YACOOB ABBA OMAR: Will May poll be a step towards right-wing authoritarianism?
10 April 2024 - 05:00
“A dark shadow of creeping authoritarianism looms over India as it prepares for its 18th general election,” wrote Yamini Aiyar, Indian policy analyst in this week’s The Economist. Will May 29 lay the basis for SA’s inexorable descent, similar to that of India, to a right-wing, homophobic, xenophobic and perhaps even tribalist regime?
Globally, progressive forces committed to nonracialism, democracy and liberalism are involved in a battle to the death with the forces of repression and nativism...
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