South Africa: Apartheid-era tactics reflect the crisis of the government Events over the past week have deepened and accelerated the political crisis. In addition to the relentless student protests for free education, the so-called “war within the government” has intensified. This political turbulence is shaking the country to its foundations. South Africa
South Africa: Dramatic student protests - a harbinger of revolutionary developments This week has seen a dramatic escalation in the student protests which have flared up on a national scale over the past four weeks. The protest movement is sweeping across the country and shows no signs of abating. Protests of the scale and scope of these have not been seen since the student uprisings of the mid-1980s. South Africa
Western imperialism conveniently turns blind eye on events in Yemen As western media overflows with damning images of the atrocities carried out in Syria's Aleppo, the humanitarian disaster in Yemen is being more or less quietly brushed under the carpet. The reason? The west is elbow deep in the Yemeni tragedy. Yemen Imperialism & War Imperialism & War