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COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of...
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...
FIFTY YEARS AGO, CHILE’S ROAD TO socialism suffered a devastating defeat. On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, spurred by elites, condoned by middle-class sectors and backed by Washington, toppled Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular (Popular Unity, UP). This was...
Amandla! interviewed Norah Mlondobozi, a member of Mopani Farmers Association and the Rural Women's Assembly in Limpopo. Norah Mlondobozi: I am a farmer around Mopani in Limpopo. We are doing cash crops. We are doing vegetables. And then we also have free-range...
FROM A CLASS PERSPECTIVE, resisting austerity is the most important struggle that needs to be waged. It is poor and working-class people who rely on state services. With every cut in the budgets of social security, health, education, housing, policing, land reform...
THE STATE OF THE WATER industry has been a matter of increasing concern in British politics over recent years. More and more stories have surfaced about the excessive dumping of sewage into rivers and seas. In many local areas, especially on the coast or where rivers...
THE WORLD IS IN CRISIS. South African townships and marginalised communities mirror the strife that plagues many poor and working-class communities across the globe. France is in flames: immigrant communities, that French society has failed to integrate, protest...
In his examination of why despite their meagre results at the polls, nine non-ruling communist parties in Europe continue to have sporadic participation in multi-party coalitions in government, Sidney Tarrow indicates that communist parties enter governments during...
Anti-extractivist movements, campaigns and networks such as the Right to Say NO in Southern Africa not only provide powerful critiques of extractivism and the growth-focused development model. They also have radical political potential. They are imagining just and...