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…We face social and economic disasters associated with having one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world…Unemployment and the associated social crises of gender-based violence, substance abuse, racism and xenophobia are a national emergency.
The post-elections moment is key. Left and working class forces need to look beyond the elections and focus on sustainably building a longer- term, post elections set of strategies for transformation of local government.
We need to cut CO2 emissions from burning coal, oil and gas by at least 90% globally in the next fifteen or twenty years.
The struggle against austerity, against wage cuts and retrenchments in the public sector, and the struggle against corruption are intimately linked. They provide the bridge for building the necessary worker / community alliance.
After 25 years of democracy, more than one child out of every four in South Africa is undernourished and has stunted growth.
Even before the arrival of Covid-19, South Africa faced a national health crisis. Some of the most important features of this crisis are the very high burden of disease, enormous disparities in health and its social determinants, deep inequities between public and private sectors, a crisis in human resources for health, and weak mechanisms for popular participation in health.
From the earliest days of post-Apartheid South Africa, major corporations have corrupted the state by offering bribes in order to get lucrative contracts.
THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD are being urged by the great advocates and defenders of capitalism to ditch neoliberalism and use the great power of the state, as they have with the pandemic,
As lockdowns become the main strategy of governments to contain the spread of the virus, the onset of a new global recession will accelerate.