Personliste om Nelson Mandela, først og fremmest med nekrologer og musik i anledning af hans død den 5. december 2013.
Link collection on Nelson Mandela. First and foremost with obituaries and music at his death December 5th, 2013.
Indhold
- Musik / Music
- Nekrologer
- Obituaries
- Se også
Se på Socialistisk Bibliotek: / See at Socialist Library:
Tidslinjen 27. april 1994 om det første frie valg til Sydafrikas parlament. 10. maj 1994 bliver ANC-lederen Nelson Mandela Sydafrikas første ikke-hvide præsident
Tidslinjen 12. juni 1964 om Nelson Mandelas liv og ANC for livstidsstraf til Mandela, og hvor der også er links til ANC’s historie fra dannelsen i 1912 til Marikana-massakren på minearbejdere i 2012.
Tidslinjen 8. januar 1912 om befrielsesbevægelsen ANC’s dannelse.
Musik / Music
Free Nelson Mandela (3 versions):
1) 1984-hit with The Special AKA (YouTube, 4:59 min.) – Wikipedia.org – Lyrics + 2) 1988 Mandela 70th Birthday: Special AKA live on the Tube feat Elvis Costello, Wakeling & Ranking … (YouTube, 5:43 min.)
3) Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute in Hyde Park, June 2008: Amy Winehouse (YouTube; 5:36 min.)
Nekrologer
Ingen krokodilletårer for Nelson Mandela. Af Slavoj Žižek (Information.dk, 11. december 2013). “Vi kan roligt regne med, at Mandela også døde som en bitter gammel mand – vel vidende, at han ikke for alvor havde udfordret magten.”
Nelson Mandela blev stemplet som terrorist. Af Ulla Jessing (Modkraft.dk/Blog, 9. december 2013). “Verden må lære af sine fejltagelser og må stoppe med at sætte frihedskæmpere på terroristlister.”
Tanker ved Mandelas død: Æres den, der æres bør! Af Torkil Lauesen (Modkraft/Kontradoxa, 9. december 2013). “I modsætning til Vesten ydede Cuba nemlig et aktivt og væbnet bidrag til det racistiske mindretalsstyres fald.”
Nelson Mandela – et strejftog gennem hans liv og kamp. Af Alfred Lang (Autonom Infoservice, 8. december 2013). “Nelson Mandela efterlader en enorm moralsk arv, som hans efterfølgere i ANCs korrupte top på ingen måde kan løfte.”
Terroristen Mandela. Af Søren Søndergaard (Modkraft/Blog, 8 december 2013). “ANC havde stået på EU’s terrorliste, hvis den havde eksisteret dengang.”
R.I.P. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Af John Molyneux (Socialistisk Arbejderavis, nr. 333, 6. december 2013; online på Internet Archive). “[Intet] ændrer det faktum, at Nelson Mandela, på trods af de politiske svagheder, efterlod verden som et bedre sted.”
Mandelas død er også den globale centrum-venstrefløjs endeligt. Af Brian Espensen (Politiken.dk, 6. december 2013). “I dag hyldes Mandela med den største selvfølgelighed, men man skal ikke bladre mange sider tilbage i historiebøgerne før det forholdt sig fundamentalt anderledes.”
Den danske højrefløj har haft det svært med Mandela. Af Flemming Ytzen (Politiken.dk, 6. december 2013). “Megen hyldest til frihedshelten, men danske borgerlige levede fint med apartheid.”
Kommunister verden over siger farvel (Arbejderen.dk, 20. december 20213; online på Internet Archive). “Nedenfor bringes et udpluk af de mange mindeord, der er udsendt af kommunistiske partier i forbindelse med Nelson Mandelas død og begravelse.”
Mandelas plads i det sydafrikanske “mirakel”. Af Hans Erik Stolten (Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa, 5. december 2013). “Historien, personligheden og organisationen.”
“Vi har allerede gennemlevet Mandelas død”. Af Malin Schmidt (Information.dk, 22. juni 2013). “Nelson Mandela ligger for døden. Igen. Og atter vokser myten om ham.”
Tidsdoku. Nelson Mandela – et strejftog gennem hans liv og kamp (Autonom Infoservice, 5. december 2016)
Obituaries etc.:
Madiba From A to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela. By Alexander Wieder (Counterfire, 9 January 2014). Review of Danny Schechter’s book (Seven Stories Press, 2014, 272 p.)
Nelson Mandela’s long march. By Aswin Desai (Against the Current, Issue 168, January-February 2014). “Often written out of [the] story are the sustained rebellions by millions of South Africans that were to lead to Mandela’s release from prison.”
A life shaped by the struggle (SocialistWorker.org, December 19, 2013). describes the political experiences and influences that shaped Nelson Mandela from the opening years of his engagement in the struggle.”
Why Mandela’s Communist Party membership is important. By Martin Plaut (New Statesman, 10 December 2013). “As we mourn Mandela’s death we should not forget and acknowledge the role that communists played in befriending and influencing this great man.”
Mandela: He was a bourgeois hero (Weekly Worker, Issue 990, December 6, 2013). “South African Marxist Hillel Ticktin discusses the role of Nelson Mandela.”
Mandela: Creation of a cult. By Peter Manson (Weekly Worker, Issue 990, December 6, 2013). “How should communists react to the almost universal adulation throughout the bourgeois media for Nelson mandela …?”
Nelson Mandela 1918-2013. By Robert Fine (Workers’ Liberty, 6 December 2013). “Mandela was a human being and despite all the efforts to sanctify him we do him no honour to subsume his politics or indeed his patrician personal peculiarities …“
Amandla! Tribute to Nelson Mandela. By Brian Ashley (Solidarity, December 6, 2013). “The negotiated settlement that brought about democratic SA on the basis of one person one vote will be regarded as Mandela’s greatest achievement.”
A dissenting opinion on Nelson Mandela. By Jonathan Cook (The Blog from Nazareth, 6 December 2013). “In my view, Mandela suffered a double tragedy in his post-prison years.”
SACP statement on the passing away of Madiba (pdf) (Umsebenzi Online, Vol.12, No.43, 6 December 2013). “The passing away of Cde Mandela marks an end to the life of one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century …”
Nelson Mandela. By J. Moufawad-Paul (M-L-M Mayhem!, 6 December 2013). “It is somewhat ironic to read all of the liberal media obituaries that are praising Nelson Mandela when, at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, many of these same media sites were castigating the ANC for its violence and supporting apartheid.”
Former South African President Nelson Mandela dies. By Patrick O’Connor (World Socialist Web Site, 6 December 2013) “… he died right at the point where social and political tensions in South Africa have reached a boiling point.”
– See more at: http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/75-our-history/16854-who-was-nelson-mandela#sthash.c3mqitp0.dpuf
Who was Nelson Mandela? By Neil Faulkner (Counterfire, 5 December 2013). “We should treasure the memory of the Mandela our rulers hated: the lonely, courageous, unbowed political prisoner, condemned for his resistance to racial oppression.”
Mandela’s years in power: Was he pushed or did he jump? By Patrick Bond (Links: Journal of Socialist Renewal, December 5, 2013). “… how did he change Africa … how much room was there for maneuvre?”. Also online at SocialistWorker.org: When Mandela was president (December 9, 2013)
Nelson Mandela 1918-2013. By Charlie Kimber (Socialist Worker, Issue 2382, 5 December 2013). “Nelson Mandela was a giant in the fight against racism—and the world’s most famous prisoner. He was a symbol of defiance against injustice that inspired a great movement of resistance and solidarity.”
Nelsom Mandela – an African nationalist. By Norman Traub (Socialist Resistance, December 5, 2013). “He and the leadership of the ANC however, could no longer hide when in government, that their class interests were opposed to those of the mass of workers.”
Mandela’s democracy. By Andrew Nash (Monthly Review, Vol.50, No.11, April 1999). “His ideological legacy – in South Africa and globally – is startlingly complex.”
Se også:
Dengang de borgerlige gav Mandela den kolde skulder og holdt hånden under apartheid (Arbejderen.dk, 12. februar 2020). “På 30-årsdagen for befrielsen af Nelson Mandela tager Arbejderen et kig tilbage til tiden, hvor det sydafrikanske apartheidregime havde flere danske venner blandt borgerlige politikere i Danmark. Pia Kjærsgaard kaldte Mandela for en ‘terroristleder’, og de borgerlige partier afviste at boykotte apartheidregimet.”
Mandela, Jyllands-Posten og alle de primitive negre. Af Ulrik Dahlin (Information.dk, 20. september 2008). “Når Jyllands-Posten bruger Nelson Mandela som reklame for sig selv, er det kærlighed af nyere dato. I dagene efter Sharpville-massakren i 1960 har avisen nemlig masser af forståelse for det racistiske hvide Sydafrika og er helt enig i, at landets ’primitive’ sorte befolkningsflertal befinder sig på ‘et lavt civilisatorisk stade’.”
