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05 September 2012 We, the members and representative of 19 community organisations based in the greater Cape Town area; Condemn the massacre of the Lonmin mineworkers and the continued efforts by the state and the Lonmin bosses to smash the strike. These efforts...
BREAKING NEWS-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Government officials must be forced by law to use public services What is good enough for us, should be good enough for you Johannesburg, South Africa, 06 September 2012-September NationalImbizo, SNI, will be going on a protest...
It is a remarkable historical coincidence that Neville Alexander was laid to rest on the very same day that some Marikana workers – most of whom were also from the Eastern Cape - were buried. This tragic incident of the miners represents a turning point in the...
Is it important at a memorial service to use the sanctity of the occasion – sanctified by death, grieving and remembering - also to continue to speak truth to power? Debatable, perhaps, but not, I venture to quess, for Neville. For he lived to so speak: truth to...
(born 22 October 1936; died 27 August 2012) Neville Edward Alexander meant many specific things to many different people. For the most part of his adult life, he grappled with life's contradictions, its dilemmas, its twists and its beauty as a socialist intellectual...
The Democratic Left Front (DLF) joins many activists in South Africa and around the world in mourning the death of Neville Alexander, leader of the Workers Organisation for Socialist Action (WOSA). We extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, comrades...
The death of Neville Alexander on August 27, coming as it does in the wake of the massacre of mineworkers at Marikana, is a double blow. He had the breadth of intellect and depth of knowledge to help the world to understand the significance of these events. Throughout...
A Freedom of Information request with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) by Al-Shabaka has led to the release of new documents on Gaza's gas fields, and surprising new information about the possibility of oil fields in the West Bank. The released documents...
An Israeli judge ruled Tuesday morning that the State of Israel is not to blame for the death of Rachel Corrie, an American who was killed on March 16, 2003 in the Gaza Strip when she she stood in front of an IDF bulldozer that crushed her. The judge called her death...