About ILRIG
The International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) is a support organisation dedicated to research, education, training, the production of popular materials, and the provision of reflective spaces for working class movements in South and Southern Africa.
ILRIG and COVID-19
Find out more about our approach to the COVID-19 pandemic and how our work has changed in relation to lockdown.
Recent News
Vaccine nationalism and profiteering: How capitalism has captured a pandemic
By Dale T. McKinley 14 February 2021 Published in the Daily Maverick and Green Left Weekly. Over the last 2½ years, those of us living on the...
Black-led, antiracist unionism: Ben Fletcher and the IWW
By Peter Cole 8 February 2021 First published in Global Labour Column. Benjamin Harrison Fletcher ranks among the greatest African Americans of...
Broken world, broken people – we need a path to a better future
By Shawn Hattingh 29 January 2021 First published in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. We are living in a world that for most...
Events
Webinar: Housing Struggles – What is their significance for movement building in the time of pandemic?
Join us for an ILRIG webinar on housing struggles and their significance for movement building in the COVID-19 pandemic. DATE: Thursday 25 March...
Webinar: COVID-19 Vaccines – The new apartheid?
THIS EVENT HAS PASSED. Watch the event recording below and here. View Dr Lydia Cairncross' slides here. View Dr Benjamin Kagina's slideshow here....
Booklet Launch: Mapping the World of Casualised Work and Struggle in South Africa
THIS EVENT HAS PASSED. Watch the event recording here. Read Sydney Moshoaliba's input here. Join us for a virtual launch of ILRIG's new booklet...