Articles by ILRIG

by Shawn Hattingh In the midst of gorging themselves through exploitation and corruption, competing factions of the flabby ruling class in South...

by Shawn Hattingh Introduction Globally and in South Africa, the capitalist system is becoming more and more unstable. Over the last period, the...

by Shawn Hattingh The hope that the end of apartheid would herald a better life for the oppressed in South Africa has evaporated. Their conditions...

by Jonathan Payne Comrades, the talk I am giving is based on a paper that I have written. The paper is a work in progress. I am hoping that, through...

by Shawn Hattingh Mechanisation and automation have been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But these are not inevitable or neutral economic...

by Shawn Hattingh When the crash becomes a reality, the political and social consequences will be chaotic and very uncertain. In early January,...

by Dale T McKinley SA’s "transition" often feels like what a laboratory mice treadmill looks like — a lot of running and what appears to be forward...

by Mzimasi Mngeni Land occupations across the country are an indication of the ongoing attacks on the living standards of the working class. The...

by Jonathan Payne Around the world the ruling class (capitalists, politicians and state managers) is trying to restore its profits by making the...

by Shawn Hattingh In this edition of the Education Series we look at one of the greatest experiments with an alternative to capitalism: the 1936...

by Shawn Hattingh The context we now exist in is one that is defined by glaring contradictions everywhere, its fractured, changing, unstable and...

26 November 2019In recent months there have been numerous reports received of police brutality meted against artisanal miners (otherwise known as...