Members of the National Union of Teachers are set to take part in the first national teachers strike in 21 years in response to the government's failure to keep pay-rises in-line with the rate of inflation.

Abahlali baseMjondolo press release in response to media confusion between Abahlali and the World Bank sponsored NGO Slum Dwellers International (SDI), critiquing mainstream development discourse. A press release from SDI is also provided.

Six activists from the Abahlali baseMjondolo in court on murder charges have been released with all charges dropped.

16,000 Swazi textile workers look set to resume strike action this Wednesday if their demands for better pay and benefits are ignored.

Philani Zungu offers a brief but powerful account of the lived experience of life as a shack dweller under democracy in South Africa.

S'bu Zikode wrote this article in early 2007 when he was finally forced out of his job at a petrol station as punishment for his political activities with Abahlali baseMjondolo. As of March 2008 he remains unemployed.

Article restating Abahlali baseMjondolo's anti-statist, anti-electoral politics seen as more or less…

Philani Zungu's article arguing against the lip-service of politicians of 'service delivery' to…

S'bu Zikode's article after Abahlali baseMjondolo's successful anti-electoral campaign in 2006.

This list of police abuses suffered by Abahlali baseMjondolo between 19 March 2005 and 13 November 2007 is an important document of record.

Juggling simplistic stereotypes, Channel 4’s Britz illuminates neither the attitudes of UK Muslims nor the motivations of homegrown jihadists, concludes Tom Jennings.

Tom Jennings’ review of Michael Moore’s new documentary tragi-comedy on the American health (dis)service