Pavan Kulkarni Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in a mobilization. The shack-dwellers’ movement has called the demolitions “illegal” as it were carried out without a court order. Members are now rebuilding the shacks, vowing to continue the struggle. Over a hundred homes have been destroyed as the South African police, along with personnel of the Anti-land invasion…
Category: SOUTH AFRICA
Libyan Popular National Movement’s Letter to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
Libyan Popular National Movement’s Letter to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – PDF
NAACP Worked with CIA to Subvert African Liberation
During the 1950s, the NAACP conspired with the CIA to lure South African Black liberationists into the US orbit, said Dr. Gerald Horne, prolific author and professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston. The NAACP failed to “flip” African National Congress activists into the anti-communist camp, according to Horne, who’s…
South Africa: Talking Marxism, Serving Capitalism
South Africa is the only place in the world where the entire Black political class speaks in the language of Marxism-Leninism, even when they are in cahoots with Big Capital. What Happened to South Africa’s Freedom Charter? Sixty Years Anniversary of the Freedom Charter Amid Release of Farlam Commission Report
South Africa: No Respite for the Shack Dwellers of Gabon
Nation Nyoka Residents of the Gabon shack settlement in Ekurhuleni have had a tough few weeks. Their possessions and homes have been destroyed and damaged by Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) and the Land Invasion Unit, and they have endured a devastating flood due to heavy rains. Gabon activist, Vusi Khoza, who has recently joined…
South Africa: ANC Hangs on to Power Despite Poorest Performance Since 94
Peoples Dispatch 8 May 2019, Election day in Ekhuruleni. Photo: Madelene Cronjé / New Frame The verdict of the 2019 general election in South Africa has been has been the worst ever blow to the ruling-African National Congress (ANC). The party has been in power since the first democratic elections after the fall of the…
Songs in Revolution
Fezokuhle Mthonti 28 April 2019: The Abahlali baseMjondolo choir performed material from their 2018 debut album ‘Abahlali baseMjondolo: Choral Music in Post-Marikana South Africa’ at Unfreedom Day in Durban. It is not enough to write a revolutionary hymn to be part of the African revolution, one has to join with the people to make this…
The Election in South Africa
From the South: Millions of people across South Africa are voting in an election which many say will be a tough test for the ruling African National Congress. We are joined live by political analyst and journalist Angelo Fick to talk more about this election.
Shack-dwellers Movement Boycotts the ANC and Pledges Vote to SRWP
Peoples Dispatch Hundreds of people attend the Un-Freedom Day celebrations in Durban on 28 April 2019, Organised by the Abahlali baseMjondolo known as the (Shackdwellers Movement in South Africa).Other South Africans marked 27 April as Freedom Day.PHOTO:RAJESH JANTILAL/NEW FRAME Abahlali baseMjondolo Statement on the Elections “A vote for the ANC is a vote.. for the…
What is the SRWP’s Vision for South Africa?
Pavan Kulkarni Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party launch in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo: Rafael Stedile With the slogan “Equality, Work, Land!”, the newly-founded Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) of South Africa is set to contest the general election scheduled on May 8. The party aims to use parliamentary institutions to complement mass struggles, with the slogan…
Phakamile Hlubi Majola: “South Africa Has Never Really Dealt with the Racist Structure of its Economy”
On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, Peoples Dispatch speaks to Phakamile Hlubi Majola, spokesperson of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa ( NUMSA), on the union’s militant struggle over the years and the challenges ahead.
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party Launched in South Africa
Rafael Stedile, Zoe PC Delegates at the Launch Congress of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party. Photo: Rafael Stedile “Equality, work and land” is the slogan of the new radical political party in South Africa that seeks to revolutionize South African politics and contest elections this coming May. The Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) held its…
