On November 17, the United Nations Security Council voted for a brazenly colonial plan for Gaza. The vote crystallized a truth long…
Richard Pithouse
Last week the tenth anniversary of the massacre of striking miners at Marikana was marked in South Africa. The televised state murder…
We will strive to keep a clear and vigilant eye on the lived experience of oppression and resistance, and to develop new frames for making adequate sense of our time and place, and prospects for a better future
In Texaco, his novel about the history of a shack settlement in Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau writes of a ‘proletariat without factories, workshops,…
The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They’re set on flat windswept plains amidst the…