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This article seeks to tease out some of the pitfalls of organizing worker co-operatives trying to compete in the market and often with the ‘assistance’ of the state. The benefits and limitations of co-operatives have long been the topic of discussion amongst anarchists and other libertarian socialists.
In this article, using an anarchist analysis, it will be argued that this lopsided trade, expansive investment and projection of state power by the South African ruling class are signs of the imperialist role they play in southern Africa.
"A suppressed historical episode has emerged into the light of day in such a way as to deeply embarrass Israel and the United States in their campaign against Iran’s peaceful nuclear enrichment program at Natanz near Isfahan."
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A suppressed historical episode has emerged into the light of day in such a way as to deeply embarrass Israel and the United States in their campaign against Iran’s peaceful nuclear enrichment program at Natanz near Isfahan.
Israeli historian Professor Ilan Pappe and South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former government minister Ronnie Kasrils spoke on Wednesday 10 March 2010 in the Houses of Parliament on the subject of opposing apartheid. Drawing comparisons between the oppressive nature of the former South African apartheid regime and the current Israeli government they highlighted the way forward for Palestine.
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Zionism is a very successful project of deception." Deception can be challenged even if the occupation cannot.
Simply by looking at the title of one of his books, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, you can see why so many close-minded members of Israeli society made it their mission to make life so intolerable for the brave and outspoken academic Professor Ilan Pappe. So successful were they that he was forced to leave Israel, the land of his birth. Following repeated death threats and calls for him to be sacked he came to live in Britain. -
The deception that Israel uses to cover up its crimes must be addressed because it can have very serious ramifications. For example, the UN fact-finding mission that produced the Goldstone Report was not the first Commission to investigate Israel for war crimes. The McBride Commission took place after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and came to the conclusion that Israel had committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity. However, Prof. Pappe declared, "the McBride Report was buried".
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Ronnie Kasrils began on an optimistic note by saying that Jews and Israelis, such as Ilan Pappe, are following in the footsteps of the small group of white South Africans who stood up for fairness and justice during the darkest days of the South African apartheid era. They may have been vilified at the time but later, when justice won out, they were praised; and similarly, he told Prof. Pappe, when justice wins out in the case of Palestine, your compatriots will take their hats off to you for speaking out against the Israeli regime.While South Africa's apartheid may represent the closest historical precedent to Israel–Palestine, writes Saree Makdisi, the Israeli state's treatment of Palestinian people in many respects eclipses the suffering imposed by the South African apartheid government on 'non-white' people.
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South African apartheid continually registered itself in the verbal and visual field through endless plaques, signs, words, laws, names, classifications – an endless series of binaries constructed around the ultimate 'blankes/nie blankes.' One of the most compelling facts about South African apartheid is that it was not just an invisible or inscrutable or anonymous logic, it dared to have a proper name. After all, it insisted on calling attention to itself in its system of explicit signs, labels, markers – on every bus, at the entrance to every bathroom.
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in every corner of occupied East Jerusalem where Israeli bulldozers have deliberately and methodically demolished Palestinian family homes in a vain attempt to maintain the ratio of Jews to non-Jews in the city’s population (72 to 28, if you are interested in the sordid details) that was determined by city planners in the 1970s – and has been sustained ever since by denying Palestinian residents of the city permits to build, bulldozing their homes when they build anyway, and stripping them of their residency status and expelling them from the city whenever possible. 2,162 Palestinian Jerusalemites have suffered this fate since 2003 alone, expelled to the West Bank suburbs and denied the right to return to the city of their birth, while Jewish arrivals from Moldova, London, Melbourne and Brooklyn who have never set eyes on Jerusalem take their place.
"Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town and prominent leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa recently wrote: “I’ve been very deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about.”"
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Where South African apartheid limited black Africans’ movement through humiliating “pass laws” which regulated where blacks were allowed to live, work and travel, Israeli apartheid constrains Palestinian freedoms through an extensive network of armed checkpoints and roadblocks which criss-cross Palestinian towns and villages.
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Where South African apartheid terrorised the black population through States of Emergency which allowed the state to detain anyone without a hearing for up to six months (and while in prison they would be tortured and often killed), Israeli apartheid is currently holding around 7,500 Palestinians in prisons, often without trial, often for years at a time and often employing torture to cow and brutalise.
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