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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
29 Dec 2020
“South African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,” said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has d
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat
A Milestone for South African Shack Dwellers Movement
14 Oct 2020
Abahlali baseMjondolo celebrates 15 years of revolutionary struggle for land, housing and dignity.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Kwaito” Music Moves South African Youth
06 Jul 2020
Xavier Livermon, professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, sees “many parallels” between the US-based Hip Hop phenomenon and the Kwaito music belo
Achille Mbembe
Blacks From Elsewhere and the Right of Abode
15 Jan 2020
Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become “a vast space of circulation.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Talking Marxism But Serving Capitalism in South Africa
14 May 2019
South Africa is the only place in the world where the entire Black political class speaks in the language of Marxism-Leninism, even when they are in cahoots with Big Capital.
Rafael Stedile
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party launched in South Africa
10 Apr 2019
Over a thousand gathered in Johannesburg to attend the Launch Congress of the party which seeks to build socialism in South Africa
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
South African Sex Workers Embrace Feminism
12 Mar 2019
By studying feminism, sex workers learned “that self-identification of being a feminist actually strengthened our sex worker rights politics,” said Nkozo Yingwana, a doctoral stude
by Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary
Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party Vows to Resist South African Government’s Privatization Move
06 Feb 2019
The new party insists that transition to renewable energy must be driven by the working class, not for capitalist profit.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 27, 2019
29 Jan 2019
MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New South African Party to “Overthrow Capitalism”
29 Jan 2019
Irvin Jim, leader of South Africa’s largest union, told a People’s Forum audience in New York City that the newly formed Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party is not “another refor