A new opposition in Zimbabwe
On 8-9 February 2008, over 3,000 delegates from fifty civic groups, social movements, trade unions and the revolutionary left gathered in Harare. The delegates, including 300 from the International Socialist Organisation and its allies, were at a convention entitled: “Reclaiming Our Future, Deciding Zimbabwe’s Destiny.” The People’s Convention was following up the All-Stakeholders Conference held in Bulawayo on 29 September 2007 which had rejected the secretive and exclusive Mbeki-mediated talks on Zimbabwe’s future. A National Task Force was set up to meet the Movement for Democratic Change...