‘People think we are only surviving bombs here. But we are also surviving erasure—of our stories, our hopes, our entire selves.’ A. Mansour
The genocide in Gaza isn’t just attacking our bodies, it’s erasing our memories
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Goodyear closure demands a paradigm shift: Workers must take over factories
The closure of Goodyear in Kariega is more than just another company shutting its doors. It is a brutal reminder of the structural crisis facing South Africa’s working class.
Reclaiming the radical traditions of workers’ education
Workers’ education must support the renewal of the practices of collective and democratic learning for radical social consciousness.
Reject inflation targeting: create jobs
South Africa’s current inflation targeting regime, rooted in a liberalised financial framework, has failed to address the country’s core development challenges.
Gwede Mantashe’s proposed changes to the MPRDA: A new chapter for South Africa’s mining and petroleum industries
The Minerals Council does not want to be forced to engage with communities despite the appalling record of failure of voluntary Social and Labour Plans over the entire post-apartheid period.
Free State – a province in crisis, and Botshabelo – the symbol of broken promises
Botshabelo, and the Free State at large, deserve better than bucket toilets, fake RDP houses, and broken infrastructure.
The Mirage of a Palestinian State
More countries recognizing a hypothetical entity called “State of Palestine” is symbolically positive. But under the present conditions, it can’t be more than a renewed version of the vast prison within which the Zionist state confines the Palestinian people in the 1967-occupied territories.
If only land were expropriated in South Africa…
In the past five years, very little land has been redistributed, and one of the central reasons has been the chronic underfunding of land reform.
The Age of Fanon, 1
Frantz Fanon would have been 100 years old this year, a cause for sombre commemorations at a time when his words feel prophetic and empowering, yet devastating at the same time.