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Covid-19 and the lockdown has exacerbated poverty and inequalities in the rural areas of South Africa.
LILITA GCWABE
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Salary hikes would not be ‘just and equitable’, and could imperil social grants and health-care funding, the Labour Court in effect said as it threw out an application by unions to force the government to pay their 2020 wage increases.
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The Labour Appeal Court has ruled that the last leg of the 2018 wage agreement, which proposes inflation-busting salary increases for 1.2 million public servants, is unlawful and contradicts the Constitution.
RAY MAHLAKA | DAILY MAVERICK |
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Frustrating as this may sound, it is the duty of the progressive forces to find common ground with all workers, including rank-and-file whites in Fedusa and those in Cosatu whose leaders have been captured to defend the status quo.
ZWELINZIMA VAVI | DAILY MAVERICK |
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The intersection of the second wave of Covid-19 infections with the festive season poses real risks for society – risks that the government seems unable or unwilling to address.
NEW FRAME
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The judge president argued that he has freedom of speech to say what he did about the devil and vaccines. But he above all people knows this right doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
ROB ROSE | BUSINESS LIVE
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We've all heard the same things about Venezuela coming from every corporate news outlet. Venezuela's a dictatorship and Maduro is a dangerous tyrant further consolidating power though fraudulent elections. Weirdly enough, not many dictatorships have elections, certainly not over 20 in the last 20 years like Venezuela has.
ABBY MARTIN | EMPIRE FILES
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Chris Hedges talks to journalist Diana Johnstone about the betrayal of the left with its historical role as the champion of social justice and peace now replaced with the boutique activism of identity politics, political correctness and what has become known as humanitarian intervention.
RT
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The attempts of groups controlling power in Colombia to wipe out social organisation and mobilisation, quell protests, and suppress the right to organise and proclaim the validity of the public education system has led to thousands of casualties.
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The alliance led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has won more seats in local government bodies than the opposition groups combined.
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Vineyards in Namibia are well watered, while people struggle for water. Two kilometres from the grape farms, farmworkers live in an unnamed settlement in reed and zinc structures and have endured decades without potable water and other basic services like electricity and sanitation facilities.
SONJA SMITH | DAILY MAVERICK |
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Labour struggles have been a central issue in 2020 as retrenchments and strikes surged amid Covid-19 infections and deaths. Three unions representing frontline workers have called for an urgent intervention by employers.
SIBONGILE PORTIA JONAS | M&G |
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A primer on vaccines in general but COVID in particular – and how the new COVID vaccines work, what makes them revolutionary – and what obstacles -- structural, political and scientific – need to be understood – and possibly pushed out of the way.
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Free speech, LBGT+ rights and freedoms to peacefully assemble have deteriorated during the pandemic. According to Civicus Monitor, 87% of the global population were living in nations deemed “closed”, “repressed” or “obstructed”.
KATE HODAL | THE GUARDIAN |
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Covid-19 has provided cover for a pandemic of propaganda. Today, the war drums have new and highly enthusiastic beaters in Britain, America and the “West”.
JOHN PILGER | CONSORTIUM NEWS |
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Academics from 17 Latin American countries have signed a public declaration for the boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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On December 8, thirty-three years ago, the First Palestinian Intifada (uprising) broke out, and there was nothing ordinary about this historic event.
RAMZY BAROUD | COUNTERPUNCH |
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Pakistanis need to stop believing that Dalits live only in India. There are about 40 castes, 32 of which were listed as scheduled castes under the November 1957 Presidential ordinance of Pakistan.
SHAISTA ABDUL AZIZ PATEL | AL JAZEERA |
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The publication of Isabel Wilkerson’s widely acclaimed book returns to caste to explain U.S. racial hierarchy at a moment when wealth polarization, racial strife, and white supremacist revanchism are again on the rise.
CHARISSE BURDEN=STELLEY | BOSTON REVIEW |
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The ascendancy of neoliberal forces to the executive branch of the U.S. state represents a development that potentially will be even a more dangerous period of aggression from the U.S. white supremacist settler state and its white supremacist colonial European allies.
AJAMU BARAKA | BLACK AGENDA REPORT |
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The prices as well as the quantities of the agricultural produce in a free market would be far from socially optimal and are likely to be socially disastrous.
PRABHAT PATNAIK | PEOPLES' DISPATCH
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The 22-member climate change commission is charged with mapping a transition to a low-carbon, green economy.
LAMEEZ OMARJEE | NEWS24 |
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An explosion at the Engen refinery in the South Durban Basin area was, say residents, ‘no surprise’, given the company’s alleged history of ‘cutting costs’ on maintenance and the government’s carelessness in enforcing regulations.
DESIREE ERASMUS | DAILY MAVERICK |
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Drop in emissions this year is a ‘tiny blip’ in buildup of greenhouse gases, UN agency says
DAMIAN CARRINGTON | THE GUARDIAN |
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The basis of all human life is now officially on the market. Call it the No Future futures index. Bloomberg reported on Sunday that California water futures are now officially on the Wall Street markets.
NICK MARTIN | THE NEW REPUBLIC |
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A major Apple iPhone supplier in India is under investigation after a riot broke out inside its factory. The riot was reportedly caused by workers who are upset about not getting paid.
RT AMERICA
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Hackers have successfully been able to access the front facing cameras on Google and Samsung phones without permission from the user and regardless of whether or not the phone was unlocked
ALANNA KETLER | COLLECTIVE EVOLUTION
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The city’s first worker-owned ridesharing app gets ready to take on the big boys.
HAMILTON NOLAN | IN THESE TIMES |
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Looking ack at the literary achievement of John Le Carré, who died at the weekend.
JOHN REES | COUNTERFIRE |
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Casual listeners think of him as a gentle giant of jazz, but critics and African Americans often saw him as a sell out or ‘Uncle Tom’. A new book aims to show how radical ‘Pops’ really was.
ED PRIDEAUX | THE GUARDIAN |
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250 years after his birth, Beethoven’s music still has an exhilarating, subversive power. His revolution of artistic form was intimately linked to his sympathy for the political revolutions of his time.
SIMON BEHRMAN | JACOBIN |
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Fine motor skills are the building blocks our brains need to connect and make sense of the world around us. Cursive is a great example of many specializations taking place at once.
JACQUELINE | DEEP ROOTS AT HOME
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