March against the G20!
Sunday, November 23: gather at 10AM at Diepkloof Extreme Park, Zone 5, Diepkloof (near corner of Baragwanath Road and Immink Drive), and march to the G20 Summit at Nasrec
Break the G20!...
…before it breaks all of us!
At a time of stress unprecedented since 1945, societies must oppose senseless wars, capitalist crises, extreme inequality and ecocide.
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The world is in a deep crisis, which is tearing apart economies, societies and the environment.
We need a new global movement to get us out of this crisis. A movement that builds power from the ground up — connecting local struggles, uniting movements, and advancing clear political alternatives.
In November 2025, as a counter to the G20 Leaders’ Summit for the rich, we are planning a counter-summit: a People’s Summit for global economic justice for the rest of the world’s population – the 99%.
Built around the “We the 99%” call to action, the People’s Summit will unite social movements and civil society in a global effort to reclaim democracy and change the future.
https://wetheninetynine.com
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84736248638
Break the G20! teach-in, 22-23 November
In person at the University of Johannesburg Soweto Campus, join a two-day teach-in covering G20 ‘solidarity, equality, sustainability’ politics, hosted by Trevor Ngwane, Patrick Bond, Tafadzwa Choto, Cleopatra Shezi and the Centre for Social Change – or join us online as we broadcast live: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84736248638
The UJ Centre for Social Change offers critiques of G20 imperial + subimperial partnerships, for amplifying – not solving – the world’s problems. These politics pit the Trump regime (the ‘G1,’ boycotting SA) against other Western ‘G6’ ruling classes in alliance with the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa BRICS bloc… against everyone else and our planetary ecosystems.
The hosting of the Johannesburg G20 leaders’ summit at the Nasrec conference site – near Diepkloof, Soweto – on November 22-23, offers a chance on the prior weekend to learn from activists based in South Africa, G20 member states and the world’s economic periphery.
The teach-in helps question whether the ‘unipolar’ post-WWII institutions and capitalist markets are really being challenged by new ‘multipolar’ BRICS actors – or whether instead, the G20 merely co-opts both South African elites and their ‘S20’ civil society allies.
Topics include poverty and inequality; financial stability and fairness; ecocide; geopolitical frictions, e.g. genocide in Palestine; food sovereignty; and social + class struggles for justice.
A ‘Break the G20!’ teach-in will be held at UJ Soweto Campus (2km from Hani-Baragwanath Hospital). Also join us at We the 99% People’s Summit, November 20-22 at Constitution Hill.
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FRIDAY! African Rainbow Minerals AGM 12:30- 14h Maude St. Sandton Protest ongoing fuelling of Israel’s genocide in Gaza + destruction of our environment + harming of our communities +nepotism, corruption… come through! ARM’s the worst!!
For 101 years, TotalEnergies has exploited African communities and ecosystems while pretending to be “green.” Enough is enough!
Join frontline communities, youth, faith leaders, and civil society in demanding:
* No new oil & gas projects in Africa
* End greenwashing & misleading advertising
* Invest in community-led renewable energy
*Support a just, equitable energy transition
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Introducing BRICS from above, BRICS from the middle and BRICS from below
BRICS FROM ABOVE
Heads of state, Business Forum, elite allies
*BRICS as anti-imperialist (ANC & Pretoria rhetoric – “Talk Left, Walk Right”, e.g. national-liberation tradition, foreign ministry on global geopolitics, finance minister on IMF reform, sports minister on FIFA)
*BRICS as sub-imperialist (Pretoria relegitimising world capitalism, lubricating neoliberalism in - and exploiting - Africa, intensifying class war against SA’s poor/workers/women/nature on behalf of global/local capital, ensuring maximum greenhouse gas emissions alongside BASIC/US no matter local/continental/global consequences, and playing “deputy sheriff” role to imperialism)
*BRICS as inter-imperialist (Pretoria's potential support for a new internet delinked from US, promotion of Putin v Obama in September 2013 at G20, and mainly backing Russia in Crimea/Ukraine conflict - as well as earlier episodes where SA lined up with China in UN e.g. in relation to Burma)
BRICS FROM THE MIDDLE
Academic Forum, trade unions, NGOs
BRICS advocates (most of Academic Forum, Johannesburg & Pretoria “think tanks” and others who suffer persistent “failure of analytical nerve”)
*wait-and-see (most NGOs and trade unions - as well as “Third Worldist” intellectuals - who wish for BRICS to become “anti-impi” at UN, Bretton Woods Institutions, Development Bank, Contingent Reserve Arrangement, etc)
*critics (those associated with brics-from-below network who consider BRICS to be “sub-impis” and sometimes also “inter-impis”)
BRICS FROM BELOW
Grassroots activists whose visions run local to global
*localist (stuck within local or sectoral silos, including myriad “popcorn protests” - even some against BRICS corporations or projects - that are insurgent, unstrategic, momentary, at constant risk of becoming xenophobic, and prone to populist demagoguery)
*nationally-bound (most activists who are vaguely aware of - and hostile to - BRICS yet so overwhelmed by local, national and sectoral battles, they fail to link across borders - even BRICS hinterlands)
*solidaristic-internationalist (“global justice movement” allies aspiring for joint campaigning against common BRICS enemies such as Vale, China Development Bank, DBSA, Transnet/mega-shipping, fossil fuel corporations and other polluters, coming BRICS Development Bank)
JEALOUS PRO-WEST CAPITALISTS
Most white organic intellectuals of capital connected to Old Money, multinational-corporate branch plants, Business Day, northern-centric big biz, Democratic Alliance and their ilk.
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