This narrative of ‘illegal miners’ when the whole mining industry is a sanctioned illegal racial capitalist operation predicated on the subjugation of Black people & the literal whitewashing of mining billionaires is straight up racism and colonial apologia

Stilfontein update: A body of a male has been retrieved by community rescue volunteers and it is difficult to identify at the moment as the North West Emergency Medical Services is still examining the body. A letter attached to the bag states that the resurfacing of the bodies be done quickly as the bodies are causing a bad smell. piped.video/FJvHqRuc9qA?si=9443… #MACUAWAMUA #StilfonteinMine #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

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Documents obtained by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay Sama, an American outsourcing firm, $12.50 an hour per Kenyan worker - far higher than the $2 an hour workers say they got. Sama says it pays a fair wage for the region.

Women in 1970s Oman resisted both colonial oppression and violent patriarchy in pursuit of their freedom. On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we honor those women who have fought—and still fight—for equality and liberation worldwide.

Organizing society around the profit motive is an inherently problematic idea.

The rise of artisanal miners is, among other factors, a result of a system that has opted to exclude marginalised communities while protecting the interests of the elites and mining corporations. Government officials are never direct nor do they even move an inch to hold mining companies accountable for gross human rights violations. Our national administrator, Sabelo Mnguni, will be on @channelafrica1 tomorrow at 09h15 to discuss the complacence of our government in excluding marginalised communities from benefiting from minerals mined in their lands WITHOUT their CONSENT. He will also unpack the unrealised economic value that artisanal mining bring to marginalised people.

We call on government to urgently provide a safe passage for miners and to desist from arresting people who merely want to feed their families. We call on the minister to urgently move the legalization of artisinal miners forward. Meet us outside DMPR TOMORROW AS WE MARCH.

When my husband was on the SGB of a public school we fought to have a permanently employed Zulu teacher for our children. We won that battle. Unfortunately DBE had no funds to pay the teachers salary and so as a school we fundraised to pay her salary. Pass Bela and allocate funds

RT @SpiritofLenin: “You vote once in four years, and that’s your political responsibility? That’s the height of bourgeois propaganda, makin…

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

This guy is young. Probably not even 30, yet here he is carrying one of the many apartheid symbols. He is absolutely racist. Then you say it’s been 30 years of democracy to a black child and they must move on. We still feel the effects socially, economically, politically

The reason why homeless people were removed from the Castle, it suddenly makes sense.

Underpayment is literally making people feel like they are losing their minds

SA Broadcasters i hope am not wrong. We just had Botswana and Mozambique elections. Never seen prime coverage like USA coming elections! Please tell me am wrong?

begging more leftists to learn basic conflict resolution and social skills. if you really want to mobilize large groups of people, you need to learn how to work with people. political theory is important but so is how you treat people.

It's quite interesting that state capture is framed as purely acts of illegality (typically by black civil servants) and not as it was initially defined - regulatory capture by businesses.

These politicians talk a good game about solving issues but in reality they’re not interested in the causes of anything so they cannot. It’s as simple as that. No they will not make housing “affordable” how can they without addressing the very existence of landlords.

Completely agree. 🤞🏾