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The National Dialogue is incapable of addressing the structural roots of inequality, unemployment and state collapse.
Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.
Two decades of ANC-led neoliberalisation, which has surrendered democracy, development and state formation to capital, consolidated the strategic defeat of the Left and working class in South Africa.
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.
WHEN WE THINK OF NORTH stars, we think of a destination we feel we are striving for. The South African Left lacks a north star today. The truth of contemporary South African politics is that the anti-apartheid struggle was the great unifier of progressive forces. It...
The Working Class Summit bounces back LAST MONTH, 600 ACTIVISTS packed into a Johannesburg hall for the first meeting in several years of the Working Class Summit. It was a welcome sight for the many sore eyes on the South African Left. The WCS’s main convener is the...
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 should make a serious effort to understand the reasons behind the public disinterest in supporting progressive economic ideas.