“Human rights cannot transform societies”, Prof. Issa Shivji
In this video interview, Prof. Issa Shivji (Tanzania lawyer and Pan-africanist) and Boaventura Monjane talk about the state of human rights in rural souther Africa, the role of law, popular uprisings and the…
Why I Love Being Black: The Laughter of Protest
When we were little, my sister and I would get into fits of laughter — what my mother lovingly called “a case of the giggles.” “Looks like someone’s got a case of the…
The Lesson from Davos: No Connection to Reality
The rich and the powerful, who meet every year at the World Economic Forum (WEF), were in a gloomy mood this time. Not only because the day they met close to eight trillion…
World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal (Canada): Call to mobilization
By this present call, we are launching an invitation to social movements and citizens around the entire world to make the next World Social Forum (WSF) an essential meeting to share our mobilizations,…
Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa: Occupy, Resist, Develop
The year 2015, the tenth year of the existence of our movement, has almost come and gone. On the 3rd of October we gathered at the Curries Fountain Stadium to celebrate ten years…
Bridges connecting Mozambique and Goa
The Portuguese reached Mozambique in the Indian Ocean, on the African Coast, and India at the same time. In fact, Vasco da Gama set there months before he arrived in India, in 1498….
South African student protests and re-emergence of people’s power
The #nationalshutdown of all major universities in South Africa continues, even after a historic victory yesterday, when, after several days of mass mobilisation by students and workers President Jacob Zuma was forced to…
Statement of European Leftists in solidarity with Syriza
The Struggle For A Different Europe Is Not Over Transform! 18 Sep 2015 “As general elections in Greece approach, the time is ripe to reiterate our solidarity with SYRIZA. In spite of the…
Enforced Disappearance Commission: Truth, Justice and Reparation for Dignity
Enforced disappearance is a prototypical continuous act. The act occurs when a person secretly arrests, detains, tortures and disappears by conflicting forces, but refuses to acknowledge whereabouts of his or her fate TRANSCEND…
Reflections on Selma & Activism 50 Years Later
It’s 50 years after the “Bloody Sunday” March at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and when you’ve crossed over from Selma on your way to Montgomery, Alabama you can see a billboard announcing “Welcome…
