Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
The contribution of the UDF to freedom in South Africa - Part Five
11th September 2023 The demise of the UDF and popular power: its relevance to recovering our battered freedom “The popular struggle for democracy has been replaced by... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part Four
By: Raymond Suttner 4th September 2023 Conditions underpinning successful Popular Power activities and provoking abuses/collapse When one considers the UDF period, we obviously want to... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part three 
By: Raymond Suttner 22nd August 2023 The UDF as both an agent of the ANC as well as autonomous actor This is Part three in a series. Read Part one and two. →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part two
By: Raymond Suttner 21st August 2023 The current commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the UDF is foregrounding certain elements of the experience of the UDF and underplaying or... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understandings of freedom – Part one
By: Raymond Suttner 7th August 2023 When one looks at the statements made in commemorating 40 years since the formation of the United Democratic Front (UDF) one does not generally get... →
Being a revolutionary or pursuing an emancipatory path in the “15 wasted years” – Series final part 7
By: Raymond Suttner 3rd July 2023 This series was conceived as an attempt to ask what it means to be a revolutionary in South Africa, starting around 1960 with the banning of the... →
Being a revolutionary or believer in emancipatory transformation in post-apartheid South Africa: Part six
By: Raymond Suttner 28th June 2023 The onset of democratic rule set in motion a completely different framework for politics from that previously practised in the ANC and its allies.... →
Being a revolutionary/pursuing an emancipatory path in period of negotiations: Part five
By: Raymond Suttner 19th June 2023 The period of negotiations was one way - one cannot say that there was any single way - of playing out a revolutionary role. Some would see it as... →
Revolutionary or emancipatory consciousness and action after 1976: Part four
By: Raymond Suttner 13th June 2023 As indicated, the decade after the Rivonia Trial was not one of the absence of resistance, although in the case of the ANC and SACP cadres, they... →
Revolutionary or emancipatory consciousness and activity from the Rivonia trial to the 1976 uprising: Part three
By: Raymond Suttner 5th June 2023 This article and those that precede and follow it concern revolutionary (or emancipatory) consciousness and revolutionary activity in the context... →
