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The mass murder that signalled the end of apartheid
MARC WADSWORTH reports from the meeting to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre 65 years ago
MEMORY SERVES US RIGHT: (L to R) Activists at The Liberation Movement event; Sharpeville massacre memorial, in Brixton 2018
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RAMZY BAROUD explains why Israel’s political collapse cannot be separated from its war crimes
DAVID RABY charts the ever increasing US attempts at intervention in Mexico’s internal affairs
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ and ROGER D HARRIS highlight how the priority for internationalists should be defending Venezuela’s government against external aggression
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
AMANDLA, the Xhosa and Zulu word meaning power, was repeatedly responded to with “Ngawethu” – “the power is ours” – at The Liberation Movement’s (TLM) UN Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination event that commemorated South Africa’s Sharpeville massacre of peaceful protesters 65 years ago.
The upraised clenched fist that accompanied the defiant words symbolises solidarity and support which was a key symbol of the black South African liberation movement.
A dozen British-based South Africans joined many other community and trade union activists at the central London event on March 21 that had a decidedly internationalist outlook.
Among the speakers was Finland’s first black woman member of parliament, Bella Asha Maria Belaynesh Forsgren, a leading Green League politician, who could not attend in person but sent a moving video message.
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