Beyond ‘White Monopoly Capital’: Who owns South Africa?

Beyond ‘White Monopoly Capital’: Who owns South Africa?

by | Aug 22, 2016

BEYOND ‘WHITE MONOPOLY CAPITAL’ WHO OWNS SOUTH AFRICA? Lucien van der Walt | Originally published SA Labour Bulletin | July/August 2015 The debate on ‘white monopoly capital’ has some blind spots as it omits the role of the state in ownership and control of the means...
Why popular movements win: the student movement in Quebec

Why popular movements win: the student movement in Quebec

by | Aug 23, 2016

  All the time, everywhere, people resist. Sometimes openly, sometimes secretly. Sometimes locally, sometimes more broadly. As Mao said “Where there is oppression, there is resistance”. Some popular movements are victorious, while many others lose. As activists we...
Rejecting Postracialism: Whiteness, Morality and Decency

Rejecting Postracialism: Whiteness, Morality and Decency

by | Sep 12, 2016

By: Richard Raber. Origially published in the Daily Maverick Rejecting Postracialism: Whiteness, Morality and Decency Beginning with the contention that most white people view racism conceptually as bad, evil or at least something that is undesirable to be associated...
Restoring ESKOM – what’s making it ill?

Restoring ESKOM – what’s making it ill?

by | Sep 15, 2016

Restoring ESKOM – what’s making it ill? (Paper presented by Jeff Rudin at an EG-SA meeting on Restructuring Eskom, 7 Sept 2016) Mention the word ‘Eskom’ and the standard response, once the eye-rolling and hair pulling is over, is the near-unanimous cries of...
Amandla Feature – Is our 76 moment still to come

Amandla Feature – Is our 76 moment still to come

by | Oct 3, 2016

Is our ’76 Moment Still to come? By Leigh-Ann Naidoo for Amandla 46 In June 1976, exactly 40 years ago, thousands of high school students took to the streets. They were resisting the apartheid state’s insistence that Afrikaans be a compulsory medium of...