The government must acknowledge the severe unemployment crisis we’re facing and declare it a national emergency.
Crisis of unemployment
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Unemployment
JOINT PRESS STATEMENT: Statement of outrage against the weaponisation of xenophobia and the brutal and unlawful treatment of migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers
Various organisations and individuals have condemned the aggressive approach of state officials towards the safety of migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, amid rising anti-migrant rhetoric and vigilantism in South Africa.
Mass unemployment by design: rethinking South Africa’s manufactured economic consensus
South Africa’s ongoing and worsening mass unemployment stems from a deliberate, market-friendly, and pro-business economic consensus that has proven ineffective over the past 30 years.
The story of a victim of Operation Dudula
Amandla! spoke to Tendai, a victim of Operation Dudula, about her experience at the Spartan clinic in Ekurhuleni.
The crisis of a nation betrayed
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address was an exercise in spin. The claim that South Africa is on a path to recovery contradicts a harsh and worsening reality.
Beyond the script: Why the State of the Nation needs a rupture, not reform
South Africa does not lack wealth. It lacks power in the hands of the majority.
The SACP’s election gambit: betrayal masquerading as liberation
The SACP’s current trajectory serves the interests of the bourgeois nationalist elite and perpetuates the suffering of the working class.
SA needs to reject the dogma that wages are a burden
Suppressing wages suppresses demand, and suppressed demand suffocates investment.
Amandla at 100: confronting the threat of a resurgent right
Amandla! has always been more than a magazine. It is part of an ecosystem of movements, thinkers, activists, workers, feminists, youth organisers, and internationalists committed to building a just, democratic, and egalitarian society.