by Shawn Hattingh and Mandy Moussouris The late Stephen Hawkins had the following to say about the onset of the so-called 4th Industrial revolution:...
Inequality – you ain’t seen nothing yet
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New labour bills attack workers’ rights and democracy
by Jonathan Payne On 17 November 2017, the Minister of Labour of South Africa announced the state intends to carry out a new round of attacks on...
Education for revolution – Anarcho-syndicalist pedagogy.pdf
by Shawn Hattingh and Mandy Moussouris Mandy Moussouris and Shawn Hattingh explain the roots and principles of anarchosyndicalism and what these...
In the battle of factions there are no superheroes
by Shawn Hattingh The battle between Pravin Gordhan and Jacob Zuma has been presented along the lines of a superhero comic. Gordhan, the hero, is...
Local government and municipal employees
by Michael Blake Two decades ago, virtually all workers in the municipal sphere were permanent employees, directly employed by municipalities. Today...
Significance of the Labour Court ruling on CCMA rules of representation
by Mthetho Xali The Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO), Black Sash, the Maokeng Advice and Resource Centre and Ntombi Dladla took the Commission...
Brazil: High school students show way forward for working class resistance
by Jonathan Payne In September 2016 the Brazilian government published a Provisional Measure (MP 746) outlining a reform in secondary education that...
No Pravin, it was not progressive nor redistributive
by Shawn Hattingh Yesterday, the Minister of Finance of South Africa stood up in the circus that passes itself off as a National Parliament and...
South Africa and the changing possibilities for the Left
by Leonard Gentle The demise of COSATU, the failure of the “NUMSA moment” and the emergence of a new movement With the claims that a new trade union...
Social Insecurities
by Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima The Department of Social Development is sitting on a time bomb as it “struggles” to find a suitable company to replace Cash...
A South African ruling class brawl
by Shawn Hattingh In the midst of gorging themselves through exploitation and corruption, competing factions of the flabby ruling class in South...
Dangerous times
by Shawn Hattingh Introduction Globally and in South Africa, the capitalist system is becoming more and more unstable. Over the last period, the...