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We are the poors : community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa /

"When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of the oppressed majority, however. Material inequality has deepened and new forms of soli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Desai, Ashwin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A note on currency
  • Chatsworth
  • Harinarian "Moses" Judhoo in the promised land
  • How are these people even able to exist?
  • A social timebomb starts ticking
  • The struggle and its fruits : from the militant eighties to the end of apartheid
  • "We are the poors"
  • Upgrading the houses and the return of relocation
  • Is it legal to be poor? : evictions and resistance
  • Faces in the crowd
  • Working life : from rags to tatters
  • Thulisile Manqele's water
  • Revolt in Isipingo
  • Mpumalanga's liberated zone (co-authored with Heinrich Bohmke)
  • Fighting neoliberalism in Soweto and Tafelsig
  • Labor and community : the Volkswagen and Engen strikes
  • Chatsworth re-ignites
  • global and local : the world conference against racism and the Durban social forum
  • Building a new movement?
  • Durban Social Forum declaration.