Political Consciousness from Soweto to Marikana
Did Marikana change everything?
Since the day we first saw images of the police shooting down Marikana mineworkers in August 2012, it seemed
One Year after the Marikana Massacre
What happened at Marikana?
On 16 August 2012 a tactical response unit of the South African police shot and killed 34 striking workers...
Making Universities into Factories
Two histories of reflection on academic life
Performance review: It sounds like a good idea.[1] We can hardly imagine academic life...
The Double Lives of South African Marxism
The implosion of South African Marxism
In April 1986, Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff (1986a) introduced a special issue of...
Ancient Cultures and Modern States
In this talk I will not focus on the current, ongoing struggles of the Kurdish people and the current situation in the Middle East more...
Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism Revisited
The Mediterranean in Global Context
Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea was—as its name suggests—the centre of the world. It was..
Palestine Solidarity across Generations
In his report to the inaugural AGM of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (South Africa) on 20 October 2012, Martin Jansen said that active...
Solidarity with the Palestinian People
“Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
—Nelson Mandela, International day of solidarity with the...
The Philosophers' Cold War
Peter Laslett’s 1956 introduction to a collection of essays on Philosophy, Politics and Society begins by reflecting on the contemporary...
Zen Communist
“Not such a contradiction as all that”
Around the time that Breyten Breytenbach became active in revolutionary politics, he also...