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THE government of Swaziland, renamed Eswatini, has insisted that King Mswati III has not fled the country, imposing a dusk-to-dawn curfew in a bid to curb democracy protests.
Streets have been barricaded and tyres set ablaze in the largest city, Manzini, and the central town of Matsapha in the most serious unrest seen in the southern African nation for decades.
Protesters are demanding a lift on the ban on political parties that has been in place since 1973 and for serious democratic reforms in the country, which is Africa’s last absolute monarchy.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
