The statement below was issued by the Democratic Left Front(DLF) , a united movement of trade unions, community organisations and political formations in South Africa , formed to resist the policies of neoliberalism of the ANC-led government. The statement deals [...]
Phakamani! Opstaan! is the newspaper of the Democratic Left Front, an organisation in South Africa. This 6th issue of the newspaper provides brief analysis and an interview from the recent wave of mine strikes. Download the PDF here. In this [...]
The following address – the fourth Strini Moodley Annual Memorial Lecture, held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on May 13, 2010 – was delivered by renowned South African revolutionary socialist and theorist Neville Alexander. It was published at http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/173?page=2 with [...]
Norman Traub reflects on the life of the South African revolutionary who has died: Neville Alexander, the South African revolutionary, educationist and acclaimed linguist, died in Cape Town, South Africa on 27 August 2012 following a long battle with cancer. [...]
This article by Phil Hearse first appeared on his site Crisis and Revolt. At least 34 striking miners were shot dead by police yesterday at the Marikana platinum mine 60 miles north of Johannesburg on Friday. This was a planned [...]
Bobby Wilcox, a South African socialist who spent seven years in Robben Island under the apartheid regime, explains how the African National Congress has become notorious for its culture of self enrichment and corruption. In 2007, when accused of profiting [...]
Esther Vivas and Josep Maria Antenas assess the outcome of the Durban summit and argue for : no more “green capitalism”. We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summarize the outcome of the 17th [...]
What, now, are the prospects for a climate deal by Friday at the UN climate summit in Durban? ask Patrick Bond. The biggest problem is obvious: COP17 saboteurs from the US State Department joined by Canada, Russia and Japan, want [...]
This is a press statement from C17 Global Day of Action in Durban. 4December 2011 – On Saturday 3 December, the mid-point of COP 17, about 12 000 people from across the continent and the world gathered in Durban to [...]
The rebellion of the poor has been spreading from town to town, from squatter camp to squatter camp, since 2004. Last week it arrived in Grahamstown. There is no third force, political party or communist academic behind our struggle. It [...]
London SOCIALIST RESISTANCE meeting WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER, 7.30pm, Speaker: Bobby Wilcox President of the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa and prisoner on Robben island. Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, W1 (Warren Street tube) About the recent strikes: In 1992 [...]
Bobby Wilcox reports from South Africa that the football World Cup has more to do with big business than sport. When South Africa was selected to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup, a wave of euphoria engulfed the nation. But [...]
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