Tag: working class
Innovative thinking is required to address the jobs crisis
Amidst the rising cost of living, interest rate and fuel price hikes, and load shedding, the elephant in the room remains persistently high rates of unemployment. Much fanfare tends to surround any announcement of a small decline in the quarterly unemployment rate as it did at the end of November 2022 when Statistics South Africa revealed that the official unemployment figure had decreased by one percentage point between the second and third quarters of 2022 from 33.9% to 32.9%.
The fundamental reason for belief in socialism
The heart of socialism is the class system. Whether it is Julius Malema or Vladimir Lenin or Fidel Castro or your Professor of Sociology, all socialists believe they belong to a superior class entitled to rule the inferior classes.
A STRUGGLE FOR UNION INDEPENDENCE IN A TIME OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
In 1973 the trade union movement was both racially and regionally divided. It virtually excluded African workers, and in many cases unions were led...