By: Dale T McKinley* July 2023 [Published in: Daily Maverick...
INTERNATIONALISM AND THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: THE HYPOCRISY OF (SOME OF) THE LEFT
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Articles by ILRIG
ILRIG strongly condemns the shooting with live ammunition, of casual workers and activists
Public Statement 27 June 2023 The International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) strongly condemns the shooting with live ammunition,...
Vacancy: Researcher Educator
The International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) is an NGO based in Cape Town and in Johannesburg. ILRIG provides popular educational...
Scapegoating ‘illegal foreigners’ is no answer to South Africa’s historic, home-grown crises
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Mail & Guardian To paraphrase the official dictionary definition, scapegoating is the act of blaming a person,...
South Africa needs a more grounded, climate-conscious media
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick For the vast majority of the world’s population, climate change has become an ever-more integral,...
International migrants and the world of work in South Africa: exposing the ‘job stealing’ lies of the xenophobes
By Dale T. McKinley Published in New Agenda Xenophobic attitudes, politics and activities have always been a feature of both apartheid and...
Social cohesion after the 2021 unrest — where there’s political will, there is a way
By Sean Tait and Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick In order to build social cohesion, investments in development at the local level are...
Mental Health in This Time of Virus Capitalism: Now more than ever, we need revolutionary acts of love
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick. Studies suggest that close to 60% of adults in South Africa are experiencing higher levels of...
The ANC’s Failure to Fully Embrace the Right to Know Signals a Retreat from a People’s Democracy
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick. The right of access to information connects all other rights precisely because a commoning of and...
South Africa: Historic rupture or warring brothers again?
By Mandy Moussouris (EMG) and Shawn Hattingh (ILRIG) Published in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Everything we are now is built...
Unrest: Of understanding, representation and explanation
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick. At first, I hesitated to put fingers to keyboard on what transpired last week, given the large...
Unions in Crisis: Has the union form outlived its usefulness for workers?
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Amandla! Issue 76 and Workers' World News Issue 119. The general frame: A deep, systemic crisis There can be little...