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...
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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...
The IMF and Trevor Manuel: A Plague on Both their Houses
By Leonard Gentle The arrest of Dominic Strauss-Kahn (DSK) on allegations of attempted rape certainly has got tongues wagging. In the Guardian...
A Chronology of Copping Out, COP 17: Durban November 2011 – What’s the Fuss?
By Koni Benson From being seen as a fringe concern to radicals only, and either dismissed outright or pushed to the margins by politicians and...
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The state, markets and “civil society”: Limiting struggles and limiting democracy
By Leonard Gentle Today we are regaled by notions that the state “lacks” capacity to do things. This is then used as motivation for why the state...
The Pandemic Surveillance State
In anticipation of the post-COVID-19 world, bold statements are being made on how we will, as a race, be wiser, even kinder; cautious, and...
The Crisis, Bailouts, Quantitative Easing, Tapering and Class War
By Shawn Hattingh Since 2009 the US state has been undertaking Quantitative Easing (QE), which has involved the US state creating $85 billion a...
State ‘capture’ or the nature of the state?
By Shawn Hattingh Across the political spectrum, individuals and organisations have been expressing their disgust and shock that a faction, indeed a...
South Africa: The state’s brutality
By Shawn Hattingh https://libcom.org/library/states-brutality In the last year and a half in South Africa, approximately 40 people involved in...