It is with a profound sense of sadness that we at AIDC have heard the news of the passing of Carl Brecker, the first Chairperson of the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC). We send our condolences to his family, especially his devoted daughters Tania and Dee, their children as (...)
A new federation officially registered under the name South African Federation of Trade Unions
In the latest issue of Amandla!, we focus on the labour movement. We are soon to witness what some have called a “momentous event in the history of the working class in South Africa” – the launch of a (...)
The fast-reviving South African left is urgently coming to grips with the most acute national crises of structure and agency the country has experienced since the historic freeing of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 and the shift of the entire body politic in favor of the African National (...)
In order to understand the crisis in COSATU, we must view it against the backdrop of ‘20 years of democracy’ and the balance sheet of impacts on poor and working people. Because the liberation struggle was waged in the name of the promise of justice, decent work and security, a sober assessment (...)
Just days after the expulsion of the metalworkers’ union (NUMSA) from the national federation COSATU and the affirmation by the leadership of this union of its project of rebuilding an independent trade union movement in a “socialist" perspective, an amazing unsigned document has begun to (...)
DLF Statement on the Sidikiwe Vukani Vote No Campaign
Though the DLF is not standing in the 2014 elections we cannot and will not be silent. We support the vote No Campaign as articulated by Sidikiwe Vukani. This is a step forward in breaking with support for parties that collaborate with or (...)
DEMOCRATIC LEFT FRONT (DLF)
Urgent Appeal for Support and Solidarity
Comrades, its once again the time to dig deep. Things are beginning to change. The ANC’s hegemony is eroding. Corruption, cronyism, the Marikana massacre and an upturn in working class struggle is rapidly changing the (...)
Statement of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) on the outcomes of its 2nd National Conference 27-30 March 2014.
On the eve of the May national elections the Democratic Left Front held its Second Conference since its formation in 2011 at Stay City in Berea, Johannesburg from March 27–30 2014.
140 (...)
PRESS STATEMENT 23 December 2013
DLF SALUTES THE NUMSA SPECIAL NATIONAL CONGRESS TOGETHER, A NEW SOUTH AFRICA IS POSSIBLE
There is a spectre haunting the ruling class and government in South Africa: it is the radical anti-capitalist movement that the National Union of Metalworkers of South (...)
Numsa General Secretary, Comrade Irvin Jim Input: Cosatu Queenstown local Eastern Cape, 2013 Joe Slovo Memorial Lecture, October 20 2013.
“Comrade Joe Slovo, a Communist Revolutionary working in the Terrain of National Oppression”
"It is obvious that the black capitalist class favours (...)
BRIAN ASHLEY IS the editor of the South African journal AMANDLA! He was interviewed for Against the Current by David Finkel and Dianne Feeley. Against the Current: Please tell us about the magazine Amandla! — what’s your orientation and perspective, and what’s your audience in the overall (...)
Neville Alexander, the South African revolutionary, educationist and acclaimed linguist, died in Cape Town, South Africa on 27 August 2012 following a long battle with cancer. He was 75. He was born in Cradock in the Cape Province. His maternal grandmother was a freed slave from Ethiopia, who (...)
August 29, 2012 — Comrades and friends who have known Neville Alexander through the Workers Organisation for Socialist Action mourn the passing of this great socialist and revolutionary. Neville Alexander dedicated his life to the struggle against oppression and injustice and for the upliftment (...)
Names: Alexander, Dr. Neville Edward — Born: October 22, 1936, Cradock, Eastern Cape province, South Africa — Died: August 27, 2012, Cape Town, South Africa
Teacher, lecturer, banned person, author, advocate of multilingualism in post-apartheid South Africa, a strong proponent of socialist (...)
August 28, 2012 — The Democratic Left Front (DLF) joins many activists in South Africa and around the world in mourning the death of Neville Alexander, leader of the Workers Organisation for Socialist Action (WOSA). We extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, comrades in WOSA, (...)
I knew only one genuine revolutionary in my life, and he died this week. The news floored me, and for an hour I roamed around the office in a daze.
“He was the standard for a revolutionary” “It is not true,” I kept telling myself, for this great man, simply by being present in our country, kept (...)
Neville Edward Alexander meant many specific things to many different people. For the most part of his adult life, he grappled with life’s contradictions, its dilemmas, its twists and its beauty as a socialist intellectual and a revolutionary Marxist since his political baptism in the (...)
The death of Neville Alexander on August 27, coming as it does in the wake of the massacre of mineworkers at Marikana, is a double blow. He had the breadth of intellect and depth of knowledge to help the world to understand the significance of these events.
Throughout his life Alexander, who (...)
Language was the tool of Dr Neville Alexander’s fight for freedom, writes Jonathan Jansen, rector and vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State.
"I was nervous as I made my way through Salt River to my first physical meeting with my childhood hero. No youth of my generation on the (...)
It is unfortunate that the incorporation of important days in the struggle for liberation as public holidays often results in the ritualization and hollowing out of their significance and meaning.
The June 16 uprisings of 1976 marked a turning point in the struggle for liberation. We celebrate (...)
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Francais
RSS 2.0
Twitter
Facebook