Editor-in-chief of Amandla!, a magazine and website that aims to promote discussion and debate around a new left-wing, anti-capitalist politics in South Africa and Southern Africa. Brian Ashley is coordinator of the Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) and has played a leading role in various civil society initiatives to combat persistent inequalities, including facilitating the launch and implementation of the South African Jubilee 2000 campaign for debt cancellation and the campaign for the right to work.