Pambazuka News 665: Popular resistance can deliver: Haiti, Mozambique and South Africa

Global struggles against capitalist economic austerity should take inspirational note of the gains of Spanish workers who have halted the government’s plans to privitise six hospitals. Demonstrations, strikes and occupations deliver results

The seemingly bizarre performance by the deaf signer at Nelson Mandela’s memorial is a manifestation of disorder in South African society. Service delivery protests and the shadow of Marikina haunts the nation, among many other socio-economic and political ills

It often seems that the American national pastime is murderous assault on Black people. The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement’s tally of one racist homicide every 28 hours is surely understated. The more Blacks die, the harder some whites push for broader latitude to kill them. There is no reciprocity in Stand Your Ground. ‘Self-defense means nothing when a black person asserts that right.’

At least $10 billion is believed to have not been remitted to the national coffers by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. A Senate committee is investigating the scam and civil society want the probe completed and stern action taken on perpetrators

Obama has no genuine plan to solve long-term unemployment in America despite meeting with the corporate and financial elite to discuss the matter. Radical organisations must organise to provide a counter-narrative and minimum program of opposition to neoliberalism that continues to exploit low waged workers

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