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South Africa was the hope of the world. It had an impressive and rich tradition of left politics. At the heart of post-apartheid democracy-making was a revolutionary nationalist ANC, the oldest Communist Party in Africa, the SACP, and one of the most militant labour union federations in the world, COSATU. Yet, South Africa is at a crossroads and many are deeply concerned about its future. This book explains through a political economy/ecology analysis why and how the degeneration of national liberation politics has happened, while making praxis-centered arguments for a new transformative left politics.
Contents
Preface Writing Among, with and for the Many
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Acronyms
Note on Texts and Terminology
Introduction
Part 1
Resisting Revolutionary Orthodoxy, Neoliberal Market Democracy and Emergent Neo-fascism
1 Contributing to a Democratic Imaginary in the sacp
1 Workplace Forums and Autonomous Self-management from Below
2 The Visible Hand of Development Planning in India: Lessons for South Africa
3 Cooperative Banks in South Africa: A Brief Survey
4 Militarisation in Southern Africa: Trade Unions and the Prospects for Peace
5 Worker Owned Cooperatives, Development and Neo-liberal Economic Adjustment
6 Be Partisan for Peace
7 Socialism and Sustainable Local Economic Development
8 In Defence of the sacp and the Struggle for Socialism in South Africa: A Response to the Committee Document
2 Rejecting the Fraud of the National Democratic Revolution
1 A Critique of Government's Macro-economic Strategy: Growth, Employment and Redistribution
2 Neoliberalised South Africa: Labour and the Roots of Passive Revolution
3 Global Capitalism and the Neo-liberalisation of Africa
4 The Marikana Massacre and the South African State's Low Intensity War against the People
5 Beyond Marikana: The Post-apartheid South African State
6 Epidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa
3 Opposing Zumafication in the sacp and Outside
1 Reflections: The Age of Barbarism
2 We Need a Truly Transformative Democracy
3 'No!' Tells the anc Enough Is Enough
4 Protests Mustn't Harm Our Future
5 Fees Protests: History Shows True Revolution Lies Not in Violence
6 Its Up to Us to Make Sure Zuma Goes
7 The eff's Wrecking Ball Politics Is Fascist Rather than Left
8 Zuma's Cabinet Reshuffle Inaugurates South Africa's Zimbabwe Moment
9 South Africa Must Resist Another Captured President, This Time by the Markets
10 Trump May Be Gone, but Neo-fascism Remains Alive and Kicking in Mainstream American Society
11 South Africa Is Turning on Itself
12 International Mandela Day - Respondent to Keynote Address of President Cyril Ramaphosa, 18 July, 2021
13 Without a Serious Challenge from the Left, the Political Field in South Africa Could See the Emergence of an Extreme Right
4 The Challenge of Left Renewal in the Context of Worsening Capitalist Crisis
1 The Left Project and Post-national Liberation Politics
2 There Is a Democratic Left Response to the Global Crisis
3 Occupying the Economy
4 Reclaiming a Vision of Hope and a Life of Dignity
5 Numsa Moment Leads Left Renewal
6 Between Crisis and Renewal: Where to for South Africa's Left?
Part 2
Decolonial Critique of Eco-cidal Capitalism
5 Perspectives on Eco-cide
1 Marx and the International
2 Polanyi, Nature and the International: The Missing Dimension of Imperial Ecocide
3 Seven Theses on Radical Non-racialism, the Climate Crisis and Deep Just Transitions: From the National Question to the Eco-cide Question
4 The Coloniality of the Scientific Anthropocene
5 Crises, Socio-ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory Feminism
Part 3
Building Mass Resistance to Climate Injustic
6 For People and Worker Driven Climate Politics
1 The World Social Forum and the Battle for cop17
2 The Climate Is Ripe for Social Change
3 Trade Union Approach to Climate Justice: The Campaign Strategy of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa
4 Worsening Climate Crisis and the Challenge of Red-Green Alliances for Labour: Introducing the Climate Justice Charter Alternative in South Africa
5 The Geopolitics of Vaccine Apartheid
7 Raising the Alarm Louder against Climate Injustice
1 Light a Fire Under sa's Climate Policy
2 South Africa's Carbon Democracy Is Going Over the Cliff
3 Open Letter: Call For a UN Treaty to End Fossil Fuels
4 covid-19, the Climate Crisis and Lockdown - An Opportunity to End the War with Nature
5 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? A Final Climate Crisis Warning
6 Party Politicians Fiddle about with Climate Change While sa Burns
7 sa the Climate Pariah Needs to Change Its Ways
8 An Open Letter to Hosken Consolidated Investments and Minister Gwede Mantashe: A Beginner's Guide to Poppycock
9 US, Russia and Ukraine - The Death Trap beyond the New Cold War and World War 3
10 The anc Needs a Wake Up Call on the Urgency of the Climate Crisis
Part 4
For a Democratic Eco-Socialist South Africa and World
8 Democratic Eco-socialism through Democratic Systemic Reforms
1 The Climate Crisis and Systemic Alternatives
2 Climate Ecocide and Democratic Eco-socialism in South Africa
3 Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
4 After Capitalism: Democratic Eco-socialism?
5 Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism
6 End Ecocidal Capitalism or Exterminate Life on Planet Earth: A South African Contribution to Ecosocialist Strategy
9 Transformative Politics and the New Global Left Imaginary
1 Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalisation
10 Cooperative Development and Worker Cooperatives
1 Num Worker Co-ops Are Dead! Long Live Worker Co-ops?
2 Cooperatives and Nation Building in Post-apartheid South Africa: Contradictions and Challenges
3 A Cooperative Movement Response to the Crisis of Civilisation: Choosing to Sustain Life!
4 From National Liberation Struggle to Fingerprint Worker Cooperative
11 Solidarity Economy
1 With, against and Beyond the State: A Solidarity Economy through a Movement of Movements
12 Food Sovereignty
1 Break the Food Chain to Build Our Humanity
2 South Africa's Food System in Dire Straits
3 Food Sovereignty: The Viable Alternative to anc and eff Land Solutions
4 Civil Society: The State Has Failed and Cannot Be Trusted, Let Us Help Solve the Hunger Crisis
13 Universal Basic Income/Grant
1 The South African Precariat, covid-19 and #Bignow
14 The Climate Justice Charter Pluri-vision
1 No Short Cuts for a Deep Just Transition: Towards a Climate Justice Charter for South Africa
Annexure: Additional Activist Resources for Transformative Activism
Index
