The piece on corruption is right on the mark (Pambazuka News 127: The Politics of Corruption). It would have been even better if he could have elaborated further on the alternative to passive politics, i.e. how to develop and practice politics which is unambiguously emancipatory. Someone (in France I believe) once said that military and war questions should not be left in the hands of generals alone. The same can be said with politics: left to the politicians alone or their way of doing it, politics can only be disastrous. Emancipatory politics cannot be reduced to seeking to seize state power. Everywhere in the world, people are dissatisfied with politics solely defined by professional politicians. Philosophers and political activists are also tackling the problem. The works of John Holloway (Change the World Without Taking Power), Alain Badiou (An Essay on the Understanding of Evil) and Michel-Rolph Trouillot (Silencing the Past) show that it is not enough to denounce.