by Shawn Hattingh The context we now exist in is one that is defined by glaring contradictions everywhere, its fractured, changing, unstable and...
Articles
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,...
Press Statement: ILRIG Suspension of Public Events and Activities in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
18 March 2020In light of the rapid global spread of COVID-19 (also known as the coronavirus) and its potentially devastating impact on South Africa,...
Class Struggle, the Left and Power
Education Series by Jonathan Payn - Part 1 Twenty-five years into democracy the black working class majority in South Africa has not experienced any...
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...