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He had impeccable credentials. Impeccable even though he missed Seattle but that was for meningitis. He was in the very front ranks at Genoa where he shed blood with a hundred militants and was...
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As Egypt lurches towards democracy, South Africa lurches within it. A comparison between the two countries’ very different struggles. (in Africa Report) 09 February 2011 As a student of revolt I sat...
View ArticleThe Social Movement Hustle
Originally published in New Frank Talk 13, March 2013 On 8 January 2013, Harvard International Review published an article by Heinrich Böhmke, the Social Movement Hustle, on its online journal....
View ArticlePW Botha was defeated, Thatcher lives on
16 April, 2013 (in Le Monde Diplomatique) Street parties thumped in Brixton and Edinburgh the night she died. Hundreds gathered. Anarchists, Old Labour, miners, students. People carried signs,...
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Every two years or so this really nice training gig comes up. I grab two boxes of files and some branded pens, get on two planes and head to Kimberley in the Northern Cape. I’m hired to train a unit...
View ArticleFrom Red to Blue- Abahlali, Survival and Ideology
This article first appeared in Africa Report In May 2014, news broke that a radical shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, had thrown their weight behind the centre-right Democratic Alliance...
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