COSATU Congress voted to dump the ANC
On September 26–29, 2022, COSATU convened its 14th National Congress. This congress happened during a period in which the working class was facing multiple attacks from the ANC Government and the [...]
Covid 19 increases attacks on workers
Since the start of the Covid 19 in South Africa in March 2020, politicians and capitalists peddled the messages of “we’re all in this together”. At the same time, they praised workers [...]
Blame Capitalism for the causes and spread of Covid-19
Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world, killing people, hospitalizing countless others and spreading fear. Covid-19 has killed more than 40 000 across the world and has possibly infected [...]
The Myths of Mboweni Economic Plan
The National Treasury under Tito Mboweni (finance minister) recently released the 77-pages openly neo-liberalism document, with the title, Economic transformation, inclusive growth and [...]
Is a machine after your job?
The automation in the workplace has always made the working class people to be fearful of losing their jobs. In fact, anxiety about the effects of capitalist technology on labor is as old as [...]
Unemployment is rocketing
by Lawrence Ntuli and Ashley Fataar The South African economy, as it slowed down, shed jobs and thereby increased unemployment amongst the youth. According to the stats SA, 26 percent of people [...]
The Fight for a National Minimum wage
The implementation of neoliberal policies such as GEAR and the NDP has always been accompanied by an increase in a number of precarious workers (low paid workers). The recent statistics [...]
Countering Xenophobic Ideas
Xenophobia, the chasing of foreigner spaza- shop owners out of the township is gaining momentum. The foreigners shop owners are being depicted as destroyer of local business. A new common sense [...]
