“Thirty-year-old Duaa Tariq was among the grassroots activists who helped organize peaceful mass protests in 2019 largely in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, that brought down the decade’s long dictatorship of former leader Omar al-Bashir — only to see a 2021 military…”
Sudan’s War Passed 6 Months, With Much of the World Consumed by Other Conflicts Read Post »
“The government’s decision to postpone the June exams to December, and the silence about when the December exam is going to be held, is an admission that given the Covid-19 conditions it will be impossible for public schools to recover the time lost in 2020.”
Deepening class inequalities: Minister Motshekga’s hidden agenda to open public schools! Read Post »
“Firstly, what is important to note in this debate is that South Africa represents the first country in which “science” was harnessed to firstly, support the lockdown, and immediately thereafter, to “eradicate the lockdown completely”. It is the first country “science”…
Scientists Against Science: The campaign to open “the economy” in the time of COVID-19 Read Post »
COVID-19 is raging throughout the entire globe, and all politicians of the bourgeois establishment…
Download PDF After a nurse tested positive for COVID-19, Duduza clinic on the East Rand in Gauteng was closed on 3 April. In KwaZulu Natal (KZN), following the death of three patients due to COVID-19, the Trauma Unit at Netcare St. Augustine’s…
Alarm bells ring as healthcare facilities are closed due to COVID-19 Read Post »
On 30 March about 76 economists and 29 other academics and experts in various fields of study published an Open Letter to President Ramaphosa on the COVID-19 crisis (hereafter ‘Open Letter’). The Open Letter (see here) had been in circulation in social…
The President, the Finance Minister, and the Economists Read Post »
This article was completed before President Ramaphosa announced the national lock-down on 23 March. The measures he announced, and the direction of these measures, continued his policy of private sector leadership of the fight…
Government protects private hospital profits as COVID-19 rages Read Post »
“In the long history of ruling class responses to disasters, pandemics and catastrophes, nothing tells us more about the general approach of these classes than the way they allocate resources to these catastrophes…”
Worshipping the markets while South Africa burns Read Post »
The working class and the struggle against the corona virus The Coronavirus named COVID-19, which today (15 March), has infected at least 160 000 people worldwide and killed thousands has now landed…
In the eye of the storm Read Post »
