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Articles
Social cohesion after the 2021 unrest — where there’s political will, there is a way
By Sean Tait and Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick In order to build social cohesion, investments in development at the local level are...
Mental Health in This Time of Virus Capitalism: Now more than ever, we need revolutionary acts of love
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick. Studies suggest that close to 60% of adults in South Africa are experiencing higher levels of...
The ANC’s Failure to Fully Embrace the Right to Know Signals a Retreat from a People’s Democracy
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick. The right of access to information connects all other rights precisely because a commoning of and...
South Africa: Historic rupture or warring brothers again?
By Mandy Moussouris (EMG) and Shawn Hattingh (ILRIG) Published in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Everything we are now is built...
Unrest: Of understanding, representation and explanation
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick. At first, I hesitated to put fingers to keyboard on what transpired last week, given the large...
Unions in Crisis: Has the union form outlived its usefulness for workers?
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Amandla! Issue 76 and Workers' World News Issue 119. The general frame: A deep, systemic crisis There can be little...
Defend Kurdistan Against Turkish Occupation
We – nearly 150 politicians, human rights advocates, journalists, academics, members of parliaments, political activists, ecologists, and feminists...
COVID-19 Working Class Campaign
View our school boycott flyer On Wednesday 18 March 2020 around 40 activists from various working class formations met at the House of Movements in...
The fight for housing in South Africa needs to also be a fight for freedom
By Shawn Hattingh 26 November 2020 First published on Medya News. The sight of people marching and undertaking protests to occupy land has become...
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...