[AUT] South Africa discussion at NYC's Left Forum tomorrow, 5pm

[Patrick Bond <pbond@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Don't miss the Left Forum at Cooper Union if you're in NYC this 
weekend, especially our excellent comrades talking SA politics at 5pm on 
Saturday.)

LEFT FORUM

Revisiting South Africa’s Transition: Contradiction and Possibilities 
(Amandla Publishers)
Amanda Alexander, Columbia University and Centre for Civil Society 
(http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs), University of KwaZulu-Natal (Chair)
Mazibuko Jara, South African Communist Party
Brian Ashley, Co-founder, Jubilee South, Amandla Publishers
Dennis Brutus, Centre for Civil Society (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs), 
University of KwaZulu-Natal

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Amanda Alexander is a Ph.D. student in the history department at 
Columbia University and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Civil 
Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

Brian Ashley was the Director of the Alternative Information and 
Development Centre, a prominent organisation in facilitating the 
building of struggles against neoliberal globalisation in South Africa. 
He was founder member of the third world anti-debt movement Jubilee 
South and has been active in struggles against the World Trade 
Organisation. He is also a prominent member of the Palestinian 
Solidarity Campaign in South Africa.

Dennis Brutus is professor emeritus of the Department of Africana 
Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a political prisoner in 
South Africa and remains active on issues of racism, anti-war, and 
corporate globalization. He is a member of Jubilee South Africa and the 
African Social Forum. Recent publications include Leafdrift (Whirlwind 
Press) and Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader (Haymarket Press). 
He is currently a visiting scholar at the Centre for Civil Society, 
University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Mazibuko Jara is a member of the Cape Town District Executive Committee 
of the South African Communist Party (SACP). He is an activist and 
researcher in human rights, HIV/AIDS, lesbian and gay equality, 
community development, promotion of co-operatives, alternative economic 
transformation, and land and agrarian reform. He was recently expelled 
from the Party's Young Communist League after serving as its deputy 
national secretary. Mazibuko currently works as the Research Director of 
the Ikhwezi Institute, a newly established a progressive, black-led 
think tank and as Co-Managing Editor for Amandla Publishers.



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