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 →
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 →
War On Climate Intensifies
At the conclusion of the COP21 meeting in Paris in December last year, 195 countries signed an inadequate and non-binding climate change agreement. Grossly vague and misleading language accompanied the Continue Reading →
Capitalism Rears its Ugly Head Once Again
De Beers Consolidated Mines has sold its remaining mines to Petra Diamonds and Ekapa, without consulting with workers and the National Union of Mine Workers. About 600 workers are now 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 →