Many people within South Africa and the global Jewish community are determined in their attempts to portray the Jewish community as homogeneous and unified in their consensus in support of the Israeli government's actions. We wish to add our voices to the growing...
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Syria’s Bloody Civil War: an interview with Gilbert Achcar
Interview with Gilbert Achcar, academic, writer, and activist, Professor at the Development Studies Department at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London (SOAS). Amandla!: What would you say to those who argue that the Syrian uprising may be an opening...
All That Is Solid Melts Into Sewage
February 14, 2013 The hyenas awake! (Apologies to actually existing hyenas, who are deeply impressive and sexually progressive beasts apart from their scrawny hind-legs.) The cannibals are sharpening their carving-knives! The vultures circle in the sunset! The...
Egypt: and the revolution?
Interview with Hani Serag, Egyptian democracy activist and part of Peoples Health Movement. This interview was done before Morsi issued a series of decrees giving him sweeping powers, triggering a new nationwide uprising in Egypt. Amandla!: Has Egypt's Arab Spring...
Neville Alexander 1936-2012 A prophet rather than a politician | by Francis Wilson
With the death this week of Neville Alexander South Africa has lost one of it's greatest, and possibly least appreciated, sons. Political thinker & activist; teacher & author; academic of renown and genuine revolutionary Neville Alexander inspired generations...
Neville Alexander 1936-2012 A prophet rather than a politician | by Francis Wilson
With the death this week of Neville Alexander South Africa has lost one of it's greatest, and possibly least appreciated, sons. Political thinker & activist; teacher & author; academic of renown and genuine revolutionary Neville Alexander inspired generations...
The rabbits of counter-revolution
by Jared Sacks To those of us that know revolution and understand the manner in which the composition of forces are repositioned and counter-hegemony is asserted by the revolutionary left, it is becoming increasingly clear that a new counter-revolutionary threat...
Book Review: ‘Gaza in Crisis’ by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe | by Azhar Ali Khan
British human rights activist Frank Barak cooperated with Noam Chomsky, perhaps the world’s most insightful and conscientious thinker, and with Ilan Pappe, Israel’s sharpest, bravest and most conscientious historian, to present to the world a balanced narrative of the...
At Rio+20: Values versus prices | by Patrick Bond
[RIO DE JANEIRO, JUNE 18, 2012] Given the worsening world economic crisis, the turn to Green Economy rhetoric looms as a potential saviour for footloose financial capital, and is also enormously welcome to those corporations panicking at market chaos in the...





