DEBATES & OPINIONS

African Women your Love is from Mother Nature I can smell the clean fresh air of Mother Nature Oh I have never seen such a […]

Every Body Has a Right But Who Is a Criminal? A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems and a criminal produces crime. A criminal produces […]

Who Do I Cry To? Killer minds everywhere Or is it what they call African renaissance? Exactly, Who do I cry to? Surrounded by hypocrites, […]

Untitled I had an awful vision of the future That shook the ground and raised poverty The president just stood and stared Watching my freedom […]

WHO DECIDES ON ADMISSION OF LEARNERS? The Admission Policy for Ordinary Schools says: The admission policy of a public school is determined by the governing […]

Trade unions at the crossroads The 1973 strikes in Durban and the subsequent wave of worker uprisings are regarded as important landmarks in the making […]

Nicole Ulrich reflects on the birth of the modern non- racial trade union movement in the early 1970s, and draws lessons for the social movements of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Lennie Gentle looks at the relationship between trade unions and other sections of the mass movement, at the ideological contestation in the labour movements and the liberation struggle, and the current debates about the role of trade unions.

In this contribution John Appolis argues that there is a need for trade unions and the left in general to open a debate on whether to participate in the present state institutions