By Shawn Hattingh Over the last few weeks in South Africa, community protests and land occupations have once again erupted. People are simply...
Articles by ILRIG
On the quality of South Africa’s Democracy
By Leonard Gentle Now that the dust has settled on the 2011 local government elections and the frenzied one-upmanship of the leading political...
Mangaung Versus Marikana: COSATU Chooses Sides
By Leonard Gentle In the run up to the September COSATU Congress, the media began to float the story that Zwelenzima Vavi’s position as General...
Mazibuko and Malema: New Profiles, Reshuffling Social Forces
By Leonard Gentle Two events have been the subject of recent media comment: the ANC Youth League’s (ANCYLs) march for “economic freedom” and the...
Libya and the BRICS: Currency Wars, Imperial Wars, and Popular Uprisings
By Leonard Gentle On one side of the world NATO bombs Libya and on the other, the newly expanded BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South...
Fear and Loathing in South Africa: The Malema Phenomenon
By Leonard Gentle Ah Julius Malema…everywhere else, the world is responding to the biggest crisis of capitalism since 1929 and the threat posed to...
Beyond Malema: Neoliberalism and corruption
By Leonard Gentle The ongoing saga around Julius Malema and his millions achieved through state tenders has rightfully generated public disgust....
Basil D’Oliviera Had a Much Larger Significance
By Leonard Gentle “What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?” the famous injunction by Trinidadian socialist writer, C.L.R James, in his...
AngloPlat: The Economic Propaganda War and the Battle for Democracy
By Leonard Gentle This article was first published online here: http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1544 How soon we forget…When the striking workers...
Andries Tatane: Murdered by the ruling classes
By Shawn Hattingh On the 13th of April, people in South Africa were stunned. On the evening news, the sight of six police force members brutally...
All Geared Up for a New Growth Path – On the Road to Nowhere
By Shawn Hattingh It has become common knowledge that South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Only 41% of people of working age are...
A Spectre Is Haunting Europe: The People Won’t Listen!
By Leonard GentleThe Presidential elections in France and the general elections in Greece are seismic events, which have significance way beyond the...