We are the restless majority - S'bu Zikode S'bu Zikode's article after Abahlali baseMjondolo's successful anti-electoral campaign in 2006.
The police and Abahlali baseMjondolo This list of police abuses suffered by Abahlali baseMjondolo between 19 March 2005 and 13 November 2007 is an important document of record.
Britz, dir. Peter Kosminsky, Channel 4, 2007. Television review – Tom Jennings Juggling simplistic stereotypes, Channel 4’s Britz illuminates neither the attitudes of UK Muslims nor the motivations of homegrown jihadists, concludes Tom Jennings.
Sicko, dir. Michael Moore, 2007 Film review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ review of Michael Moore’s new documentary tragi-comedy on the American health (dis)service
RMT and TSSA vote for joint strike action RMT station staff and train operator members voted Thursday by a margin of five to one for strike action in defence of safety on the London…
TV Times - 29 March - 4 April 2008 This week's highlight is an undercover report into the current Tibetan situation.
Three day strike at Venezuelan steelmaker Workers launched a 72-hour strike at Venezuela's largest steelmaker, Ternium Sidor, late on Tuesday to protest stalled contract talks.
Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond - Collective Reinventions An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity…
10,000 jobs to go in Northern Ireland Almost 10,000 jobs could be lost across Northern Ireland's government departments.
Struggle is a school: the rise of a shack dwellers movement in Durban, South Africa This article by Richard Pithouse, first published in Monthly Review, charts the rise of the militant South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo which first emerged in 1995 and has gone from strength to strength since then despite severe state repression.
The Street, by Jimmy McGovern, BBC 1, November-December 2007. Television review Review of The Street, series 2 - the latest TV drama from Jimmy McGovern .
A critique of the Zapatista "Other Campaign" - Grupo Socialista Libertario A critique by the Mexican "Libertarian Socialist Group" of recent EZLN "Zapatista" policies centred on the "Other Campaign", including the political campaigning and cult of celebrity of Marcos; and analysis of their political programme as left-capitalist constitutional reformism, i.e., only a defence of Mexican domestic capital and state - "bourgeois protectionism" - against the encroachments of international neo…
