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Brief: Critical Thinking Forum in Johannesburg

Ferial Haffajee asks if we, South Africa, are moving closer towards tyranny. Zimbabwe, she warns, took three years before journalists and newspapers were hounded into submission, or folded. Ferial was one of a panel of four at the Amandla/AIDC and Mail/Guardian Critical Thinking Forum held on 11 August at the Atlas Studios in Johannesburg.
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A Political Economy of the Soccer World Cup 2010

A pictorial view of the Political Economy of the Soccer World Cup 2010 prepared by Patrick Bond
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PRESS RELEASE: Civil Society Organisations Condemn Ban on March For Quality Education

Thursday 27 May 2010 A wide cross-section of civil society – unions, students organisations, faith based groups, community organisations and NGOs – with a collective membership of over a million people, strongly condemn the decision taken by the authorities to ban a peaceful march for the right to a quality public education for all, planned for June 10th 2010.
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The Israeli raid on the Gaza Flotilla is an attack on us all

Amandla! strongly condemns Zionist Israel’s brutal attack on the humanitarian aid activists known as the Freedom Flotilla who in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against the blockade of Gaza were transporting 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people in the Gaza Strip. Approximately 700 activists, volunteers from various countries were carrying supplies for a besieged civilian population because this area has been blockaded by Zionist Israel since 2007 causing misery to the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. The Freedom Fleet was more than 64 km from the coast of Gaza, well in international waters, when it was raided by Israeli commandos causing the death of at least nine people and injuries to tens of others.
Follow the Article Index to see the expressions of outrage of organisations from around the world and to read selected articles analysing this dastardly unprovoked criminal attack.

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Editorial: Put an end to apartheid in South Africa

We have entered a special period of the South African calendar, especially in relation to struggle history. We have just recently celebrated Freedom Day (April 27), May Day (May 1) and are about to celebrate Youth Day (June 16). Yet in the words of the well know film maker, John Pilger, apartheid never died.
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