July 12, 2013
The poisonous roots of Marikana go back at least 15 years — and must be confronted if anything is to change.
July 4, 2013
The labour movement has a number of policy alternatives that deserve serious consideration.
July 1, 2013
Modern technology is making the bulk of humanity increasingly redundant. But the same technology could end the obscene waste of human potential.
June 21, 2013
E-tolling, excrement and expanded public works. There three "Es" are likely to be major campaigning features as South Africa heads towards the 2014 election.
June 14, 2013
The “agrarian transformation”, announced on June 12 by two major SA trade unions extended well beyond farm lands and remote rural areas. It can be summarised by the famous 1992 quote by US President Bill Clinton: “(It’s) the economy, stupid.”
June 6, 2013
The annual wage bargaining season — erroneously labelled the “strike season” — is upon us. But this does not mean a pending strike wave: most negotiations — as happens every year — will be concluded without any industrial disruption.
June 2, 2013
The abuse, both of Judaism and the Holocaust, by more extreme adherents of the fundamentally racist political philosophy of Zionism, continues. And the mainstream media continues blindly to use terminology that supports this particular ideological view.
Why Amcu baulks
July 14, 2013
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Amcu negotiators are not being pig-headed in not signing peace deals. They have a rank and file to answer to.