South Africa’s Human Rights Day remains uncelebrated by the poor
Factions of the elite fund all the political parties, and not one of them is on the side of the people.
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Rare South African unity in support of genocide charge against Israel
We know oppression, and we are always on the side of all oppressed people everywhere.
The art of freedom: Strategies for organising and collective resistance
Stateless democracy is not only possible but is already being built.
ANC profits while KwaZulu-Natal residents thirst
The ANC does not care about poor black people.
Statement on the police killing of Karabo Chaka
Karabo Chaka was shot dead by the police while in the yard of his family home in Slovo Park.
Organise or Starve: Life under lockdown in South Africa’s shackdweller movements
Abahlali baseMojondolo write on the solidarity being shown in the face of State and capital’s violence against impoverished South Africans. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic social movements have been in the forefront of building networks of mutual aid and solidarity. In Brazil our comrades in the Landless Workers’ Movement, the MST, have already
South Africa: Evictions mark first day of national lockdown
Even as police let loose with rubber bullets and beatings against shoppers yesterday in an effort to enforce the new national Covid-19 lockdown, in Durban they were turfing people into the street. The eThekwini municipality evicted residents from the Ekuphumeleleni settlement near Shallcross in Ward 17 on Friday when, at 2pm, nine vehicles linked to
Squatter’s Digest: Grow Heathrow halved, ciao to Asilo
I do have a pretty good excuse for being a little late in writing this month’s column, namely being arrested and remanded for a squatting-related offence (of which I am not guilty for the record, as I will be testifying at trial later in the year). At least I’m not all talk and no walk
South Africa: ANC deploys Apartheid-era tactics against land occupation
The eThekwini Municipality is expecting delivery of four Casspirs – armoured vehicles originally deployed during Apartheid to repress black communities, and now being used to repress political land occupations, reports Abahlali baseMjondolo. Last week the news was full of reports on the arrival of the arrival of three of the four Casspirs that have been
Wealth blinds our rulers to the truth about homelessness
Recently the National Audit Office (NAO) published a study which was of surprise to no-one — notwithstanding the blustering pretend humbug of neoliberals and Tories — showing that welfare cuts cause homelessness to rise. Not so long ago, this would have been a “well duh” report which would itself have risked being written off as
