Political repression in South Africa
Instead of allowing a robust democracy to emerge, the ANC has viciously quashed self-organised popular movements since coming to power.
Stories by: Tricontinental
Toil and trouble: Brazil’s history of land reform
The struggle for land in the country is inextricably tied to the struggle for agrarian reform that benefits those who work the land, and the recalibration of power relations in society.
Frantz Fanon and the question of praxis
For the university-trained intellectual, Fanon poses a simple demand: to move to a praxis with ‘a mutual current of enlightenment and enrichment’ between protagonists from different social locations.
SA needs an alternative to privatisation
Having lived through Zuma’s kleptomania and still contending with the EFF’s kleptocracy, some South Africans have shifted in favour of neoliberalism. But is this the solution?
The fate of Xolobeni would be the fate of us all
The people of the Eastern Cape village fought a historic battle against an Australian mining company bent on extracting the titanium beneath their land – but the war is not yet won.
A brief history of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union
In 1919, Clements Kadalie formed the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union, which swiftly became a mass movement with support across Southern Africa.
‘Good governance’ and resource plunder in Africa
Mining benefits international corporations and the economic elite at the expense of Africa’s people. Gyekye Tanoh looks past corruption to the structural defects at the heart of this mineral plunder.
Land reform from the ground up
The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research recently conducted an in-depth interview with S’bu Zikode from Abahlali baseMjondolo. This is an edited excerpt.