A NATION MOURNS

NOVANEWS THE PASSING OF CDE NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA 5 December 2013 Comrades and friends, The Mandela family, Fellow South Africans, “In the life of every nation, there arise men who leave an indelible and eternal […]

Mandela – The "Great Statesman"

NOVANEWS Mandela with SACP boss, Joe Slovo“Nelson Mandela is a symbol, an icon, one of the world’s most famous statesmen, recognised and revered by all. He dines with royalty, associates with the world’s great leaders […]

Do Elections Make Any Difference?

NOVANEWS Plus ça Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose by ANDREW LEVINE In the run up to the Presidential election of 1960, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Harvard historian and Kennedy courtier, published a book called Kennedy or […]

Self-Boycott

NOVANEWS Israelis Can’t Imagine Peace by URI AVNERY Can a country boycott itself? That may sound like a silly question. It is not. At the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the “Giant of History” as […]

Japan’s New ‘Fukushima Fascism’

NOVANEWS The Escalating Catastrophe by HARVEY WASSERMAN Fukushima continues to spew out radiation. The quantities seem to be rising, as do the impacts. The site has been infiltrated by organized crime. There are horrifying signs of ecological disaster […]