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South Africa:

COSATU’s history: coming full circle

Interview with Dirk Hartford

South African magazine Amandla interviewed Dirk Hartford, the first head of COSATU media and editor of COSATU News in the 1980s, about the implications of the current tensions in COSATU in April 2013.

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Syria

Self-organization in the Syrian people’s revolution

The following documents are part of a publication on the current experiences of local councils, published in issue number 13 of the newspaper Al Khatt Al Amami ("The Front Line") of the Current of the Revolutionary Left in Syria. Some of the articles are taken from the website of the critical democratic opposition Zaman Alwasl, established in Homs in 2005.

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Britain:

New opportunities for left realignment

The impact of austerity has thrown politics in Britain into turmoil. Both parties of the ruling coalition government (the Tories and the Liberal Democrats) lost heavily in local elections in England last week to UKIP (the United Kingdom Independence Party) – a right wing, populist, anti-immigration party which is pulling all the main parties to the right. Labour’s performance was better but poor; since its answer to austerity is its own brand of austerity and it has pandered to anti-immigrant sentiment.

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