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Coalition governments – a labour perspective
Coalition governments have long existed throughout the world. Some countries, particularly those in the Global North, have managed to overcome many of the initial challenges presented by the various political formations that needed to work together on often...
ANC AND 2024 ELECTIONS: A NIGHTMARE OF COALITIONS, SPLITS AND NEOLIBERAL CRISIS
THE AFRICAN NATIONAL Congress is certainly fighting its most difficult election since the dawn of democracy in 1994. This may sound like a cliché that gets echoed every election, but now it’s true. The unabated decline of the electoral support of the ANC has been...
Elections: WAY FORWARD FOR THE LEFT
WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the profound effect this election is going to have on shaping the medium-term political landscape in the country. That means that it’s going to have a profound effect on how to go about trying to construct a Left party. And there are major...
EDITORIAL: 2024: WAKE UP CALL FOR THE LEFT
THE COMING 2024 NATIONAL AND provincial elections are the most significant since the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once again there is no credible left-wing or anti-capitalist force contesting. By all accounts, the ANC is not likely to win an outright majority, and new...
2024: Wake Up Call For The Left!
Inevitably, the feature of this issue focuses on the election – but with a difference. We are more interested in placing the election in the broader context of building the Left and popular organisations than in pondering the details of which party will get how many...
Genocide in Gaza funded by the diamond industry
The international trade in diamonds, worth $87 billion in 2021, conceals the fact that the industry is a significant source of funding for the genocidal apartheid regime in Israel. Israel’s genocide in Gaza, now in its sixth month, has killed at least 32,000 people,...
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