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Just to let friends/colleagues/comrades know of exciting developments
in South Africa...
Last Thursday-Saturday, the Jubilee 2000 launch occurred in Cape
Town, and Njoki has already provided you evidence of excellent news
coverage. One of the country's lead papers ran a half-page colour
photo of Archbishop Ndungane and 50 Years stalwart Dennis Brutus
wrapped in chains, symbolising Dennis' time on Robbin Island (where
he broke stones with Mandela) and the fact that even with apartheid
formally gone, the country remains chained. The event was
extraordinarily upbeat, and a sense of a more rapid, durable
reconstitution of progressive processes and ideology is now
palpable.
On Monday, the top finance department bureaucrat felt sufficiently
threatened by all of this activity to release a statement and
generate media publicity around the specious argument that SA's
foreign debt (now about $25 billion for private and public sector
combined) is not a problem; our dispute with her is intensifying
about whether we consider loans from NY/London/German/Swiss banks to
SA banks and firms prior to the 1994 elections -- loans which were
effectively guaranteed by the then apartheid government, which gained
access to the hard currency associated with those loans -- as part of
the apartheid debt that we consider "odious". More campaigning
handles around this issue are being developed with German colleagues
in the days ahead, so let me or Brian Ashley (J2000 organising
secretary) (aidc@iafrica.com, http:\\www.aidc.org.za) or George Dor
(J2000 publicity secretary) (george@wn.apc.org) know if you have any
ideas or solidarity for us.
On Tuesday the Jubilee 2000 Johannesburg branch -- with 30
serious activists, led by Rev Molefe Tsele, who is chair of SA's J2000
-- began planning the March 1999 South-South workshop. Much more
information about that is on the way.
Yesterday Samir Amin, the Dakar-based coordinator of Forum for World
Alternatives (a network of networks of progressive social movements
and intellectuals, he calls it) gave two talks in Johannesburg to
activists and academics that drew nearly packed houses; his
arguments about the global overproduction and financial speculation
crises were very well received, and it seems that confidence is
growing amongst the key democratic movement strategists to challenge
the country's demonstrably ineffectual economic policies.
Later today I'll post a recent ANC/SACP/union analysis of the
global crisis. It is surprisingly radical -- like Amin, stressing the
ingrained *capitalist* character of the overproduction/speculation
phenomenon. However, macroeconomic policy remains overwhelmingly the
stuff of the Washington Consensus. era. Several of us -- inspired by
Ben Fine of the University of London -- are quite concerned about the
drift towards an unthinking endorsement of post-WC without clarifying
lines of argument and dispute. Is this a scenario others are facing
in different settings? I'll also post some thoughts on this matter
that I have, assuming I have your tolerance!
Yours,
P.
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