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Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest Tariffs, Seen From South Africa

1Jul

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Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest Tariffs, Seen From South Africa

Posted by: John Phoenix Image by Paul Teysen. U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base – especially consumers of cheap imports – will soon become evident when price inflation rises. But since Trump hit South Africa hard on July 8 with a 30% general tariff (though there are exceptions such as platinum, gold and other minerals which are zero-rated), will we find any creative economic planners in Pretoria, and in the big Johannesburg corporates, now preparing for potentially fast-falling export markets? Not only do they face the rise from the current 10% global tari...

South Africa’s Expropriation Act: Between Legal Reform and Historical Justice

3Mar

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Africa, South Africa

South Africa’s Expropriation Act: Between Legal Reform and Historical Justice

Posted by: John Phoenix Houses of Parliament (Cape Town, South Africa). Photograph Source: I, PhilippN – CC BY-SA 3.0 There is no discourse in South Africa more ancient, more unresolved, and more weaponised than that of land. The passage of the Expropriation Act in South Africa has set the air thick with tension, a moment that peels open the past to reveal its jagged edges. A history that never ended, only submerged beneath the language of legality and market transactions, is once again clawing at the present. The land is not just dirt and fences—it is memory, survival, identity and belonging, resistance, dispossession of labour, the looting of minerals, and the establishment of racial capital. It is the primordial question—older than the Republic of itself. On 23 Jan...

Nazi Lobbies US Congress to Pressure South Africa to Drop ICJ Genocide Case

17Aug

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Africa, Palestine Affairs, South Africa, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi Lobbies US Congress to Pressure South Africa to Drop ICJ Genocide Case

Posted by: John Phoenix Public hearings in South Africa's genocide case against Israel began at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands on January 11, 2024. (Photo: Selman Aksunger/Anadolu via Getty Images) One human rights expert said Israel's effort to bully South Africa is born from "obviously fearing it will lose" its World Court trial. Israeli officials are lobbying U.S. lawmakers to pressure South Africa into dropping its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, according to a report published Monday. Axiossaid it obtained a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable sent Monday to the country's embassy in Washington, D.C. and all its U.S. consulates threatening consequences if South Africa pr...

The ghosts of apartheid triggered South Africa’s case against the Nazi entity in The Hague

21Jul

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Africa, South Africa, ZIO-NAZI

The ghosts of apartheid triggered South Africa’s case against the Nazi entity in The Hague

Posted by: John Phoenix The reaction to the events inside the country turned out surprisingly united, despite all the controversies and problems South Africa Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola and South African Ambassador to the Netherlands Vusimuzi Madonsela attend the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ahead of the hearing of the genocide case against Israel brought by South Africa, in The Hague on January 11, 2024. © Remko de Waal / ANP / AFP South Africa’s decision to take Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on genocide allegations has received overwhelming praise in the country, with parallels being drawn to the country’s own historic fight against apartheid. The case is widely regarded as doing more for the country in terms of gl...

ANC veteran: ‘An anti-nazi patriotic war is not an interimperialist war’

15Jul

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Africa, South Africa

ANC veteran: ‘An anti-nazi patriotic war is not an interimperialist war’

Posted by: John Phoenix Seven decades of revisionist rot are revealed in the anti-Russia stance being taken by so many communist parties today. Alexander Moumbaris Subscribe to our channel It is shameful to note that while large sections of the oppressed masses around the world instinctively side with Russia in its bid to cleanse Ukraine of Nato-backed fascist forces, many representatives of parties that ought to be heading those masses have mischaracterised Russia’s special operation as an ‘imperialist invasion’. Their failure to understand either imperialism or the nature of the present conflict is having serious consequences for the unity and action of the world communist movement, and these consequences can only get worse as the imperialist drive to war against ...

South Africa – The unfinished liberation struggle

13Jul

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Africa, South Africa

South Africa – The unfinished liberation struggle

Posted by: John Phoenix “We do not agree to this marriage of convenience to consolidate white monopoly power over the economy and the means of production. This is a grand coalition between the ANC and white monopoly capital” – Julius Malema – Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters -Speech to the South African parliament June 2024. The general election which took place in South Africa on 29 May 2024 marked another stage in a 30-year process of degeneration of the African National Congress. From a position of being nearly unassailable in the years following the formal ending of the old apartheid state in 1994, the ANC’s electoral support has dwindled to the point where it is now in what the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julisu Malema, has called a...

Africa’s oldest liberation movement must choose left or right

31May

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Africa, South Africa

Africa’s oldest liberation movement must choose left or right

Posted by: John Phoenix Negotiations between ANC and its rivals are taking place after no party achieved a majority in the country’s recent national elections A woman casts her ballot at a polling station, during general elections in Eshowe, South Africa, on May 29, 2024. © AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti The African National Congress (ANC), the political movement once led by Nelson Mandela, finds itself in a prickly position after South Africa’s May elections, as it seeks to negotiate a coalition with other parties to form a majority government. The ANC, Africa’s oldest liberation movement, formed in 1912, had previously won all of the country’s six elections with a clear majority, allowing it to dominate parliament and appoint its members to head up critical mi...

Nicaragua joins South Africa at the ICJ in support of Palestine

20Feb

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Africa, Nicaragua, South Africa

Nicaragua joins South Africa at the ICJ in support of Palestine

The way that different countries have responded to the ongoing genocide in Gaza says everything about which interests their governments really represent. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel The anti-imperialist solidarity between the revolutionaries and national-liberation movements of Nicaragua and Palestine is not new, but it is testament to the principled leadership of the Sandinistas that Nicaragua is willing to put itself forward against zionism on the world stage, knowing full well that this will bring the opprobrium of international finance capital down on its head. While Yemen has been the first state actor to deliver full practical solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, and South Africa was the first to have recourse to international l...

‘Israel’ Goes to Court for the Crime of Genocide

9Jan

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Africa, Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

‘Israel’ Goes to Court for the Crime of Genocide

The Biden Administration will lie, cheat and go to war to protect its “best friend” PHILIP GIRALDI A friend of mine who follows international developments closely recently observed that the United States and Israel have “own goaled” themselves to become widely perceived as together the two most evil governments on earth. It is a judgement that is hard to disagree with regarding the Jewish state if one examines the abundant evidence that Israel is systematically committing war crimes against the largely unarmed Palestinian civilian population in an effort to bring about ethnic cleansing or even genocide in Gaza and on the West Bank. The process would include removing the Palestinians physically and/or killing them if they resist, which is what is currently taking place. Somethin...

BRICS Member South Africa Takes Zionism to Court

9Jan

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Africa, Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

BRICS Member South Africa Takes Zionism to Court

PEPE ESCOBAR Pretoria’s genocide case against Israel is crucial, not just to stop Tel Aviv’s carnage in Gaza, but to plant the first flag of mutipolarism in the globe’s courtrooms: this is the first case of many that will seek to halt western impunity and restore international law as envisioned in the UN Charter. Nothing less than the full concept of international law will be on trial this week in The Hague. The whole world is watching. It took an African nation, not an Arab or Muslim nation, but significantly a BRICS member, to try to break the iron chains deployed by Zionism via fear, financial might, and non-stop threats, enslaving not only Palestine but substantial swathes of the planet. By a twist of historical poetic justice, South Africa, a nation that knows one or...