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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Irvin Jim |Salim Vally |Anima Adjepong |Ann Garrison
In a reactionary torrent of false claims, culminating in an executive order to suspend aid to South Africa, Donald Trump is attempting to wield the might of the United States to stand in the way of its land reform process. The number of carjackings in South Africa exploded after voters of all races went to the polls for the first time in 1994 to abolish apartheid and has remained high ever since, befitting what is, by the most commonly used yardstick,.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Salim Vally |Andrew Stevens
In March 2023 at the annual Palestine lecture at the University of London’s School of Oriental African Studies,1 I said that while Israel has always been a settler-colonial apartheid state maintained through military rule, we needed to be very concerned that under the present Israeli government the situation would not just go from bad to worse but that, at a certain point, the quantitative change would become qualitative.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Hanna Eid |Ann Garrison |Salim Vally
The ruling SWAPO party says it is upholding international law. During late August the Republic of Namibia drew the attention of the international community by publicly announcing it would not allow a vessel carrying explosive materials to the State of Israel to dock at one of its ports. The ruling South-West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) stated that its actions were in line with international law where Tel Aviv has been found guilty of violating the Genocide Convention of 1948.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Salim Vally
As a revolutionary public intellectual, activist, and former political prisoner, Neville Alexander was one of the most important theorists of the relationship between racism and capitalism to emerge during the struggle against South African apartheid. His activities and ideas remain a reference point for some of the key debates in contemporary history not only in South Africa but internationally.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Salim Vally |Anima Adjepong |Ann Garrison |Margaret Kimberley
With its recent historic loss of the Parliament majority, the African National Congress has formed a coalition with the Democratic Alliance, heir to the old apartheid regime, demonstrating its failure to live up to its Freedom Charter. Before this dubious deal was done, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa explained why this development was so dangerous to the nation and such a grave betrayal. Originally published in NUMSA.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Salim Vally |Federico Fuentes |Interview Palestine
Socialist and human rights activist Salim Vally began his activism back in 1976 as a South African Students’ Movement leader in the fight against the country’s apartheid regime. Today, he heads up the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and is a coordinating committee member of the South African BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) coalition, which helped organise the recent Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Salim Vally |Federico Fuentes
Socialist and human rights activist Salim Vally began his activism back in 1976 as a South African Students’ Movement leader in the fight against the country’s apartheid regime. Today, he heads up the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and is a coordinating committee member of the South African BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) coalition, which helped organise the recent Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Claudia O'Brien Moscoso |Ann Garrison |Salim Vally
The United States uses its power within the United Nations and the concept of human rights to cover its plans for regime change. Originally published in Counterpunch. When the United Nations sets up a “commission of inquiry,” it can result in a powerful analysis of violations of human rights law, such as the one appointed in 2021 to examine Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and its Apartheid practices.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
greenleft.org.au | Salim Vally
South Africans are deeply disturbed by the character assassination and threats levelled against Leila Khaled, an icon of anti-colonial struggle. Khaled is held in high esteem in the Majority World and was embraced by Nelson Mandela when she first visited South Africa in 2006. Mandela — who was also called a “terrorist” by many leaders in the West — rejoiced in meeting Khaled and spoke for most South Africans when he expressed his admiration for her courage, sacrifices and fortitude.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Salim Vally |Margaret Kimberley |Danny Haiphong
On this anniversary of the death of Malcolm X, it's important to reflect on his life and the true meaning of human rights. We are republishing this 2021 essay from our Editor, Ajamu Baraka, that discusses the framework of People(s)-Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition. The West’s fiction of “human rights” has been weaponized by neoliberals to rationalize naked imperialist interventions.
