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South Africa’s labor movement is in crisis. How can it rebuild? We try to answer that question with Karl Cloete this week on AIAC Talk.
Are South Africa’s unions relevant? Are they still too closely connected to the politics of the country’s ruling party, the African National Congress? [The party (...)
Approaching local elections, beyond its spectacles of defiance and never-ending episodes of controversy, what do the politics of the Economic Freedom Fighters have to offer?
Reading the party’s 2019 election manifesto and watching their online lecture series, one sees a party that offers (...)
As we enter a new decade, South Africans have little cause for cheer between load-shedding, ANC fratricidal strife, the annual slaughter on our roads and bleak economic prospects. The ANC continues to present its cosplay version of unity while tearing itself apart. As the party and its allies (...)
The election of a new government should be a time of celebration. 25 years since the end of Apartheid should be the time of immense celebration. Yet, 25 years since the “dawn of democracy” and South Africans are engulfed by extreme forms of anger, disillusionment and alienation. 22 million adults (...)
South African politics urgently needs an injection of electoral energy from the left, that speaks in a language that resonates with voters, rejects chauvinism and embraces democracy.
After 25 years in power, one would expect that the African National Congress—the party that brought South (...)
Are the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of Julius Malema primed for the greatest gains in South Africa’s May 8th national and provincial elections?
The South African national and provincial elections taking place on 8 May 2019, are set to be the most contentious in the country’s 25 years of (...)
Over a thousand gathered in Johannesburg to attend the Launch Congress of the Party which seeks to build socialism in South Africa.
“Equality, work and land” is the slogan of the new radical political party in South Africa that seeks to revolutionize South African politics and contest elections (...)
To this day, NUMSA has not deviated from its perspective of Marxism, Leninism and its goal of building a socialist South Africa, says Karl Cloete
Karl Cloete, the Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), spoke to Peoples Dispatch about his journey (...)
It is with a profound sense of sadness that we at AIDC have heard the news of the passing of Carl Brecker, the first Chairperson of the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC). We send our condolences to his family, especially his devoted daughters Tania and Dee, their children as (...)
A new federation officially registered under the name South African Federation of Trade Unions
In the latest issue of Amandla!, we focus on the labour movement. We are soon to witness what some have called a “momentous event in the history of the working class in South Africa” – the launch of a (...)
The fast-reviving South African left is urgently coming to grips with the most acute national crises of structure and agency the country has experienced since the historic freeing of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 and the shift of the entire body politic in favor of the African National (...)
In order to understand the crisis in COSATU, we must view it against the backdrop of ‘20 years of democracy’ and the balance sheet of impacts on poor and working people. Because the liberation struggle was waged in the name of the promise of justice, decent work and security, a sober assessment (...)
Just days after the expulsion of the metalworkers’ union (NUMSA) from the national federation COSATU and the affirmation by the leadership of this union of its project of rebuilding an independent trade union movement in a “socialist" perspective, an amazing unsigned document has begun to (...)
DLF Statement on the Sidikiwe Vukani Vote No Campaign
Though the DLF is not standing in the 2014 elections we cannot and will not be silent. We support the vote No Campaign as articulated by Sidikiwe Vukani. This is a step forward in breaking with support for parties that collaborate with or (...)
DEMOCRATIC LEFT FRONT (DLF)
Urgent Appeal for Support and Solidarity
Comrades, its once again the time to dig deep. Things are beginning to change. The ANC’s hegemony is eroding. Corruption, cronyism, the Marikana massacre and an upturn in working class struggle is rapidly changing the (...)
Statement of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) on the outcomes of its 2nd National Conference 27-30 March 2014.
On the eve of the May national elections the Democratic Left Front held its Second Conference since its formation in 2011 at Stay City in Berea, Johannesburg from March 27–30 2014.
140 (...)
PRESS STATEMENT 23 December 2013
DLF SALUTES THE NUMSA SPECIAL NATIONAL CONGRESS TOGETHER, A NEW SOUTH AFRICA IS POSSIBLE
There is a spectre haunting the ruling class and government in South Africa: it is the radical anti-capitalist movement that the National Union of Metalworkers of South (...)
Numsa General Secretary, Comrade Irvin Jim Input: Cosatu Queenstown local Eastern Cape, 2013 Joe Slovo Memorial Lecture, October 20 2013.
“Comrade Joe Slovo, a Communist Revolutionary working in the Terrain of National Oppression”
"It is obvious that the black capitalist class favours (...)
BRIAN ASHLEY IS the editor of the South African journal AMANDLA! He was interviewed for Against the Current by David Finkel and Dianne Feeley. Against the Current: Please tell us about the magazine Amandla! — what’s your orientation and perspective, and what’s your audience in the overall (...)
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