Unpacking service delivery protests
Jackie Dugard* discusses the rise of service delivery protest, rising social tension and the limits of South Africa’s transformative project.
Environment
COP17
This article argues that the outcome of COP 17 in Durban is a crime against humanity and discusses this in relation to technology, agriculture and the Global Climate Fund amongst others.
The Durban Package: escape hatches, empty shells, and a death notice to equity
IBON* argues that the COP17 outcomes are empty, undermine equity; and therefore communities and movements need to mobilise, to resist.
South African Waste Pickers: ‘MATOTI’
Portia Mosia* discusses the important work that waste pickers do and the struggle to have their work recognised and paid.
Khanya journal conference on radical political economy: environment, cop and social justice – December 29, 2011
Ferrial Adam* discusses the SA government’s role in climate change and argues for the need for a mass movement to condidtently safeguard our future environmental interests.
The relation between climate change and food security – December 29, 2011
Jacklyn Cock’s* informative article discusses the impact of climate change on food security, especially in Africa and Southern Africa.
Gender and Environment – December 29, 2011
Maria van Driel* argues that the struggle for equity within society and for environmental and social justice is interlinked.
The Environmental Justice Movement in Africa – December 29, 2011
Bobby Peek* provieds a discussion of the environmental justice movement in Africa, and grounds this in the continent’s colonial and postcolonial histories.
WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE?
john Treat* oulines global warming and its sources, and urges popular mobilisation to ensure that governments make binding agreements to significantly stop carbon emissions in the interests of climate justice, at the COP 17 meeting Durban later this year.
Ecology, Capitalism and Humans
This extract* from the World Socialist Party discusses ecology and argues that human beings need to take serioul the threat to the earth and humanity itself.
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