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Vaccine nationalism and profiteering: How capitalism has captured a pandemic

Vaccine nationalism and profiteering: How capitalism has captured a pandemic

by leila | Apr 6, 2021 | Articles by ILRIG, ILRIG and COVID-19, Lockdown, News & Media, Solidarity

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 southern tip of the African continent have had front-row seats to the often absurd and mostly sordid theatre played out...
Black-led, antiracist unionism: Ben Fletcher and the IWW

Black-led, antiracist unionism: Ben Fletcher and the IWW

by leila | Apr 6, 2021 | News & Media, Other

By Peter Cole 8 February 2021    First published in Global Labour Column.   Benjamin Harrison Fletcher ranks among the greatest African Americans of his generation and the top echelon of Black unionists and radicals in all of US history. In his time, the early 20th...
Broken world, broken people – we need a path to a better future

Broken world, broken people – we need a path to a better future

by leila | Apr 6, 2021 | Articles by ILRIG, ILRIG and COVID-19, Lockdown, News & Media, Solidarity

By Shawn Hattingh  29 January 2021   First published in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal.   We are living in a world that for most people is broken and that has broken most people. It is not a god given world, but one that has been constructed by those...
“The Rank and File Strategy”: A Syndicalist View

“The Rank and File Strategy”: A Syndicalist View

by leila | Apr 6, 2021 | News & Media, Other

By Tom Wetzel 31 December 2020   First published in Ideas & Action.   Kim Moody’s writings on “the Rank and File Strategy” have gained a broad hearing within a variety of socialist groups, such as Democratic Socialists of America and smaller socialist groupings....
The fight for housing in South Africa needs to also be a fight for freedom

The fight for housing in South Africa needs to also be a fight for freedom

by leila | Apr 6, 2021 | Articles by ILRIG, News & Media

By Shawn Hattingh 26 November 2020   First published on Medya News.   The sight of people marching and undertaking protests to occupy land has become common under the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa.   In fact, since the beginning of COVID-19, a new wave of...
South Africa’s new lockdown regulations explicitly ban all ‘political gatherings’

South Africa’s new lockdown regulations explicitly ban all ‘political gatherings’

by leila | Apr 6, 2021 | Articles by ILRIG, ILRIG and COVID-19, Lockdown, News & Media, Solidarity

By Dale T. McKinley 19 January 2021   First published in the Daily Maverick.   In the general fog that has enveloped our pandemically framed world, it is understandable that we might not notice some things that otherwise would have previously caught our immediate...
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