In the latest issue of Red Pepper

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This is the Contents page from Red Pepper's latest issue, AFRICAN AWAKENINGS.

03 Editorial.
Democracia real YA!

06 Letters, Noticeboard,
Jeremy Hardy Thinks.

08 Plattitudes
The world according to Steve Platt.

10 All work and no pay
Anne-Marie O’Reilly and Warren Clark report on plans to extend ‘workfare’

12 Under the radar: Democracy squashed
Lorna Stephenson and Emma Hughes meet SQUASH, the squatters’ action group ignored in the anti-squatting media furore

13 Occupy London! Creating space for change
Occupy LSX activist Kelly Bornshlegel talks about the dynamic democracy of the camps

15 A turning point in US politics?
Siobhan McGuirk visits the Occupy camp in Washington DC.

16 Punishing Palestine
Libby Powell on how the US has retaliated after Palestine’s UN statehood bid

18 Mythbuster: The truth about the unions
Red Pepper knocks down some of the anti-strike myths thrown at the unions

20 Educating the nation
Melissa Benn, author of School Wars, discusses education with teacher Anna Wolmuth

24 The euro: break or remake?
Kenneth Haar opens our debate about the future of the euro.

28 African Awakenings: Hope for the future
Firoze Manji charts the revolts and rebellions across the continent

31 Aspiring to Tahrir
Justin Pearce asks when African hope will translate into real change.

32 After Gaddafi
The National Transitional Council’s ‘new Libya’ is all too familiar, writes Tommy Miles

34 Don’t feed the world?
As the media again reports 'famine in the horn of Africa', Rasna Warah argues food aid can do more harm than good

36 Natural born rebel: Shack fightback
Bandile Mdlalose talks to Lorna Stephenson about Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical poor people’s movement in South Africa

37 In pictures: Then and now
Paul Weinberg introduces Afrapix’s work from apartheid-era South Africa and after

40 A quiet resistance
Sokari Ekine meets women’s movements in the Niger Delta.

42 Reclaiming the South African dream
South African activist Vishwas Satgar looks at post-apartheid South Africa 17 years on

46 Bashing the fash
Michael Calderbank speaks to some of those who have literally fought the fascists

48 Olympian struggle
East London activists write on their seven years of campaigning over the 2012 Olympics development

51 Winners and losers
Richard Harkinson introduces those fighting the mining firms whose metal makes Olympic medals

52 Olympic waste
In this extract from his latest book, Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair recalls a visit to the site of the Games

54 Toronto tales
Juliette Daigre and Tom Malleson guide us round Canada’s most radical city.

57 A night at the multiplex
Sean Gittins talks to Mark Kermode about modern cinema and the role of the film critic

60 Off with their heads!
Red Pepper speaks to Martin Rowson about his 30-plus years as a scourge of the political establishment

62 Book reviews
Britain’s Empire: resistance, repression and revolt, From Dictatorship to Democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation, More Bad News from Israel, No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way, The White Van Papers, Catch 22

66 Fight for power
Selina Nwulu reviews new civil rights movement documentary Black Power Mixtape

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