This article looks at the upcoming elections in South Africa on the 7th of May. As part of this, it looks at the dangers of activists promoting parties and electing to vote for one party or...
Maurice Brinton's analysis of the bizarre mass suicide of a socialist cult led by American Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, which discusses the dynamics of political sects in general.
The press coverage since Saturday has gone into a well-rehearsed frenzy of 'good protestor/bad protestor'. We think the whole idea of dividing 'good' and 'bad' protest serves only to legitimise police violence and repression. Repression is not provoked by violent actions, but by effective actions.
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