MDC
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe votes yes to the new constitution.
Zimbabwe socialists: 15 reasons to vote ‘No’ to the draft constitution
The COPAC constitution is a negotiated and elitist peace char
Zimbabwe: Corporate collaboration lets Mugabe continue abuses
Corporate cash continues to feed Mugabe's rule.
By
Patrick Bond, Zimbabwe
Crisis in Zimbabwe -- a long walk to freedom! Latest issue of ISO Zimbabwe's `Socialist Worker'
Robert Mugabe (centre) and GNU partners Morgan Tsvangirai (left) and Arthur Mut
A mid-2011 election announced by Mugabe promises a return to outright violence and poll thievery.
By Patrick
Bond, Bulawayo
November 12, 2010 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – If leaders of a small African country stand up with confidence to imperialist aggression, especially from the US and Britain, it would ordinarily strike any fair observer as extremely compelling. Especially when the nightmare of racist colonialism in that country is still be to exorcised, whites hold a disproportionate share of economic power and state’s rulers appear serious about changing those factors.
Zimbabwe: Liberation nationalism, old and born again
Zimbabwe: Struggle, dictatorship and the response of the social movements
By Leo Zeilig
June 28, 2010 – Zimbabwe’s economy has been in free fall. Between 2000 and 2005, the economy contracted by more than 40 per cent. Today GDP per capita is estimated to be the same as it was in 1953. Before the replacement of the Zimbabwe dollar with the US dollar and the South African rand in 2009, the country had the highest inflation rate in the world, soaring to 165,000 per cent in February 2008.
Zimbabwe: Despite Mugabe's opportunism, radical land reform is necessary
Zimbabwe: The struggle enters a new stage
Munyaradzi Gwisai of the ISOZ at the World at a Crossroads conference. Photo by Alex Bainbridge.
By Munyaradzi Gwisai
[Read or download the May 2009 issue of the ISOZ's newspaper, Socialist Worker, at the end of this article.]
May 6, 2009 -- The formation of the government of national unity (GNU) in Zimbabwe between the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) in February 2009 was the logical outcome of the agreement made between them in the middle of last year. The final negotiations had stalled as Mugabe tried to manipulate the details to exact maximum concessions from the MDC.
