Over 10 million South Africans cannot find work. 12 million by some methods of calculation. At least 38% of the workforce.
SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE
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Editorials
LEFT ECONOMIC STRATEGY AND THE STATE
We should make a serious effort to understand the reasons behind the public disinterest in supporting progressive economic ideas.
UNEMPLOYMENT IS A CRISIS: WE MUST JOIN TOGETHER AND ACT
…Youth unemployment is hovering close to 70% and the unemployment rate for women is 42%. A generation is growing up who have no thought that they will ever have a job.
SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE
Instead of a flourishing society freed from racism, division and violence, post Apartheid South Africa is a society of social decay.
ESKOM, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE JUST TRANSITION
The coal-dependent electricity sector is responsible for almost 60% of total greenhouse gas emissions. South Africa has become, per capita, one of the most carbon intensive polluters in the world.
TIME TO REBUILD, TIME TO RETHINK
The anti-capitalist moment has gone. Can it be regenerated? This is not so easy to answer, especially in a context in which globally there is a shift to the right.
CONNECT THE DOTS
Who are the murder and rape victims in South Africa? What are gangs, if not enclaves of violence responding to exclusion from the world of work and income?
BUILDING THE MOVEMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE DISPOSSESSED
In 1994, 4.7 million South Africans were unemployed. Now, as we approach the 25th anniversary of the first democratic election, that number has almost doubled to 8.9 million.
DYSFUNCTIONAL ECONOMY NEEDS URGENT CHANGE
In the real world where we live, poverty is increasing; real people are going hungry; real people have even less to eat than they did last year; and the year before.