Towards a General Strike Interview with Zwelinzima Vavi | Amandla 76 | June/July 2021 Amandla! interviewed Zwelinzima Vavi, SAFTU General Secretary Amandla!: One way to assess the state of the trade union movement is to look at the proportion of workers who are...
SACP militants need to come out Mazibuko Jara and Gunnet Kaaf | Amandla Online | June/July 2021 Where were the 22 million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union when things were going wrong in that vast territory? This rhetorical question was asked by...
Unions In Crisis: Has The Union Form Outlived Its Usefulness for Workers? By Dale T McKinley | Amandla 76 | June/July 2021 The general frame: A deep, systemic crisis There can be little argument that the world of work in South Africa, and indeed globally, is in...
Green Colonialism Tshiamo Malatji | Amandla 76 | June/July 2021 An environmentalism that relies on an imperialist organisation of the world is not an environmentalism that serves Africa. The Green New Deal (GND), packaged as the most ambitious environmental policy...
Amazon wages war against unions Alex Press | Amandla 76 | June/July 2021 When workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, decided to unionise, the trillion-dollar company, marshalled by the world’s richest man, waged a war against them. The warehouse - Amazon...
EFF organises and represents workers Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi, Head of EFF Labour Desk, interviewed by Mazibuko Jara Amandla 76 | June 2021 Mazibuko Jara: When it comes to organising workers, what is the strategic thinking? What do you want to achieve? Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi:...
The EFF will not bring the change South Africans need Andile Zulu | Amandla 76 | June 2021 Approaching local elections, beyond its spectacles of defiance and never-ending episodes of controversy, what do the politics of the Economic Freedom Fighters have to...
Corruption is a class project - Amandla 76 Editorial Editorial | Amandla 76 | June 2021 The scandal surrounding the Health Minister is symptomatic of a terrible disease gripping South Africa. Literally, billions of rands are looted, not just by the predatory elite (a...
Issa Shivji: Reclaiming Pan-Africanism for social emancipation Amandla interview with Issa Shivji | Amandla! Magazine | Issue 67/68 | December 2019 This was a presentation at the Southern African People's Solidarity Network (SAPSN) People’s Summit - August 2019,...
After the “Numsa moment”: towards a party of a new kind. Niall Reddy | Amandla 75 | March 2021 "From Podemos to Sanders, a new wave of parties and electoral coalitions have emerged and made rapid gains" Over the last decade, the Left in a number of Western countries...
The lessons of the Indian farmers’ struggle Sushovan Dhar | Amandla 75 | March 2021 The unions were determined to have a tractor rally on Republic Day. No other Republic Day has witnessed such unprecedented levels of public claims over their...
WhatsApp and anti-capitalists: should you stay or should you go? Jane Duncan | Amandla 75 | March 2021 "Facebook has given itself the right to share any data collected by WhatsApp in terms of its privacy policy." What’s up with WhatsApp? How should anti-capitalists...
Connecting the dots: Covid, climate and capitalism. Jacklyn Cock | Amandla 75 | March 2021 The climate crisis and the Covid–19 pandemic are connected through the violation of ecological limits.The worst affected, the “shock absorbers” of both crises, are the African...
Covid-19 and the awakening of the arts sector Mike van Graan | Amandla 75 | March 2021 Pretoria State Theatre. More than R300 million is spent on theatre infrastructure inherited from the apartheid era in Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and Bloemfontein with the Market...
Vaccine imperialism: if no one is safe until everyone is safe, then no one is likely to be safe Jack Gerson | Amandla 75 | 31 March 2021 Downtown mall area of Sai Paolo, Brazil. Highly transmissible and resistant variants have emerged in the UK, Brazil, and South...
The Brazilian disaster – An intersection between authoritarian, covid-denialism and austerity Benjamin Fogel | Amandla Online | 31 March 2021 Benjamin Fogel | Amandla Online | 31 March 2021 Brazil is collapsing under the weight of an uncontained Covid-19 outbreak and...
Covid-19 vaccines – the new apartheid? Lydia Cairncross and Fatima Hassan | Amandla 75 | March 2021 At the end of February, ILRIG held a webinar on the issue of Covid vaccines. Two of the speakers were Fatima Hassan, Director of the Health Justice Initiative, and...
Global vaccine system fails poor countries Yousuf Vawda | Amandla 75 | March 2021 The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has not as yet been able to find consensus on a waiver to suspend certain intellectual property rules that are blocking access to diagnostics,...
Covid-19 vaccines – inequality and the politics of health Leslie London and Lauren Paremoer | Amandla 75 | March 2021 Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai, India. This inequality will kill people on a global scale, as it did with HIV until civil society forced Big Pharma to cede...
Produced by Uhuru Productions, Everything Must Fall is a documentary that offers: An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education, and morphed into the...
Austerity can be defeated- Amandla 75 Editorial Editorial | Amandla Magazine Issue 75 | March 2021 The rapid spread of struggles against financial exclusion, from Wits University to other tertiary campuses, may just be the vital spark for the coming together of a...
Anti-Apartheid International Solidarity: Lessons for Renewing Internationalism Today Gunnett Kaaf - The Left Dialogue Forum. 13-14 March 2020| Amandla Online The anti-apartheid international solidarity was forged on the global terrain of the capitalist world system...
Gender-based violence: alternatives to incarceration Sohela Surajpal | Amandla Issue 73/4 | December 2020 Last year, South Africans took to the streets after the tragic rape and murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana, a University of Cape Town student murdered by a postal...
The lie of 1652: race and class in South Africa Interview with Patric Mellet Amandla Issue 73/74 | December 2020 Amandla!: Who is Patric Tariq Mellet? Patric Mellet: I’m from Cape Town - District 6 and Woodstock. Our most overarching identity is that we were poor...