Pambazuka News 381: Europe, underdevelopment and resistance

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/381/48819slumtalk.jpgIn even the most exploitative African sites of repression and capital accumulation, sometimes corporations take a hit, and victims sometimes unite on continental lines instead of being divided-and-conquered. Turns in the class struggle might have surprised Walter Rodney, the political economist whose 1972 clas...read more

When Eritrea earned independence from Ethiopia in 1991, it was seen by many as a revolutionary moment that would usher in freedom and equality. But more than fifteen years later, the “reality is the liberation-army-turned-government is led by a brutal dictator and his handful cronies. There are no systems of representation or participation in the government. Sadly, those who paid the highest price in the armed struggle, the former fighters men and women are the ones who suffer the most toda...read more

Thank you for your thoughtful and illuminating piece, . Much needed analysis from outside of the narrow confines of a poverty paradigm, and well beyond the official 'criminal' supposition. In my own observations of the unfolding crisis in Johannesburg (some of which have been captured in a recent past issue of this fine website) it was clear that the attacks were not simply confined to 'foreigners', and this is now confirmed by the report yesterday that 21 of the deaths were of SA nationals....read more

Thank you for the article, which is rational, academically sound and most illuminating. A refreshing antidote to the often myopic, hysterical and misleading nonsense published in the local, popular media.

The article, deals very clearly with some historical myths being perpetrated in the name of racial superiority. I have recently been checking out Angola on google earth and all over it is tagged by some military nostalgists talking about great victories of the SADF special forces and claims of non discrimination in those forces.

Aluta Continua!

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