By Dale T. McKinley Published in Mail & Guardian To paraphrase the official dictionary definition, scapegoating is the act of blaming a person, a group of people or an institution for something negative or bad that some other person, group of people or...
Around the world, in the form of rising temperatures, pandemics, scarce natural resources, forced migration, and increasing natural disasters, we are seeing the impacts of unbridled capitalist expansion on the environment. In this issue of Workers’ World News, we...
By Dale T. McKinley Published in Daily Maverick For the vast majority of the world’s population, climate change has become an ever-more integral, sizeable and destructive part of daily life. Despite this reality, for that same majority there remains a huge deficit...
Solidarity and internationalism take centre-stage in this issue of Workers’ World News, in light of deepening repression faced by the poor and working class. The recent spike in xenophobic rhetoric and attacks in South Africa demand that we take steps to build and...
By Dale T. McKinley Published in New Agenda Xenophobic attitudes, politics and activities have always been a feature of both apartheid and post-apartheid South African society. However, it was not until the first large-scale xenophobic violence erupted in South Africa...
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Scapegoating ‘illegal foreigners’ is no answer to South Africa’s historic, home-grown crises
