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Stories, facts & the minimum wage
There is incrfeasing cynicism and anger about the long-delayed introduction of some minimum pay agreements. This is coupled with evidence that the way the government's key Expanded Public Works Programme has been applied has had a damaging, particularly on municipal workers and firefighters.
Trade wars & steps in the right direction
November 18, 2018
It seems essential to take steps to move away from the clearly dangerous and damaging economic dogma of neo-liberalism. Far from being either free or fair, it is, in fact, an anarchic system that creates the "race to the bottom" that so harms the majority to the benefit of a tiny minority while being destructive, overall.
Lying our way to catastrophe
November 16, 2018
The global economy that affects us all is based on lies; on the distortion and misrepresentation of the views of usually much lauded economists. It seems crucial to drive this point home as we continue to be told that greater productivity and the up-skilling and re-skilling of workers will vanquish poverty and unemployment. In a […]
Our common economic ailment
November 4, 2018
The SA economy,worked out by corruption, seems to be well and truly up the creek and with only a very fragile investment paddle to hand.
A classic case of economic ill health
November 3, 2018
The gap between the 16% of South Africans who have private health insurance and the 84% who rely on the crumbling public health system, has grown by another R20 billion. Small wonder that there is increasing anger being expresed.
Evidence of a real alternative
October 6, 2018
It is estimated that automation could soon cost some 4.5 million more South Africans their jobs. “Soon” could mean 2020 or very shorty after. And the number of jobless could be very much higher if, as seems likely, the global economic crisis becomes more severe.
Labour needs a new revolution
August 27, 2018
Capitalism is not dying, although the system is obviously gravely ill. But it is resilient and may survive, but only at the the cost of the suffering and sacrifice of billions of working people who are likely to resist fiercely. New thinking is clearly called for.
Terry Bell Writes 
November 30, 2018
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