The union representing the Go-Bet workers says it wants the workers to be preferred creditors as the company still owes them their Covid relief money. MZI VELAPI
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From his roots in a Buenos Aires slum to his irreverence for FIFA and his support for socialist governments of Latin America, Maradona was an icon for the left. MARTIN JANSEN
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Women from informal settlements in Durban and surrounding areas did a 6pm Saturday until 6am Sunday protest to address gender-based violence. SIZWE SIBIYA | SCROLLA
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Last week the Supreme Court of Appeal reversed a decision of the High Court and acquitted two white farmers of the murder of 15-year-old Mathlomola Jonas Mosweu near the town of Coligny. The judges (in three separate judgments) all agreed that the police botched the investigation. But the judgment remained silent on the impact that racial attitudes in the town may have had on the way the matter played out. PIERRE DE VOS | DAILY MAVERICK
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The mandate of the 23 January imbizo is being betrayed by the Chief of Amadiba, Lunga Baleni. The imbizo told Sanral to stop all works with N2 until the communities have decided where they can put their N2 Wild Coast Toll Road. But the leopard could not change his spots. Chief Lunga Baleni, is also a director of the mining company looking to mine the land. AMADIBA CRISIS COMMITTEE
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The blame game and political point scoring over the jobs crisis at the SABC continued in the National Assembly on Tuesday when MPs debated the temporarily suspended retrenchments at the public broadcaster. THABO MOKONE | TIMES LIVE
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The Brazilian educator’s ideas influenced the Black Consciousness Movement and wider struggles against apartheid. For trade unions and grassroot campaigns, they remain important today. ZAMALOTSHWA SEFATSA | NEW FRAME
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While it is not socialist, Iran can be considered one of the principle anti-imperialist nations in the world, along with Cuba, Venezuela, Belarus and North Korea. Because of its anti-imperialism, the U.S. has reserved the full force of its wrath for Iran.
ERIC WALBERG | COVERT ACTION MAGAZINE |
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On Wednesday 25 November, five strikes broke out in the Iranian oil sector. This is a part of a continuing strike wave, which in October saw the largest number of strikes since the Iranian revolution of 1979.
ESAIAS YAVARI | IN DEFENCE OF MARXISM |
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Tens of thousands of public sector workers and employees in Greece also went on a nationwide 24-hour general strike. They were protesting against the devastating coronavirus policies and demanded the confiscation of private hospitals.
KATERINA SELIN | WSWS |
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French parliament late on Tuesday passed a bill on global security, criminalising the publication of images of police officers online. French police on Saturday deployed tear gas against demonstrators at a Paris rally against the 'Global Security' bill in France.
MAXIM MINYAEV, HENRY BATYAEV | SPUTNIK NEWS |
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Jeff Bezos’s company has made vast profits, but at a huge cost to workers and the planet. #MakeAmazonPay says: enough
CASPER GELDERBLOM | THE GUARDIAN
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To combat racism, universities need to stop focusing on incidents and overhaul the structures that perpetuate them.
KEHINDE ANDREWS | THE GUARDIAN |
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On Thursday over 200 million workers held a one day general strike in India. They were joined by farmers in mass actions across the country against the right-wing government of Narendra Modi.
MARIA AURELIO | LEFT VOICE
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Workers in India last week launched a general strike that brought out an estimated 250 million people, arguably the largest in human history. Now, they’re joining hands with farmers to protest Narendra Modi’s pro-corporate, far-right agenda.
THOMAS CROWLEY | JACOBIN MAG |
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For years, UN investigators secretly compiled evidence that implicated Rwandan President Paul Kagame and other high-level officials in mass killings before, during and after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
JUDI REVER, BENEDICT MORAN | M&G |
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On November 15, artisanal miners were buried alive in mine shafts by a Chinese company which was sub-contracted by a Belarusian mining company at Premier Estates on the outskirts of Mutare.
SIMISO MIEVU | CNRG |
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PODCAST
Abiodun Aremu is secretary of the Joint Action Front, a coalition of Nigerian pro-labor civil society organizations. He joins Jacqueline Luqman from Lagos, Nigeria, to explain how #EndSARS is a rejection of neoliberalism, militarism, and the bloody history of U.S. imperialism and European colonization.
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The movement to defeat Brazil’s right-wing authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro made significant advances in the first round of recent local elections.
AARON AMARAL, ALDO SAUDA | NEW POLITICS |
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Speaking at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, Venezuela's Ambassador Samuel Moncada proposed the formation of an "International Alliance Against Unilateral Coercive Measures" to halt the crimes against humanity committed by the U.S. government.
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On December 6, Venezuelans will vote for a new National Assembly. Just as it has done for the past twenty years, the United States is interfering in the election process and has already falsely claimed the elections are rigged.
MARAGRET FLOWERS | CLEARING THE FOG |
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With nearly 12 million cases and a quarter million deaths in the US so far (over 55 million cases and 1.3 million deaths world-wide), the COVID 19 pandemic is ravaging civilization. The disease is on track to be the deadliest epidemic since 1918.
BRUCE LESNICK | COUNTERPUNCH |
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The unprecedented concentration of capital at the global level has cemented the financial power of a transnational corporate elite that uses its economic power to wield political influence and control states.
WILLIAM ROBINSON | TRUTHOUT |
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Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies.
JONATHAN COOKE |
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Many of the crowd attacking Fisk when he can no longer defend himself are precisely the journalists who have the worst record of journalistic malpractice and on some of the biggest issues of our times, like Syria and the ouster of Evo Morales in Bolivia.
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From deep in the archive, a debate on who is a real African was had where the protagonists were President Thabo Mbeki, Max du Preez and the Mda sisters. Harvey weighs in on the debate that are "steeped in abstract and esoteric terms about African culture as if these magically, a priori, confer an African identity on some and not on others".
EBRAHIM HARVEY | M&G |
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Why does the West continue to use the two-state solution as its political parameter for a resolution to the Israeli occupation of Palestine while, at the same time, failing to take any meaningful measure to ensure its implementation?
RAMZY BAROUD | MIDDLE EAST MONITOR |
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There is a campaign to push U.S. president Donald Trump into attacking Iran before he leaves office. It is likely that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo, with the help of Secretary of State Mike Pompous, is the brain behind it.
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Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip cost the Palestinian enclave's economy an estimated $16.7 billion in just over a decade, the United Nations said Wednesday.
THE NEW ARAB |
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An Eskom investigator found that exceedances of particulate matter atmospheric emissions of up to 10 times the allowable limit occurred consistently for extended periods over the past two years at Kendal Power Station.
CHRIS YELLAND | DAILY MAVERICK |
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More than 100 disasters have affected more than 50 million people around the world since March. Though the money needed to protect against these disasters in the countries at risk exists, it’s not getting to those who need it most.
JARIEL ARVIN | VOX |
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Singapore’s approval of chicken cells grown in bioreactors is seen as landmark moment across the meat industry.
DAMIAN CARRINGTON | THE GUARDIAN |
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New Zealand has declared a climate change emergency and committed to a carbon-neutral government by 2025, in what the prime minister Jacinda Ardern called “one of the greatest challenges of our time”.
PHIL TAYLOR | THE GUARDIAN |
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The framework will enable a company to monitor and assess the return on its investments in its employees – in the same way as it measures returns on financial and intellectual capital [1.4MB pdf].
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This briefing paper aims to provide an overview of a) public sector salaries in the context of austerity with a focus on marginalised public sector workers and b) the trends of strike action over the last eighteen years and what we can learn from them [1.6MB pdf].
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Proud, defiant, political. To the world’s neglected and marginalised, he was a figure of hope.
UKI GONI | THE GUARDIAN
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Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago. Modern reformists like to cite Engels as an authority. But until his very last day, Engels fought against reformist ideas and for revolutionary principles.
DOUG GREENE | LEFT VOICE
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the oldest surviving Afrikaans document is an “Arabic-Afrikaans” Islamic scripture dated 1869, circulated at Bo-Kaap mosques. It was written by Abu Bakr Effendi, an Ottoman Sheikh ordered to Cape Town by British Colonial authorities to teach the Muslim community.
BIENNE HUISMAN | DAILY MAVERICK
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