Michael Laxer
"We South Africans know what apartheid looks like"
Excerpt from the speech of Cyril Ramaphosa , President of South Africa, at the UN General Assembly, 24 September 2024: Genocide was...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 193 min
E-hailing drivers go on strike in Cape Town
Vulnerable to arbitrary decisions by the e-hailing apps and criminals posing as passengers, the drivers called for government protection....
Michael Laxer
Aug 303 min
South African farmworkers march to demand a ban on harmful pesticides
The protestors want Germany to stop exporting 67 hazardous pesticides that are banned in Europe, to South Africa Women on Farms are...
Michael Laxer
Aug 273 min
South African Communists celebrate Venezuelan Supreme Court confirmation of Maduro victory
Maduro speaks during the 2024 election campaign - Confidencial, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia...
Michael Laxer
Aug 182 min
PSC calls for Israeli academics at microbial conference in Cape Town to be disinvited
The PSC says that allowing Israeli academics, that have no record of opposing the genocide in Palestine, to be speakers at the symposium...
Michael Laxer
Aug 171 min
Remembering Ruth First, assassinated August 17, 1982
Ruth First was born in 1925 to parents Julius First and Matilda Levetan who emigrated to South Africa from Latvia in 1906 and became...
Michael Laxer
Jun 61 min
Spain joins South Africa's Israel genocide case at the ICJ
Albares making the announcement Saying that they are doing it out of commitment to the UN and international law, Spanish Foreign Minister...
Michael Laxer
Jun 64 min
South African Communists call for prioritizing the interests of workers, no alliance with DA or MKP
The South African Communist Party (SACP) Political Bureau held a special meeting on Wednesday, June 5 2024, in Johannesburg to analyze...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16 min
Lula's Gaza Rhetoric is not enough
Although Lula da Silva called Israel’s war against Palestinians a genocide, the Brazilian president is yet to follow that up with...
Michael Laxer
May 243 min
ICJ Orders Israel to 'Immediately Halt Its Military Offensive' in Rafah
Defense lawyers for Israel did not convince the International Court of Justice that the ongoing evacuation operation in the southern Gaza...
Michael Laxer
May 231 min
Joe Slovo b. May 23, 1926
Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo at the Communist Party's first public meeting in South Africa in 1990, after being banned...
Michael Laxer
May 132 min
Egypt joins South Africa in ICJ genocide case
Various Sources Egypt has announced that it will join South Africa in supporting its genocide case against Israel at the International...
Michael Laxer
May 115 min
South Africa Urges ICJ Action as Israeli War Cabinet Expands Rafah Assault
"Despite repeated orders by the court, Israel has not changed its conduct," South Africa's urgent request states. "It has doubled down on...
Michael Laxer
May 35 min
Student Demands for Divestment Are Not New
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and...
Michael Laxer
Apr 2714 min
Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough - South African Communist Party
South African Communist Party Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough Wednesday, 27 April 1994 marked...
Michael Laxer
Apr 215 min
From Namibia to Gaza With Love
The Israeli brutality in Gaza, but also the Palestinian sumud, resilience and resistance, are inspiring the Global South to reclaim its...
Michael Laxer
Apr 192 min
U.S. Officials Brazenly Deny Genocide
U. S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosts Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon on March 26, 2024 By Global News...
Michael Laxer
Mar 283 min
ICJ Issues New Order in Genocide Case as Another Gaza Child Starves to Death
The World Court cited "exceptionally grave" developments, especially the "spread of famine and starvation," in once again ordering Israel...
Michael Laxer
Mar 191 min
Transport Workers Unions in Africa Call for a Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
Irvin Jim, the General Secretary of NUMSA, reads out the motion passed by the Conference By Global News Service Unions in Africa...
Michael Laxer
Mar 132 min
South African Foreign Minister warns that citizens fighting with Israel in Gaza will face arrest
Pandor speaking after the ICJ interim ruling in January In another step to try to stop the slaughter, South Africa’s Foreign Minister...
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