What Is Austerity?
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CARBON CRISIS OP-ED: Why the fossil-fuel industry is a distraction to understanding the failure of COP27
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 01 Dec 2022 We should not be distracted by holding the fossil-fuel industry accountable for the failures of the COPs. Instead, we must understand the incestuous links between politics and business and why world leaders…
Op-Ed | Symptoms of a paranoid dictatorship: Why Numsa has degenerated
Unions should by law be prohibited from owning or having any interest in investment companies. They have wrought havoc in the South African trade union movement.
Dismantle Corporate Power Dictionary
We have compiled a working list of definitions and terminology to equip community activists with language and understanding to challenge extractivism and dismantle corporate power. This dictionary is brought to you by the Alternative Information and Development Centre in partnership…
Taking Back the Just Transition for Climate Protection and Decent Work!
The AIDC, with the support of FES, is inviting you to debate the energy transition in South Africa. This discussion amongst trade unionists, social and environmental justice activists is urgent in light of the crisis of energy and climate policy. There are growing differences…
Statement: More than 11 million South Africans remain jobless!
The Assembly of the Unemployed (AoU) and the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) are not moved by the recently released figures that indicate that the unemployment rate decreased to 32.9% from 33.9% in the second quarter of 2022. According…
INTRODUCING A (UNIVERSAL) BASIC INCOME GRANT IN SOUTH AFRICA
The Basic Income Grant (BIG) has long been a topic of debate in South Africa. The idea was first raised in the 1997 White Paper on Social Welfare. More than 20 years later more than half the population lives on…
