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• 100 Years Since the Kronstadt Uprising : To Remember Means to Fight !

   
  1er mars, par Sifuna Zonke
  International anarchist statement on the centenary of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising On 1 March, 1921, the Kronstadt Soviet rose in revolt against the regime of the Russian “Communist” Party. The Civil War was effectively over, with the last of the White armies in European Russia defeated in (...)

• Broken world, broken people – we need a path to a better future

   
  1er février, par Sifuna Zonke
  We are living in a world that for most people is broken and that has broken most people. It is not a god given world, but one that has been constructed by those in power and that has left most people mired in deprivation. Under COVID-19, this world has sunk to new lows. All is not … Continue (...)

• The Political Party System : No Friend of the Working Class

   
  17 décembre 2020, par Sifuna Zonke
  The question of state government elections and running a workers or socialist political party continues to be raised in the working-class movement and the Left globally. As we may know, there was excitement about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party in Britain, about the successes of (...)

• Building Trade Union Democracy as Prefigurative Politics in South Africa

   
  7 décembre 2020, par Sifuna Zonke
  In examining the possibilities for politics within and at a distance from the state, it is important to revisit the democratic traditions of the working class, which are often learned through struggles and strikes – and which were exemplified by the new unions of the 1970s and 1980s. Not much of (...)

• Nigeria and the Hope of the #EndSARS Protests

   
  14 novembre 2020, par Sifuna Zonke
  A video went viral on social media platforms on October 3, outlining how the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigerian police force shot a young man, dumped him at the side of the road and stole his car. What followed was three weeks of protests by young people against (...)