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We are the Poors

Community Struggles in Post-apartheid South Africa
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An inside view of the growth of one community movement that began in the township of Durban, South Africa. As this movement spread, embracing other communities and linking with labor stuggles in other parts of the country new forms of solidarity and resistance emerged, culminating in the massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Confeerence Against Racism.
Ashwin Desai teaches at the Workers' College in Durban, South Africa, and is a newspaper columnist and community activist. He is the author of Arise Ye Coolies and South Africa: Still Revolting.
"An exceptionally vivid and precise account of daily experiences in the new class apartheid ... Desai's book tells the story of how desperation and powerlessness have turned into organized opposition and an articulate, sophisticated language of resistance." -Mail & Guardian "One is transported from barricade to courtroom to communal cooking-pot to dance-floor. You get to see the struggle from the inside out ... All I know who have read it, feel in fighting form after putting it down." -Natal Mercury
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