https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Soweto-anniversary-is-our-1976-moment-still-to-come https://internationalviewpoint.org/Soweto-anniversary-is-our-1976-moment-still-to-come 2016-06-17T09:10:48Z text/html en Leigh-Ann Naidoo Youth and student movements South Africa Historical events and figures <p>In June 1976, exactly 40 years ago, thousands of high school students took to the streets. They were resisting the apartheid state's insistence that Afrikaans be a compulsory medium of instruction in schools along with English. In October 2015 thousands of university students across the country acted in unison against the annual fee increase. Some have argued that this was our “76 moment” in the new dispensation. I will suggest a different interpretation. I think that #FeesMustFall is more like the 1968/69 moment of university student resistance than the 1976 high school student uprising. The late 60s 1968/69 was a key moment in the world when students pushed the civil rights and anti-war politics of the time into a global movement of cultural resistance.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV497-June-2016-" rel="directory">IV497 - June 2016</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Youth-and-student-movements-+" rel="tag">Youth and student movements</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-South-Africa-+" rel="tag">South Africa</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Historical-events-and-figures-+" rel="tag">Historical events and figures</a>