Sifuna Zonke

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Political label: anarchist communist of the pro-organisational, platform-inspired, especifismo tradition
Region: Africa
Country and town: Johannesburg, South Africa
Employment sector: media and culture
Political group membership: Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
What do your politics mean to you?: Liberty or Death
Favourite thinkers: Kropotkin, Bakunin, Ricardo Flores Magon

Cape Town: two anti-eviction campaigners arrested
On Wednesday, July 2nd at the Bellville Magistrates Court courtroom E, two members of the Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign, Jerome Daniels and Ridwaan Isaacs, were each sentenced twelve months in prison - simply for being community leaders at Delft-Symphony Way settlement.

The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group (Sam Moss, 1930s, USA)
"It is the writer's conviction that the day of the revolutionary party is over; the revolutionary groups under present conditions are tolerated, or rather ignored, only as long as they are impotent; that nothing is so symptomatic of their powerlessness as the fact that they are permitted to exist. We have often stated that the working class which will endure while capitalism lasts, and which cannot be obliterated under this system can alone wage a successful struggle against capitalism and that the initiative can not be taken out of its hands.

Marti, Vicente, 1926-2006
A short biography of Spanish anarchist Vicente Marti who fought in the resistance to Franco and was involved in the anarchist movement in France.