Labor and Unions

Rival trade union federations Cosatu and Saftu united to combat the cost of living crisis. A shutdown led by trade unions in South Africa was major success on Wednesday. It showed that after [...]

By Leonard Gentle “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto“, “I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.” Terence (ex-African Slave turned Roman playwright [...]

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 [...]

Since coming into power in a 2017 military coup and a disputed 2018 election, Mnangagwa has sustained the authoritarian state and violent repression overseen for thirty seven years by his [...]

On Saturday 25th July Keep Left together with Spar Angelo labour desk, Coronavirus campaign had a demonstration at Nigel Super-Spar. The demonstration was held on the backdrop of encouraging the [...]

A call to action to protect our people Keep Left is revolutionary socialist group. We are pleading with our trade union federations and respective affiliates to step up and meet the acute [...]

One thing that has been conclusively proved by the Covid pandemic is just who the ‘essential’ workers are. This May Day, John Molyneux asks if workers could ever go one futher – could they run [...]

Workers, cleaners and security, remained undeterred by the blistering hot sun on Friday afternoon 18 October during a strike outside the University of Johannesburg. Walking towards the [...]

The #BlackLivesMatter movement in 2015 was historic – raising global awareness on the systematic repressions of blacks by the US police. One of the originators of the movement, Opal Tometi, [...]

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 [...]