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.
PROSPECTS FOR A NEW LEFT
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Working Class Struggle
PERSPECTIVES FOR THE LEFT
There have been moments when opportunities for a revival of the socialist Left looked promising. The late 1990s saw the flourishing of a range of social justice struggles, which began to pose a challenge to the ANC government’s shift to neoliberalism.
UNEMPLOYMENT IS A CRISIS: WE MUST JOIN TOGETHER AND ACT
…Youth unemployment is hovering close to 70% and the unemployment rate for women is 42%. A generation is growing up who have no thought that they will ever have a job.
UNITED ACTION OF THE WORKING CLASS: AGAINST FACTIONALISM
How can we argue for a multi-class United Front, if we can’t create a working class united front?
ZUMA’S REGIME MUST GO
Ramaphosa instead of Zuma? Does it make a difference? Clearly, the crisis in South Africa runs much deeper than Zuma.
‘How do we organise our movements?’: First reply to Ngwane’s opening
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...
Response from Martin Legassick to Peter Waterman
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....
Martin Legassick responds to Peter Waterman – Again
Dear Peter, It is a pity that you engage in caricature rather than addressing seriously what I had to say. "I am also disappointed that you (whichever of the above persons you may be) should reach for the stock-in-trade of M-L critics - The Revolution Betrayed! Or, to...
U.S. labor in the crisis: Resistance or retreat?
THE ELECTION of Barack Obama last November seemed to promise a new era for organized labor. With Obama in the White House and a solid Democratic majority in Congress, it appeared that unions would finally be able to get action on their main legislative agenda—passage...