Abahlali Basemjondolo
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ANC and SACP – Political Merry-Go-Round
The Communists don’t feature as a force of any kind in opinion polls and when it has tried its luck in local by-elections it has been routed, at times struggling to get even a…
The left must eschew xenophobia
Xenophobia offers a simple but misleading explanation for a complex crisis. It reframes mass unemployment, failing public services and weak governance as a question of belonging
Gaza: Steadfastness on the open sea
Countries around the world are increasingly turning against Israel and its aggression in the Middle East. South Africa’s unions and citizens must join in solidarity with…
Xenophobia debases us all
Xenophobia is festering across the world. In South Africa it carries a dangerous legitimacy, cloaked in the language of liberation, and now embodied in open fascism of Operation…
Political gangsterism is a clear and present danger
In collaboration with crooks, political mafias have emerged in which private fortunes are being built on plundered public wealth
Female & Guardian | ‘Policies skewed against women’
UN report finds discrimination against women in land and housing programmes
The land question is about social relations as well as race
Organisations such as South Africa’s Abahlali baseMjondolo, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement and the Diggers in England’s 17th century have faced violent repression from the…
Durban shack and hostel dwellers disrupt Nersa electricity tariff hearings
Ratepayers and activists sided with the protesters who were excluded from the meeting because of a last-minute switch to a much smaller venue
This promised land is a battleground: Inside an eThekwini informal settlement
Murder and fear stalk eKhenana shack dwellers in Cato Manor
Blue lies: Police killings must always be carefully interrogated
South Africa is a terrifyingly violent country, but giving the police licence to kill can only make things worse
Realigning the left: Navigating corruption scandals like VBS and building a mass-based movement
The shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, in a mass meeting recalled and expelled senior members who made a deal with a funeral association linked to Jacob Zuma and VBS…
Abahlali baseMjondolo’s elections choice comes from no choice
The political strategy of the socialist shack dwellers’ movement is grounded in two decades of activism against oppression and for land
Abahlali baseMjondolo’s tactical EFF vote allows us to reimagine democracy
There are good reasons why a social movement would back an opportunistic political party
Abahlali baseMjondolo has made a terrible tactical error by backing the EFF
The large socialist shack dwellers’ movement, in its bid to oust the ANC, may face the prospect of the Economic Freedom Fighters going into a coalition with the uMkhonto weSizwe…
Shack-dwellers’ movement Abahlali BaseMjondolo backs EFF for 2024 elections
Abahlali has previously backed the Democratic Alliance and the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party