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,...
Education Series by Jonathan Payn - Part 1 Twenty-five years into democracy the black working class majority in South Africa has not experienced any...
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...
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.
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....
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.”
By Koni Benson “Women’s participation during the revolution was remarkable.” Egyptian activist Shaza Abdel Lateef speaks against a backdrop of...
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...
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...
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...
By Leonard GentleThe spectacle of the blows between a Democratic Alliance-led crowd and COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) would have...
By Shawn Hattingh Since the mid-1990s, millions and millions of young people across the world have become involved in fighting global capitalism and...