When you organise unemployed people, they think that you organise them to get money.
Organising the unemployed: The Botshabelo Unemployed Movement
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THE POPULIST THREAT AND THE RESPONSE OF THE LEFT
The ANC-DA Alliance is more deeply committed to neoliberalism even than its predecessors.
The private sector continues to stifle democracy
Energy sector trade unions have expressed profound worries about what the Just Energy Transition Partnership will mean for workers.
Election 2024 results underscore failure of openly ethno-nationalist parties (Part One)
While the GNU has every chance of being good for some, the same cannot be said about the many.
Between Two Evils
This article was first published on the Africa is a Country website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Politics during apartheid had a certain straight-line simplicity. It was always pretty clear who the...
Elections 2024: Just another stop on a long road to nowhere?
This article was first published in City Press. We are publishing a variety of views on the election results to stimulate debate. South Africa held its national and provincial elections on 29 May, amid the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Contrary to...
Populism at the heart of the 2024 elections
This article was first published on the Elitsha website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Populism defined the recent elections, inviting reactionary ideas into the mainstream. What does the outcome of...
Elections: WAY FORWARD FOR THE LEFT
WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the profound effect this election is going to have on shaping the medium-term political landscape in the country. That means that it’s going to have a profound effect on how to go about trying to construct a Left party. And there are major...
RENEWING THE LEFT: NOT JUST DOOM AND GLOOM
THIS ARTICLE SEEKS TO RESPOND to the questions posed by Amandla! which relate to the South African Left in particular: where is the Left intellectually, programmatically and organisationally? What has happened to it, and why has it become so fragmented and marginal?...