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/Social-Movements-in-South-Africa https://internationalviewpoint.org/Social-Movements-in-South-Africa 2012-09-05T07:34:21Z text/html en Zachary Levenson South Africa <p>A middle-aged woman continued stuffing an old tire with bits of straw, refusing to stop as two younger men pleaded with her not to ignite it. She didn't seem to take them seriously, presumably because one of them was wearing a Democratic Alliance (DA) shirt, the reigning party in the Western Cape and largely despised by black voters. It was hard to hear the substance of the debate over the chanting of struggle songs and vigorous toyi-toyiing, not to mention the crowd shouting down officers in an SUV marked “Anti-Land Invasion Unit.”</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV452-September-2012-" rel="directory">IV452 - September 2012</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-South-Africa-+" rel="tag">South Africa</a>