Category Archives: Popular power
Open letter from Slavoj Zizek, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler and other academics regarding violent attacks on Abahlali
Podcast of PowerFM radio interview with Raymond Suttner, Kay Sexwale and host Chris Vick, on disagreement with current leadership directions of the ANC
Raymond Suttner, Response to comments on my article in the Mail and Guardian of 27 September 2013
I recently published an article analysing the degeneration of the ANC led tripartite alliance. Continue reading
Ariel Dorfman, Martin Luther King jr and the two 9/11s
Raymond Suttner: Decisions/concessions made by the Mandela-led ANC during the transition towards post-apartheid South Africa
The transcript and interview with Professor Sampie Terreblanche (link at the end of this article) provides insights Continue reading
Raymond Suttner: Arundhati Roy on the buying off of Mandela and ANC by big capital: The engaged intellectual cannot empower people where there is no humility
According to Arundhati Roy, in part of a talk published on You Tube, 12 June 2013 when the struggle in South Africa ‘started ‘it was the Black consciousness (BC) people who were most powerful Continue reading
Michael Neocosmos, ‘From Peoples’ Politics to State Politics: Aspects of National Liberation in South Africa’
An important article on the displacement of popular power and the UDF from the mid 1980s onwards. It is a chapter in Adebayo O. Olukoshi (ed), The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa. Nordic Africa Institute. 1998.
The significance of the Agang launch
It is hard not to be impressed watching on television and now reading the speech of Dr Mamphela Ramphele at Agang’s launch.
How much weight to we place on a speech? Continue reading
Agang is not COPE
Inevitably commentators are comparing Agang with COPE (Justice Malala, today, Saturday on ENCA). Continue reading
Raymond Suttner, Popular Justice in South Africa today, June 1986 (Unpublished)
Note: there are two separate links to be clicked on, one for the text and the other for the endnotes
This was a seminar paper, prepared for the University of the Witwatersrand, in June 1986, just before I was rearrested for a further 27 months. Continue reading
Creating a culture of democracy and debate: response to Ndinda and Neocosmos
Michael Neocosmos, The heritage of struggle: a dialogue with Raymond Suttner’s ancestral fidelity
The Legacy of the United Democratic Front
This is a chapter from book published by CODESRIA in 2005. Will supply bibliographical details later
Raymond Suttner 