Professor Jonathan Jansen writes in The Times today: "We got a brief glimpse of a revival of the spirit of 1976 as young people joined marches under the banner of Equal Education, one of the most inspiring citizen movements to emerge in recent times. These young people encounter the stubbornness of the proud in government, who cannot do something as simple as develop minimum standards for school infrastructure - in other words, provide the basis for the very things that the youth in the 1970s and 1980s demanded from a racist regime. Such action by pupils offers a new politics "beyond itself", as a thoughtful colleague puts it, where youth act on behalf of others with an agenda that is not only non-violent but morally compelling in a country that in so many other ways has lost its soul."
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:28:06 +0000
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