Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.
ELECTIONS 2024: IT’S TIME FOR THE LEFT TO TALK
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Working Class Summit
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.
The Alliance is dead – long live the alliance
ONE OF THE KEY RESOLUTIONS OF Numsa’s 2013 special congress was to bring into existence a United Front to act as a popular, working class-based alternative to the ANC. By 2016 it had run its course. In 2018, following a successful one-day strike, Saftu initiated the...
The South African Left needs to go back to its roots
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...