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  • Queers Against Apartheid: From South Africa to Israel

    Tim McCaskell | June 22nd 2010 | 3 | Queer

    Like South Africa twenty-five years ago, Israel today portrays itself as a progressive liberal democracy, an endangered island of modernity in a backward and hostile region. The existence of a gay rights movement in Israel is deployed as another example of this modernity.

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  • Fool me twice? Labour Politics in South Africa

    Carolyn Bassett and Marlea Clarke | September 2nd 2004 | Africa, Labour

    Campaigning on a platform of “A People’s Contract to Create Work and Fight Poverty,” the ruling African National Congress (ANC) received nearly 70 per cent of the popular vote in South Africa’s third democratic election in March, 2004.

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  • Patterns of Upheaval

    Carlyn Zwarenstein | November 1st 2003 | Globalization

    Bolivia’s president just resigned following several days of popular and labour uprising and government repression. Once again in Latin America, the issue is one of access to resources (where isn’t it?) — the government wanted to export natural gas resources — Bolivia has Latin America’s largest natural gas reserves - to the United States and Mexico.

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