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Trade wars & steps in the right direction
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.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
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 […]
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
‘Fallism 2016’ – when SA students challenged the status quo
November 11, 2018
Everything Must Fall, the hard-hitting, thought provoking documentary film that provides perhaps the best insight possible into the tumultuous events that disrupted South African university campuses in 2016 will feature in the Netherlandsat the world’s largest documentary film festival from November 15 to 25. It will be part of a programme section entitled Frontline at […]
Posted in: Commentary
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.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
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.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
A ‘Buy SA’ job creation myth
October 19, 2018
Once again it seems that price conscious and increasingly hard pressed consumers are blamed for the lack of job creation because they put price before calls to patriotism,
Posted in: Uncategorized
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.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Terry Bell Writes 
November 18, 2018
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