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Forward to a Cold War future?
In the face of the ongoing global economic crisis, with massive unemployment and a wage and welfare gap continuing to grow, the remnants of communist parties around the world see a chance of again becoming major, even leading, political forces. And the prime vehicle toward this goal is the trade union movement.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Davos: dodging the cause of crisis
January 23, 2016
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, ended this week. And it failed to deal with the main theme it belatedly claimed to be this year’s focus: the "Fourth Industrial Revolution". This perhaps proves the aphorism: “The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.”
Posted in: Commentary
Behind South Africa’s racist frenzy
January 13, 2016
A bitterly fought election campaign is already underway in South Africa, even before the announced date of the 2016 local government poll. And racism, land and traditional law have become the major areas of contention.
Posted in: Commentary
The right to expropriate property
January 11, 2016
The redistribution and expropriation of South African property — land being the prime example — has become a major electoral issue. And the country's much lauded constitution allows for expropriation of property in the public interest and only demands that justice applies.
Posted in: Commentary
If We Must Die
December 21, 2015
Book review: If We Must Die by Stanley Manong. This is a major myth buster; a massively detailed autobiography that provides one of the finest insights to date of life in the ANC’s exiled uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) army in the crucial years following the 1976 student uprisings in South Africa.
Posted in: Book Reviews
Spin, myths and The Market
December 19, 2015
The economic crunch experienced in South Africa last week provided a clear insight into the workings of the system and the limits, within a parliamentary democracy, of “people’s power”.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Where political expediency trumps education
December 13, 2015
How better for a government facing severe criticism for it performance on the education front than to burnish its image by providing an illusion of improved school performance?
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Terry Bell Writes 
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