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Interview with Gilbert Achcar Amandla!: The scale of Israel’s attack on Gaza is unprecedented. Do you see this largely as an act of vengeance or does it have a strategic purpose? Gilbert Achcar: Of course, one dimension of it resembles an act of vengeance. But it is...
By phasing in our fiscal consolidation over the medium term, we avoid the social and economic dislocation associated with more rapid adjustments while still stabilising the fiscal position without burdening the economy and future generations with excessive debt....
HAMAS HAS BEEN DEMONISED since its attacks on October 7th 2023, leading to the death of 1,200 Israelis. Where did this party come from and how did it develop? Origins and Development Hamas, the Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement”, was officially...
ON AUGUST 31ST 2023, THE country woke up to the news that a fire had claimed the lives of over 60 people in the Usindiso building in the inner city of Johannesburg. As the death toll rose to 77, so did a national discourse about “hijacking” and blaming of foreign...
ON AN ALMOST DAILY BASIS, criticism of Israel and support for shutdown; for example, the Wei Wei exhibition in London has been closed, and exhibitions in Paris, Berlin and New York have been called off. The world has seen a huge groundswell in support of Palestinians,...
HOW SEVERE ARE SOUTH Africa’s housing and consumer debt crises, and what can be done to address them, at the root, finally; not just with existing tokenistic subsidy measures? By considering the class character of housing, fused with race, gender and environmental...
Nobody who looks around South Africa’s cities and towns can deny that we have the most acute housing crisis.
After the review of the last 30 years of agrarian reform in Amandla! 89, the feature in this issue looks at ‘The housing mess’. Patrick Bond goes back to what he calls “the developer-driven, bank-centred model” of Joe Slovo’s housing policy, and notes how it has...
The Palestinian spirit is unbreakable. Like the mythical phoenix, defiant and heroic Gaza will rise from the fire. The aerial bombardment of Gaza’s most crowded Jabalia refugee camp piles on one massacre after another. It signifies Israeli barbarism and a fascist...