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4 weeks ago | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane |Gilbert Achcar
The ‘America First’ logic, adopted by the US neofascist movement known as MAGA, may seem rational to those who are not familiar with the economic history of international relations. According to Trump and his acolytes, America has spent huge sums of money protecting its allies, especially the rich countries among them, i.e. the geopolitical West (Europe and Japan in particular) and the Gulf Arab oil states.
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1 month ago | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane |James Wilt
Under capitalism, envisioning a shift away from fossil fuels is more difficult by the day.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane |Andrew Ahern
A perspective and analysis from a young, US-based activistOn November 5th, 2024, Donald Trump was re-elected the President of the United States. This comes just four years after his loss in the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden culminated in the insurrection that he helped instigate. From the outside looking in, it is perfectly reasonable to ask how over 76 million Americans could vote for a convicted criminal, insurrectionist and proud authoritarian strongman.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane
As for Israel and the United States, they are cautiously monitoring what is happening on the ground, as the two parties – the Assad regime and HTS – are almost equally bad in their eyes (despite the UAE’s efforts to whitewash the regime and Ankara’s efforts to whitewash HTS). The Zionist state’s main concern is to prevent Iran from seizing the opportunity of this new battle to strengthen its military presence on Syrian territory and find new ways to supply Hezbollah with weapons through it.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane
Here we go again. Smoke them out. Starve them out. They’re only foreigners, after all…although, in fact, many of the informal miners (‘zama zamas’) are actually South Africans. But wherever they come from, they are desperate people. To spend months down an abandoned mine to eke out a living, you would have to be desperate. And their desperation all has the same fundamental cause, whether they come from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho or Klerksdorp.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane
Trade unions in the mining sector are in a unique position when it comes to the just transition. They must protect their members as well as humanity as a whole. Amandla! spoke with Tebogo Lesabe, Legislative Researcher for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Amandla!: What does NUM mean by a just transition?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane |Rob Davies
The transition to a lower carbon economy is accelerating. This is leading important powers in the Global North to depart unilaterally from some neoliberal global trade rules. These are the same rules they themselves ardently promoted just a few years ago. The departures were Justified as necessary to combat the threat of catastrophic climate change. However, some of them could impact negatively on economies of the Global South in general and of Africa in particular.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane
by Nov 18, 2024Amandla, International On 7 November, supporters of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv descended on Amsterdam and violently attacked the people of that city, especially those of Arab origin. The news agencies of the world revelled in describing it as a horrific anti-semitic attack on the Maccabi supporters. The forensic analysis in this video shows how footage which showed Maccabi supporters attacking others was deliberately distorted to appear to be the opposite....
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane |Boaventura Monjane
Mozambique is at a critical juncture, with post-election discontent revealing deep-rooted flaws in its political system. What began as a challenge to the ruling party, Frelimo, following the recent 2024 election has now erupted into a national crisis. The ruling party, once revered for its role in Mozambique’s liberation, is increasingly seen by many as a far-right organisation operating for private interests and international capital.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane
Statement by Anti*Capitalist Resistance Council on the US Presidential electionsDonald Trump won a second US presidency on 6 November 2024. The Republican Party is now in almost total control of US establishment politics as they also made gains in the Senate, giving them control of the entire legislature, the presidency and the Supreme Court. It is a victory for the US Plutocrats and Oligarchs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, the crypto-fanatics and west-coast Tech Bros.
