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A key element of the crisis of politics in South Africa lies in the great levels of disillusionment and apathy toward politics of millions of working class people. The “protagonists of the revolution” don’t believe politics is for them. Many believe today that “all...
So where does the trade union movement go from here? It seems clear that we have now reached a point where the interests of the leadership have become separated from those of the membership, of many unions.
The anti-capitalist moment has gone. Can it be regenerated? This is not so easy to answer, especially in a context in which globally there is a shift to the right.
In 1994, 4.7 million South Africans were unemployed. Now, as we approach the 25th anniversary of the first democratic election, that number has almost doubled to 8.9 million.
A Ramaphosa ANC will have to base its strategy on a continuation of the neoliberal strategy of the Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma governments.
How can we argue for a multi-class United Front, if we can’t create a working class united front?
Trevor Ngwane is right, for most people life under the capitalist system is frustrating, bleak, short, brutal and nasty. I agree with Ngwane that the point is not merely to be philosophical about the social ills facing us in the 21st century, but to overhaul the...
Revolution WITHIN Capitalism Dear Peter, I have read your recent response to Trevor Ngwane, and have also read your 1998 book on "Globalisation...", of which your recent email is a summary. I must say that I found both your book and your recent response very weak....
Now and then there emerges somewhere in the world a social movement that is really exceptional for its integrity, astuteness and mass appeal. For me one of those rare movements is Brazil’s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST, the Landless Workers’...