A New Trade Union Federation
Some years ago it was a common idea amongst voices on the left that a progressive working class movement could only be realised once the Congress of South African Trade Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Politics
SONA Heralds More Austerity Measures
The State of the Nation Address by Jacob Zuma, at the behest of the ANC collective, ushered a new wave of austerity measures that does not augur well for the Continue Reading →
Economic Freedom Fighters in Perspective
Julius Malema recently led a delegation of his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on a speaking tour of London. The hosts of the EFF in London were research institutes and bourgeois Continue Reading →
More On The Student Revolt: What Is To Be Done?
In a well attended parent-support-for-university students meeting held in Cape Town on Saturday past (31st October), a number of issues emerged that are worthy of further interrogation. This meeting was Continue Reading →
The Student Revolt – Higher Education Battles Continue
University student protests hit South Africa from mid-October, continuing the “Rhodes must fall” struggle at the University of Cape Town earlier in the year. These revolts were reminiscent of those Continue Reading →