Love Letter to the Many

Vishwas Satgar, Ph.D (2009), University of the Witwatersrand, is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witswatersrand, editor of the Democratic Marxism book series, and principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene. He is an award-winning veteran activist.

• Preface Writing Among, with and for the ManyAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAcronymsNote on Texts and TerminologyIntroductionPart 1Resisting Revolutionary Orthodoxy, Neoliberal Market Democracy and Emergent Neo-fascism1 Contributing to a Democratic Imaginary in the sacp1 Workplace Forums and Autonomous Self-management from Below2 The Visible Hand of Development Planning in India: Lessons for South Africa3 Cooperative Banks in South Africa: A Brief Survey4 Militarisation in Southern Africa: Trade Unions and the Prospects for Peace5 Worker Owned Cooperatives, Development and Neo-liberal Economic Adjustment6 Be Partisan for Peace7 Socialism and Sustainable Local Economic Development8 In Defence of the sacp and the Struggle for Socialism in South Africa: A Response to the Committee Document2 Rejecting the Fraud of the National Democratic Revolution1 A Critique of Government’s Macro-economic Strategy: Growth, Employment and Redistribution2 Neoliberalised South Africa: Labour and the Roots of Passive Revolution3 Global Capitalism and the Neo-liberalisation of Africa4 The Marikana Massacre and the South African State’s Low Intensity War against the People5 Beyond Marikana: The Post-apartheid South African State6 Epidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa3 Opposing Zumafication in the sacp and Outside1 Reflections: The Age of Barbarism2 We Need a Truly Transformative Democracy3 ‘No!’ Tells the anc Enough Is Enough4 Protests Mustn’t Harm Our Future5 Fees Protests: History Shows True Revolution Lies Not in Violence6 Its Up to Us to Make Sure Zuma Goes7 The eff’s Wrecking Ball Politics Is Fascist Rather than Left8 Zuma’s Cabinet Reshuffle Inaugurates South Africa’s Zimbabwe Moment9 South Africa Must Resist Another Captured President, This Time by the Markets10 Trump May Be Gone, but Neo-fascism Remains Alive and Kicking in Mainstream American Society11 South Africa Is Turning on Itself12 International Mandela Day – Respondent to Keynote Address of President Cyril Ramaphosa, 18 July, 202113 Without a Serious Challenge from the Left, the Political Field in South Africa Could See the Emergence of an Extreme Right4 The Challenge of Left Renewal in the Context of Worsening Capitalist Crisis1 The Left Project and Post-national Liberation Politics2 There Is a Democratic Left Response to the Global Crisis3 Occupying the Economy4 Reclaiming a Vision of Hope and a Life of Dignity5 Numsa Moment Leads Left Renewal6 Between Crisis and Renewal: Where to for South Africa’s Left?Part 2Decolonial Critique of Eco-cidal Capitalism5 Perspectives on Eco-cide1 Marx and the International2 Polanyi, Nature and the International: The Missing Dimension of Imperial Ecocide3 Seven Theses on Radical Non-racialism, the Climate Crisis and Deep Just Transitions: From the National Question to the Eco-cide Question4 The Coloniality of the Scientific Anthropocene5 Crises, Socio-ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory FeminismPart 3Building Mass Resistance to Climate Injustic6 For People and Worker Driven Climate Politics1 The World Social Forum and the Battle for cop172 The Climate Is Ripe for Social Change3 Trade Union Approach to Climate Justice: The Campaign Strategy of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa4 Worsening Climate Crisis and the Challenge of Red-Green Alliances for Labour: Introducing the Climate Justice Charter Alternative in South Africa5 The Geopolitics of Vaccine Apartheid7 Raising the Alarm Louder against Climate Injustice1 Light a Fire Under sa’s Climate Policy2 South Africa’s Carbon Democracy Is Going Over the Cliff3 Open Letter: Call For a UN Treaty to End Fossil Fuels4 covid-19, the Climate Crisis and Lockdown – An Opportunity to End the War with Nature5 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? A Final Climate Crisis Warning6 Party Politicians Fiddle about with Climate Change While sa Burns7 sa the Climate Pariah Needs to Change Its Ways8 An Open Letter to Hosken Consolidated Investments and Minister Gwede Mantashe: A Beginner’s Guide to Poppycock9 US, Russia and Ukraine – The Death Trap beyond the New Cold War and World War 310 The anc Needs a Wake Up Call on the Urgency of the Climate CrisisPart 4For a Democratic Eco-Socialist South Africa and World8 Democratic Eco-socialism through Democratic Systemic Reforms1 The Climate Crisis and Systemic Alternatives2 Climate Ecocide and Democratic Eco-socialism in South Africa3 Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future4 After Capitalism: Democratic Eco-socialism?5 Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism6 End Ecocidal Capitalism or Exterminate Life on Planet Earth: A South African Contribution to Ecosocialist Strategy9 Transformative Politics and the New Global Left Imaginary1 Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalisation10 Cooperative Development and Worker Cooperatives1 Num Worker Co-ops Are Dead! Long Live Worker Co-ops?2 Cooperatives and Nation Building in Post-apartheid South Africa: Contradictions and Challenges3 A Cooperative Movement Response to the Crisis of Civilisation: Choosing to Sustain Life!4 From National Liberation Struggle to Fingerprint Worker Cooperative11 Solidarity Economy1 With, against and Beyond the State: A Solidarity Economy through a Movement of Movements12 Food Sovereignty1 Break the Food Chain to Build Our Humanity2 South Africa’s Food System in Dire Straits3 Food Sovereignty: The Viable Alternative to anc and eff Land Solutions4 Civil Society: The State Has Failed and Cannot Be Trusted, Let Us Help Solve the Hunger Crisis13 Universal Basic Income/Grant1 The South African Precariat, covid-19 and #Bignow14 The Climate Justice Charter Pluri-vision1 No Short Cuts for a Deep Just Transition: Towards a Climate Justice Charter for South AfricaAnnexure: Additional Activist Resources for Transformative ActivismIndex