The Left must reinvent itself, reorganise and unify against all forms of bourgeois domination.
Bangladesh: from despot to neoliberal leader
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The private sector continues to stifle democracy
Energy sector trade unions have expressed profound worries about what the Just Energy Transition Partnership will mean for workers.
Gen Z will lead the people’s revolution in Kenya
*This article was first published on The Elephant. Something truly remarkable happened in Nairobi on 18 June. For the first time since Kenya’s independence, a people-driven movement ignited largely by Gen Z (those born after 1997, also known as the fully “digitally...
#FeesMustFall in Nigeria
Since the inauguration of President Bola Tinubu, a wave of fee hikes has swept through public universities and secondary schools in Nigeria. Across numerous campuses, students have risen in response to these policies, registering their dissent through campaigns,...
BRICS TRADE UNION FORUM: LABOUR SHOULD NOT BE SPOKESPERSONS OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS
IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2023, THE MAIN trade union federations from BRICS countries converged in Durban for their annual trade union forum (BRICS TUF). The theme was “Cooperation for Fair and Inclusive Development for all Peoples of the World…” Their gathering was...
The fake “7.5%” public servants wage increase and the game of smoke and mirrors
AS THE AUSTERITY trajectory of the Treasury continues downward, tricks and deception have become the order of the day. All to deceive public sector workers about the real amount of their pay “increase”. Nehawu, Popcru, Denosa, Sapu and others went on strike for one...
JUST PROFIT NOT JUST TRANSITION
IN THE SPACE OF A YEAR AND A HALF, South Africa has agreed to borrow billions of rand in foreign currency. This is for a programme of economic restructuring on the basis of a Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP). Unions and civil society have been...
WATER FOR PROFIT NOT USE: THE CASE OF NELSON MANDELA BAY
WATER IN SOUTH AFRICA IS A story of failing infrastructure and dry taps. Only one-third of South Africa’s water infrastructure is operational. The government’s inability to maintain existing infrastructure, as a result of austerity policies and political malfeasance,...
CRISIS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT LIES IN COST RECOVERY FINANCING
NOT SO LONG AGO, LOCAL government was blamed for the failures of the “new” democratic order in South Africa. Once known as the hands and feet of government, it was the target of protest by working-class communities frustrated by poor service delivery and the...