. Capitalist politicians like Paul claim if only the dollar were...
Peter Sagar argues that the fight against racism in football and in wider society has been undermined by Sepp Blatter's comments.So Sepp Blatter thinks that the best way to deal with racism during a game of football is for players to shake hands at the end, as if...