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  • In commune: Myesha Jenkins and Makhosazana Xaba

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    The Forge hosted the first collaboration In Commune session at the Forge Theatre in January 2020. In Commune is an intimate live platform and video series, created collaboratively by The Forge and New Frame. It brings peers with long histories of struggle, activism, political and cultural experience in conversation with each other. As they share […]

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  • Red books day: The Communist Manifesto translated into Sesotho and read by Napo Masheane

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    Napo Masheane translates passages from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels into Sestho in celebration of International Red Books Day, 2020. Read more about the event at: https://www.thetricontinental.org/wp-… The Commune is a radical, community-centred bookshop in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. We are a not-for-profit organisation focused on the articulation and discussion of progressive, Pan-African […]

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  • Event: Release of three new publications from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

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    We hosted an event on the 8th of October to launch three new publications by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research: The Neoliberal Attack on Rural India by P. Sainath, The Fate of Xolobeni Would be the Fate of Us All by Kevin Bloom, and The Rate of Exploitation (the Case of the iPhone). Dossier 21: […]

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We must instil in each and every one of us a sense of how certain victory is, a spirit of trust in victory. This is a cultural act, comrades. It enables us to withstand hardship, to never give up, to not lose hope after a defeat, because every struggle has its defeats.

– Amílcar Cabral

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