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Right to Say No pamphlet

The National Right to Say No campaign is excited to share a short information pamphlet that speaks to what the Right to Say No campaign is, the demands being made by communities affected by extractivism and who can say no.…

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WAR IN UKRAINE: VOICES FROM THE UKRANIAN LEFT

The left internationally and in this country has struggled to know how to position itself in relation to the war in Ukraine. Between Putin’s nationalist and imperialist ambitions, NATO expansion and the reactionary nature of the Ukraine regime, where and…

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Op-Ed: Austerity at Sars threatens state capacity and public service stability

By Dick Forslund and Brian Ashley | DailyMaverick | 23 May 20222  Dick Forslund is senior economist at the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC). Brian Ashley is the editor of AIDC’s magazine Amandla. Disclosure: This article is a part of a series…

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OPINION | Climate change: We are wedded to our own suicide

By Jeff Rudin Richard Calland covers a lot of ground in his article, “No walls high enough to stop climate change” (Mail & Guardian 6 May 2022). What stands out are the reasons he offers for the “bewilderment that an issue that…

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Amandla #81 Editorial | Take back the unions for their members

WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING IN the labour movement today is quite simply a tragedy. At a time when the working class is suffering as never before, leaders of Saftu are tearing the young federation to pieces.  The working class needs…

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The Right to Say No Campaign: Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit for Alternative Development!

On Human Rights Day, 21 March 2022, hundreds of land activists and community members from six provinces in South Africa gathered in Xolobeni, Eastern Cape to attend a Peoples’ Summit for Alternative Development and to commemorate the sixth anniversary of…

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Budget 2022/3 statement: Tell no lies, claim no easy victories

Budget 2022/3 statement: Tell no lies, claim no easy victories by Cry of Xcluded | 23 February 2022 “Accordingly, we have decided to keep money in the pockets of South Africans.“ – Minister Enoch Godongwana This is an ideologically driven…

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TUED Global Forum: February 25, 2022, 8:00-9:30am ET

Register here. At COP26 in Glasgow, the EU, the US and the UK announced it was going to “mobilize” $8.5 billion to accelerate South Africa’s transition away from coal in order to protect the climate. A month later the IMF “advised”…

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AoU/Cry of the Xcluded to host a two-day People’s Summit!

The Assembly of the Unemployed / Cry of the Xcluded is hosting a two-day National convergence for the implementation of a Basic Income Grant and putting an end to budget cuts ahead of the National Budget Day. It is becoming…

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Identity: A (seemingly) good idea with malignant consequences that fan xenophobia and race war

Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick |  14 Feb 2022 Julius Malema and the EFF lose no opportunity to fan a race war against white (and Indian) South Africans. We have made their demagogy very easy by the perpetuation of the…

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