Education Series by Jonathan Payn - Part 1 Twenty-five years into democracy the black working class majority in South Africa has not experienced any...
Articles by ILRIG
Press Statement: Solidarity with the Boiketlong 4
On the 21st April 2015 the Magistrates Court in Sebokeng sentenced 4 community activists from Boiketlong, to a total of 16 years in prison. The...
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Videos and pictures emerged of township residents being forced, at gun point, to do physical exercises in public spaces. Others showed soldiers hitting and kicking people who had evidently been in violation of one or another of the strict regulations.
Trump is a bony-eared assfish…and other tales from the Covid-19 rogues gallery (Part One)
By Dale T. McKinley (This article was first published here). Even during the best of times, there are always going to be rogues in our midst....
Workers’ Strikes and the Battle for Public Opinion
Ah, so we have the strike season with us again. And with every story goes the same tiresome media refrain: “intimidation.” This, of course, is bolstered by every tame economist saying what they are so well paid to say: “The strikes are bad for the country. Labour laws are too rigid and strikes will only scare off investors and drive up joblessness. The demands being made are way above necessary, and therefore, certain to fuel inflation.”
Women in the Arab Uprisings
By Koni Benson “Women’s participation during the revolution was remarkable.” Egyptian activist Shaza Abdel Lateef speaks against a backdrop of...
What constitutes “the next economy”? (Part 2)
By Leonard GentleToday there is no lack of ideas of what may be alternatives to this casino economy – they range from the obvious – banning the most...
Venezuela and the ‘Bolivarian Revolution’: Beacon of hope or smoke and mirrors?
By Shawn Hattingh For many people on the left, within and outside of Southern Africa, the ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ is seen as a beacon of socialist...
What constitutes “the next economy”? (Part 1)
By Leonard GentleWith the ongoing global crisis of capitalism one hears so much about the need for some kind of economic fix that will take the...
The Youth Wage Subsidy: Mixing farce with force
By Leonard GentleThe spectacle of the blows between a Democratic Alliance-led crowd and COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) would have...
The youth are the global anti-capitalist movement
By Shawn Hattingh Since the mid-1990s, millions and millions of young people across the world have become involved in fighting global capitalism and...
The threat to Democracy can also come from other quarters
By Leonard Gentle First, they came for Papandreou - and I didn't speak out because I thought the Greeks are just lazy tax-dodgers. Then they came...