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Energy Transition Mythbusters: Unpacking the 6 policy myths that threaten decarbonisation

The Transnational Institute in collaboration with the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy has published a report aimed at challenging six harmful but influential energy transition myths used to persuade us that the private sector, free markets, cheaper prices and decentralisation

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Financing Public Energy Pathways for Energy Transition and Climate Protection

A realistic but profound vision for financing a public pathway to an energy transition capable of addressing energy poverty and climate protection needs to be developed. What is clear and well elaborated in the framing document, is that a neoliberal

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Report: Global South School On Combating Corporate Profit Shifting and Wage Evasion

Illicit financial flows and base erosion profit shifting (IFFs and BEPS) have been called the ‘Achilles’ Heel’ of transnational corporations, because they present a vulnerability through which the architecture of corporate impunity can be tackled. Through both the interrogation of the

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Namibian Journal of Social Justice – Vol 2, November 2022

Since 2019, AMCU has been embroiled in a legal battle with Samancor Chrome, the second-largest chrome company in the world. In this case, a whistleblower has alleged that certain directors shifted billions of Rand from the company into overseas tax

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Preview of the 2022 Mini-Budget: AIDC calls on the government to abandon austerity!

On Wednesday,  26th of October 2022, Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana will be tabling the 2022 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in Parliament. As the Alternative Information and Development Centre, we continue to challenge the government’s austerity agenda which has

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Right to Say No pamphlet

The National Right to Say No campaign is excited to share a short information pamphlet that speaks to what the Right to Say No campaign is, the demands being made by communities affected by extractivism and who can say no.

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Fighting Mass Unemployment

RIGHT2WORK – GOVERNMENT MUST EMPLOY EVERYONE WILLING AND ABLE TO WORK According to the expanded definition of unemployment released in the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey by Statistics SA, 12.48 million people are now unemployed. This is a staggering figure,

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LOSING OUT ON THE LION’S SHARE

A primer on illicit financial flows, tax and wage evasion in South Africa South Africa is a nation approaching breaking point. Despite vast mineral wealth, modern infrastructure, and other economic advantages, the country faces a crisis of economic injustice. The

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