2 April 2008

Documents from other movements & struggles: Amazwi aghamuka kweminye imibuthi

Movement Charters and Manifestos

The Twelve Articles from the Peasants’ War in Germany, 1525
A Declaration From the Poor Oppressed People of England, by Gerrard Winstanley, England, 1649
The True Levellers Standard Advanced: Or, The State of Community Opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men, England 1649
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789
The Haitian Constitution, 1801
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!, Georg Büchner, 1834
Uhlu Lokuphakathi by Karl Marx & Friederich Engels, 1848 (translated by Brian Ramadiro, 2005)
Manifesto of the Paris Commune, Paris, 1871
Manifesto of the Industrial Workers of Africa Johannesburg, 1917
Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations by Alexandra Kollontai, Russia, 1917
Izvestiia of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Sailors, Soldiers and Workers of the town of Kronstadt, 1921
African’s Claims in South African, African National Congress, 1943
The Freedom Charter Congress of the People, Kliptown, 1955
The Ten Point Program, The Black Panthers, 1966
A Black Feminist Statement USA, 1977
Zapatista Manifesto Lacondon Jungle, Mexico, 31 December 1993
Zapatista Women’s Revolutionary Law Lacondon Jungle, Mexico, 1 January 1994
The Statement of Assembly of the Poor Pak Mun Dam site, Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand, 1999
The Fourth World War, Subcommandante Marcos, 2001
MST Manifesto Brasilia, Brazil 2000
Landless Peoples’ Movement Memorandum to Thabo Mbeki Announcing the ‘No Land, No House!’ Campaign Johannesburg, 2003
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Incite! Women of Color, 2004
Communique from the Mouvement de l’Immigration et des Banlieues Paris, 2005
Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), 2005
The Right to the City by Tony Roshan Samara, USA, 2007
Bhubaneshwar SEZ Convention: Draft Declaration on SEZs and Displacement Bhubaneswar, 2007

Speeches, Interviews, Letters & Statements

Letter from Moses Kotane in Cradock to the Johannesburg District Party Committee, 1934
Trotsky Protests Too Much, by Emma Goldman, 1938
Letter to Maurice Thorez, Aimé Césaire, 1956
Independence Day Speech by Patrice Lumumba, 1960
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, 1963
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, 1970
Interview with Steve Biko, 1972
Right Comrade, Its the Hour of the Garden by Pablo Neruda, Chile, 1973
Practising Proletarian Reason by Raya Dunayeskaya, 1975
Interview on Language and Other Questions, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, undated
I Write What I Like, by Steve Biko, 1978
Letter to the Minister of Justice, Alan Boseak, 1979
Towards a People’s Democracy: The UDF View, 1987
On the Poor Organizing the Poor by Willie Baptist, 1988
Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds A Storm and a Prophecy by Insurgent Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, 1994
Black Autonomy: Civil Rights, the Panthers and Today interview with Komboa Ervin and Jonina Abron, 2000
Address to the Congress of the Union Comandanta Esther, 2001
Letter to a British socialist on anti-capitalist movements, by Goblin, 2001
Interview with Evo Morales, by Yvonne Zimmermann, 2002
When Jesus Ate with the Poorest Interview with Jon Sobrino, 2003
Landless People’s Movement Rejects National Land Committee’s Effort to Crush Our Struggle by LPM, 2003
I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, 2003
Please Stop the International Amina Lawal Protest Letter Campaigns by BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, 2003
A Global Perspective on Democracy & Activism in Southern Africa by William Robinson, 2003
Tide? Or Ivory Snow? “Public Power in the Age of Empire”, by Arundhati Roy, 2004
Landless People’s Movement Activists to Testify Against Cops in Torture Case by Landless People’s Movement, Johannesburg, 2005
Some Introductory Remarks About a New City for a New Society by Marcello Lopez de Souza, Porte Allegro, 2005
I Believe Only In The Power Of The People by Evo Morales, Chiapas, 2005
From best practice to Pariah: the case of Durban, South Africa by Pat Horn, Durban, 2005
Interview with Alain Badiou, 2006
Metropolis Transcribed & translated notes from a seminar by Giorgio Agamaben, 2006
Background to the assassination of Mazwi Douglas Zulu (Komi) A statement from various organisation in Umlazi, 2006
On the Social Movement’s Indaba from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, 2006
Statement of Occupation – by the Camberwell Squatted Social Centre, London, 2007
Neo-liberalism and the New Socialism, speech by Alvaro Garcia Linera, 2007
An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide by Peter Hallward, 2007
“We Need a Popular Discipline”: Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative Interview with Alain Badiou, 2007
Open Letter to Participants in the Social Movements’ Indaba by The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, 2007
Response to Chomsky et al. from Arundhati Roy, Sumit Sarkar, Sarog Giri and others, 2007 (Click here to see an Al Jazeera report on the struggle in Nandigram, West Bengal)
Catastrophic equilibrium and point of bifurcation, speech by Álvaro García Linera, 2007
My Name is Radharani Ari and This is How My Consciousness Was Raised, 2008 (Statement from Golkupur, Nandigram)
Fight Against the Terror in Nandigram, Build Your Own Independent & United Struggle by the Sramik Sangram Committee, 2008
Open Letter Regarding the European Union’s “Returns Directive”, by Evo Morales, 2008
Letter to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Nossal Institute of Global Health by Empower, Thailand, 2008
Statement by Evo Morales at The Continental Gathering of Solidarity with Bolivia in Guatemala City, 2008
From the Earth to the Sky, by Natthawut Saikua, the Red Shirts, Thailand, 2008
Venezuela From Below: An Interview with George Ciccariello-Maher by Jeffery Webber, 2008
Fighting Foreclosure in South Africa – An Open Letter to US Activists, by the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, 2009
Manifesto in Defence of the MST, 2009
It’s Not Enough to be Angry, Willie Baptist interviewed by John Wessel-McCoy, 2009
Why have most Thai NGOs chosen to side with the conservative royalists, against democracy and against the poor?, by Giles Ji Ungpakorn, 2010
The Left and Racial Domination in France, Sadri Khiari interviewed by Danièle Obono, 2010
Peter Hallward responds to the BBC on NGOs in Haiti, Peter Hallward, 2011
Care Work and the Power of Women: An Interview with Selma James, by Julie McIntrye, 2012

Essays on Other Struggles

The Greater Common Good by Arundhati Roy, 1999
Shall We Leave it to the Experts? by Arundhati Roy, 2002
Dismantling Assumptions: Interrogating “Lesbian” Struggles for Identity and Survival in India and South Africa, Amanda Lock Swarr and Richar Nagar, 2003
That have not been asked: ten dispatches about endurance in face of walls by John Berger, 2005
Survival and Existence in El Alto by Raul Zibechi, 2005
Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution, by George Ciccariello-Maher, 2007
NGOs and the Struggle in Haiti, by Peter Hallward, 2009
“Setting the agenda for our leaders from under a tree”: The People’s Parliament in Nairobi, by Wangui Kimari & Jacob Rasmussen, 2010
Constructing Mutuality: The Zapatistas’ Transformation of Transnational Activist Power Dynamics, by Abigail Andrews, 2010
Fellow Prisoners by John Berger, 2011

Documentation of other Struggles

Curse of the Black Gold: 50 years of oil in the Niger Delta, Ed Kashi & Michael Watts, 2008