By Shawn Hattingh 26 November 2020 First published on Medya News. The sight of people marching and undertaking protests to occupy land has become...
The fight for housing in South Africa needs to also be a fight for freedom
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Articles by ILRIG
South Africa’s new lockdown regulations explicitly ban all ‘political gatherings’
By Dale T. McKinley 19 January 2021 First published in the Daily Maverick. In the general fog that has enveloped our pandemically framed world, it...
Using comics to change our minds and (hopefully) the world
By Mandy Moussoris and Dale T. McKinley 20 November 2020 First published in The Daily Maverick. The telling of stories is a tried and tested way of...
South Africa: Breathing life into workers’ struggles
By Shawn Hattingh and Dale T. McKinley 17 November 2020 First published in Global Labour Column Number 363 Over the past decade, workers – often...
Nigeria and the Hope of the #EndSARS Protests
By Shawn Hattingh 10 November 2020 First published in Green Left Weekly Issue 1288. A video went viral on social media platforms on October 3,...
Trump, the 2020 elections and US democracy: The more things change, the more they stay the same
The reality is that regardless of whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden gets into the White House, and whatever the results of the Senate and House...
Whatever happens…it’s the end of the world as we know it
First published in Green Left Weekly By: Shawn Hattingh (ILRIG) “There is a very big risk that we will just end our civilisation”. These are not the...
COVID 19: The Politics of Disease and the Disease of Politics Pt.1
by Leonard Gentle Part 1: Global Upheavals and the Politics of Disease As we enter the second week of South Africa’s lock-down to fight the Covid 19...
Class struggle, the left and power: A libertarian socialist alternative
by Jonathan Payne The first parts of this series gave readers a basic introduction to an ‘authoritarian’ or state socialist [Marxist] theoretical...
Covid-19 and Capitalism: ‘Pandemics… have their roots in environmental change and ecosystem disturbances’
by Dale T. McKinley As the escalating crisis of the climate crisis is so tragically and consistently showing, unless there is a reframing of human...
David versus the Goliaths: a whistle-blower’s ongoing battle to hold SA’s financial and legal system accountable
by Dale T. McKinley In a society that values principle, honesty and accountability things should not be this way. Hitjevi Tjiroze is not a household...
South Africa’s Polluting Giants – it’s about profits and class
by Shawn Hattingh When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, South Africa falls within the 15 biggest polluters in the world ·In 2015 alone, South...