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📌 Issue #103 of Amandla! magazine is 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗪!
This issue analyses how anger at poverty, unemployment, and collapsing public services is being turned against other poor people.
🔗Download your free copy here 👇🏾
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#OutNow
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As #COP31 kicks off in Antalya, we must acknowledge that the official negotiation process still favours corporate polluters, while frontline communities bear the brunt. According to Brian Ashley, it's time to prioritise grassroots power, public climate jobs, and community survival. Click the link below to read more. ⤵️
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#COP31Türkiye🇹🇷
#ClimateJustice
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Amandla! Weekly: Local government and the cost-recovery trap | From xenophobia to authoritarian politics | Another five years of broken promises 🇿🇦
#AmandlaMagazine
#LocalGovernmentElections2026
#SocialJustice
#EndXenophobia
#EndHate
#Democracy
#Accountability
#Change
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 👉🏾 bit.ly/4j1PTJK
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The @CryofXcluded is uniting workers, social movements, and trade unions across South Africa to fight austerity, poverty, and xenophobia. According to Madoda Cuphe, it is time to transform anger into collective power to demand jobs, public services, and housing for all. Click the link below to read more. ⤵️
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#CryOfTheXcluded✊🏾🇿🇦
#SouthAfrica
#LGE2026
#Elections2026
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South Africa’s municipal "cost-recovery" fiscal model is driving the collapse of local government and worsening household poverty and food insecurity. According to Tracy Ledger, with 75% of municipalities in financial distress, policy must prioritise universal access to basic services. Read more here. ⤵️
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#LocalGovernmentElections2026
#SocialJustice
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Amandla! Weekly: Mass mobilisations create Lula’s electoral comeback victory | Enter the mob, stage right | AIDC is hiring! 🇿🇦
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#BrazilElection
#Mobilisation
#Grassroots
#SocialJustice
#Xenophobia
#SouthAfrica
#Politics
#JobAlert
#JobSeekersSA
#HireAGraduate
📸: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters
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MES-PSOL calls for sustained street mobilisation to enforce popular commitments, including investing in the SUS and education, reducing the working week, and taxing billionaires, while building independent grassroots power in Brazil following Lula’s historic electoral victory. Click the link below to read more. ⤵️
#BrazilElection
#Mobilisation
#Grassroots
#SocialJustice
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#FEATURE: In this week's feature article, Richard Pithouse highlights how South Africa's socio-political crisis has normalised xenophobia. What was once fringe rhetoric is now mainstream, fuelled by state-backed policies and nationalist movements. A must-read on the erosion of democratic norms. ⤵️
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#Xenophobia
#SouthAfrica
#Politics
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Amandla! Weekly: We need an industrial development strategy that puts people first | A brief snapshot of global migration | Young people take to the streets to “sweep away the old world.”
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#IDS
#GAIN
#StudentProtests
#SocialJustice
#Migration
#Politics
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 👉🏾 bit.ly/4zU1Nv4
#FEATURE: In this insightful article, Associate Professor Faisal Garba examines the politicisation of migration, contrasting right-wing anxieties and anti-immigrant sentiment with demographic and economic realities. He analyses patterns in the Global North and Africa, showing how migrants support essential social and economic functions, debunking myths and offering insights into the drivers of human mobility. Click the link below to read more. ⤵️
#AmandlaMagazine
#Migration
#Politics
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French students are protesting austerity, cuts to public services, and state repression. According to Charlotte Kreder, they are calling for working-class justice amid rising poverty and climate challenges. Read more here. ⤵️
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#StudentProtests
#SocialJustice
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South Africa’s new Industrial Development Strategy prioritises capital-intensive sectors but falls short on job creation. To address mass unemployment and poverty, Jaco Oelofsen argues that the country needs a people-first industrial policy centred on labour-intensive industries. Click the link below to read more. ⤵️
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#IDS
#GAIN
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Amandla! Weekly: Who pays when fathers don’t? | Uprising of school students in France | Football belongs to us, not to FIFA and the global elite
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#OutNow
#GenderEquality
#ChildSupport
#EconomicJustice
#France
#FIFA
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Amandla! spoke to Basile Copin, a student activist and co-organiser of the "Jeunes Insoumis", about how the French student uprising rapidly spread on social media and sparked nationwide protests involving universities, teachers, trade unions, and workers. It has evolved into a broader fight against neoliberal and far-right policies, police repression, and the dismantling of public infrastructure. Read more here. ⤵️
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#France
📸: Firas Abdullah/Anadolu via Getty Images
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In "Who pays when fathers don’t? Maintenance, care and the state", Soraya Mentoor highlights that non-payment of maintenance is a crucial issue for gender equality and children’s rights. She argues that when fathers don’t pay, the burden disproportionately falls on mothers, exposing systemic failures. Click the link below to read more. ⤵️
#GenderEquality
#ChildSupport
#EconomicJustice
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Amandla! Weekly: High school mobilisation in working-class areas | The fear of being different is always there | What do we mean by nationalism today?
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 👉🏾 bit.ly/4hPb2F4
#AmandlaMagazine
#OutNow
#StudentActivism
#FrenchPolitics
#RefugeeStories
#MigrantWomen
#SouthAfrica
#Xenophobia
#Neoliberalism
📸: Miguel Medina/AFP
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#FEATURE: In this week's feature, Zamzam Hirsi recounts her arrival in South Africa as a Somali refugee. She shares her experiences founding the Filanwaa Refugee Women’s Association and the challenges migrant women and their children face. Click the link below to read more. ⤵️
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#RefugeeStories
#MigrantWomen
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📨 Our '𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝘆' section is back! In this piece, Andile Zulu examines how xenophobic nationalism has emerged in post-apartheid South Africa in response to the failures of neoliberal capitalism, the influence of social media propaganda, and the absence of a strong Left movement. Click the link below to read more. ⤵️
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#SouthAfrica
#Xenophobia
#Neoliberalism
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Amandla! Weekly: Extortion and Systemic Failure | The reason for poverty isn’t another poor person | Fear of consequences costing humanity
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#OutNow
#ProtectionFee
#ExtortionGang
#NoToXenophobia
#Inclusion
#HumanRights
#FaithInAction
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 👉🏾 bit.ly/3VllU6k
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In the face of rising xenophobia, civil society and faith communities are crucial. Humanitarian aid alone isn't enough. How do we prevent the next wave of violence? Rev Dr Rachel Mash raises important questions in the article below. ⤵️
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#Xenophobia
#HumanRights
#FaithInAction
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