by Shawn Hattingh Introduction Globally and in South Africa, the capitalist system is becoming more and more unstable. Over the last period, the...
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Fueling the fires: South Africa in class war
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...
Lessons from the 1984-85 Vaal Uprising for Rebuilding a United Front of Communities and Workers Today
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...
The political nature of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Shawn Hattingh Mechanisation and automation have been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But these are not inevitable or neutral economic...
Bubble will burst and states will have no quick fixes
by Shawn Hattingh When the crash becomes a reality, the political and social consequences will be chaotic and very uncertain. In early January,...
How privatisation versus nationalisation debate is on a fast track to nowhere
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...
The ongoing wave of land occupation struggles
by Mzimasi Mngeni Land occupations across the country are an indication of the ongoing attacks on the living standards of the working class. The...
Workers’ power not bureaucrats power: lessons from Argentina
by Jonathan Payne Around the world the ruling class (capitalists, politicians and state managers) is trying to restore its profits by making the...
Revisiting 1936: The rise and fall of the Spanish Revolution
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...
A spectre is haunting us: it’s the past weighing like a nightmare on the present
by Shawn Hattingh The context we now exist in is one that is defined by glaring contradictions everywhere, its fractured, changing, unstable and...
Press Statement: Police must stop their harassment, violence and criminal activity against Zama Zamas (artisanal/ informal miners) in Langlaate (Johannesburg)
26 November 2019In recent months there have been numerous reports received of police brutality meted against artisanal miners (otherwise known as...
Press Statement: Support for the Rojava Revolution and call to end the isolation of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan
26 February 2019Very few South Africans are aware that currently in the north and eastern parts of Syria (Rojava) a revolution as progressive,...