The Insourcing Bill is a political and moral commitment to rebuild the state and put an end to the corruption and inefficiency of outsourcing.
The EFF’s Insourcing Bill: rebuild the state
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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.
ELECTIONS 2024: IT’S TIME FOR THE LEFT TO TALK
Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.
BRICS TRADE UNION FORUM: LABOUR SHOULD NOT BE SPOKESPERSONS OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS
IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2023, THE MAIN trade union federations from BRICS countries converged in Durban for their annual trade union forum (BRICS TUF). The theme was “Cooperation for Fair and Inclusive Development for all Peoples of the World…” Their gathering was...
THE ALLIANCE IS DEAD: LONG LIVE THE ALLIANCE
Should the public sector unions decide to go on strike for an above inflation wage increase, which now seems inevitable, the left popular front could come into existence, if not in name then in deed.
Why Numsa has degenerated
This article has been jointly published with Daily Maverick. Comrades who have been unlawfully suspended by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) have been repeatedly asked one question over the past couple of weeks: “Why is this happening?” Why...
The Ruth Ntlokotse Interview: “Workers must continue to stand up and be organised”
54 Numsa worker leaders have been banned by the current national leadership from attending the elective congress and from standing for positions. This includes Saftu president Ruth Ntlokotse, who is also the Numsa second deputy president. Ntlokotse was suspended by a...
The long journey to recover and rebuild the unions has started
THE FIGHTBACK HAS BEGUN, BUT it will be a long road. In our last editorial we described how the labour movement has degenerated. How its leadership has become largely detached from the members. And how they have become corrupted by the lure of material benefits, in...
THE LONG JOURNEY TO RECOVER AND REBUILD THE UNIONS HAS STARTED
The fight back has begun, but it will be a long road. In our last editorial we described how the labour movement has degenerated.