A Green New Deal for South African workers?
COSATU, South Africa’s largest trade union federation, has a plan to simultaneously tackle climate change and unemployment.
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Carilee Osborne
Carilee Osborne is a researcher at the Institute for African Alternatives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Ben Turok’s commitment to liberation, non-racialism and equality
Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.
Towards a working-class environmentalism for South Africa
It’s going take a fully democratic anti-capitalist movement to fight climate change. The case of South Africa shows how long we have to go.
Democracy and the left in post-apartheid South Africa
A veteran African National Congress stalwart and member of parliament speaks to Africa Is a Country about the party, South Africa’s Parliament and the dearth of left politics in South Africa.