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
Category Archives: Theoretical questions
Raymond Suttner, Nelson Mandela as a model of manhood
Whereas earlier studies of gender concentrated on women, recent decades have seen a flourishing of literature on masculinities, 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.
Christopher Saunders, Jabulani Sithole and Raymond Suttner on Chief Albert Luthuli, 2011
Christopher Saunders, Jabulani Sithole and Raymond Suttner on Chief Albert Luthuli
A panel at the Centre for conflict resolution, University of Cape Town, 2011, to mark the 50th anniversary of Chief Luthuli receiving the prize. The podcasts include audience discussion
John Hoffman, Secular reconstruction of religion/Transcending atheism
[Note: In clicking on the link the file will have to be downloaded from the download folder]
I have known John Hoffman since we were first year students Continue reading
Raymond Suttner, entry on Joe Slovo, Dictionary of African Biography, 2012
Raymond Suttner, Popular Justice in South Africa today, June 1986 (Unpublished)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
Albert Einstein, Why Socialism
Raymond Suttner:Need for real debate on South Africa’s future, (2008)
Why is this election different from all previous ones:early evaluation of Zuma era
Judith Butler acceptance speech receiving Honorary D Litt from McGill University 31 May 2013
Cornel West on Obama, continued institutionalised racism and class inequality
The Challenges of constitutionalism. Pierre de Vos on Breytenbach case
Crisis of constitutionalism and legality
One of the features distinguishing post-Polokwane political developments has been the attack on constitutionalism and legality. Continue reading
Nelson Mandela, statement from the Dock, Rivonia Trial 1964
Angela Davis on Obama re-election
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/21/angela_davis_now_that_obama_has
Angela Davis argues that despite completely supporting the re-election of Barack Obama, broader democratic demands cannot be subordinated to presidential agendas
Rethinking National Democratic Revolution (NDR):the national question.
This paper is work in progress
Re-thinking and re-remembering prison
This is an article rethinking my prison experiences and also trying to theorise the character of political imprisonment, using notions like agency and liminality. It is published in Psychology in society, 2010. Click to download: PINSsuttner
debating ‘NDR’ 2010
Article on National Democratic Revolution published in the Daily Dispatch in 2010, click on link following: debating ‘NDR’ 2010
Raymond Suttner 