A political economist and activist who directs the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, Patrick Bond was a featured guest speaker at the Green Left Weekly Social Change — Climate Change conference held in Sydney in April.
Author of a range of books, including Climate Change, Carbon Trading and [...]

Simba Kenyatta, a member of the Coalition for a County Wide Community Dialogue on Race, Poverty, Equality, and Justice and a political and social activist with decades of work in Santa Cruz, was recently interviewed [MP3; 43 min.] on Free Radio Santa Cruz. Simba covers the origins of the Coalition and who’s involved, the [...]

Fatima Hassan, is a prominent South African human rights lawyer who was part of a South African Human Rights Delegation that in early July visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The delegation undertook the mission in order to: “support those, Palestinian and Israeli, working daily, by non-violent means, to bring an [...]

Claude Marks is the director of The Freedom Archives, a San Francisco-based organization. Through the website and email list-serves, it provides a valuable resource documenting both revolutionary struggle and police state repression. Freedom Archives also creates high quality audio and video documentaries, including the recent video about the San Francisco Eight, titled Legacy of Torture.
Legacy [...]

Favianna Rodriguez and Josh MacPhee don’t want you to curl up on your sofa and quietly flip through their new compendium of political graphics, Reproduce [...]