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SADTU accepts classroom assistants idea

The teachers’ union and Khayelitsha Education Forum say they are not opposed to the introduction of classroom assistants that would facilitate lesson plans for teachers who are working from home due to covid-19 vulnerability.

Fear as Covid-19 plagues learning and teaching

The chilling deaths of three teachers from different schools in Khayelitsha due to the coronavirus and the general unsanitised schooling environment contributed to a number of protests by community members and parents beginning on the 1^st of June across the Western Cape.

SOUTH AFRICA

Eastern Cape healthcare has collapsed: ‘Sick people are fighting each other’

“Families have no idea what their loved ones are really going through. There is not a single healthcare worker who will ever be the same after this thing. We are emotionally broken.”
SUZANNE VENTER | CITY PRESS

Austerity to trigger worst depression in a century

Government’s plans to pull the economy out of crisis will worsen our abysmal employment figures and plunge us into crippling levels of debt.
DUMA GQUBULE | NEW FRAME

Naspers CEO bags R276-million in annual remuneration

Bob van Dijk, CEO of Naspers and its European-listed spin-off Prosus, received remuneration of US$15.98-million,
DUNCAN MACLEOD | TECH CENTRAL

Academic freedom is sacrosanct. But so is ethical responsibility

Academic freedom cannot be a defence for bad science. This, especially where the “findings” are driven by bigotry and subterfuge rather than science. Defenses of Nicoli Nattrass’s race speculations on the grounds of her academic freedom cannot overlook the racist quality of her work.

JIMI ADESINA | THE CONVERSATION

Let’s slay some academic freedom myths

dubious work The right to free speech in general and academic freedom more specifically does not entail immunity from a charge of racism or sexism or bigotry or prejudice.
EUSEBIUS MCKEISER | M&G

The trouble with Mogoeng’s stance on Israel, and why SA must back Palestine

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has been said to be ‘implicitly critical’ of those in SA who condemn Israel over its policies towards Palestinians.
LIAM MINNE | TIMESLIVE

INTERNATIONAL

The Kurds Unbowed

In response to the Turkish invasions, hundreds of thousands of women from different communities in Northern Syria have taken to the streets. On the International Day against Violence against Women, all the women’s organizations in Northern Syria organized large rallies across the region with the slogan ‘Occupation is Violence’.
DILAR DIRIK | NEW INTERNATIONALIST

Ten Point Agenda For The Global South

In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a New International Economic Order (NIEO). The resolution laid out a clear plan for the structural transformation of the world system, but neoliberalism won out. We are certainly in need of a NIEO.
VIJAY PRASHAD | TRICONTINENTAL INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

It’s Not Just Meat: All Farm and Food Workers Are in Peril

With the pandemic rolling on unchecked, the fragility of the entire U.S. food system and the vulnerability of its workforce is coming into stark relief. COVID-19 outbreaks are now reaching far beyond the meatpacking industry.
STAN COX | COUNTERPUNCH

Capitalism/The cause of COVID-19 deaths

The impact of COVID-19 in capitalist countries is more than 20 to 50 times worse than in socialist countries or in countries with high levels of social mobilization. The longer and wider this virus spreads, the clearer this political difference becomes.
SARAH FLOUNDERS | WORKERS WORLD

ISRAEL / PALESTINE

Palestinian Civil Society Reiterates Call for Immediate Targeted Sanctions to Stop Israel’s Annexation and Apartheid

On 1 July, Israel’s extremist government decided to keep everyone in the dark about if and how it will make use of the “golden opportunity” offered by the Trump administration to embark on de jure annexation of large swathes of the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
AL-HAQ

How Israel is using the coronavirus emergency to annex the West Bank

The formation of the Gantz-Netanyahu coalition government has nothing to do with the pandemic, it is purely a political moveto form an “emergency” coalition government

FAREED TAAMALLAH | MIDDLE EAST EYE

Belgium Urges Sanctions against Israel if it Annexes West Bank

The Belgian parliament urged the government to call on the European Union to impose sanctions against Israel if it proceeds with its annexation plan.
THE PALESTINE CHRONICLE

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Coronavirus opens door to company surveillance of workers

Employers are rushing to use digital tracking technology to reduce virus transmission in the workplace. But privacy experts worry that businesses will start using their newfound surveillance capabilities for purposes far beyond public health.
MOHANA RAVINDRANATH | POLITICO

HISTORY | THEORY | POLEMIC

How Nigeria’s Left Helped Shape the Country’s History

Nigeria has a powerful tradition of socialist theory and practice that deserves to be better understood by the international left. That tradition has helped shape the best features of Nigeria’s contemporary political scene.
ADAM MAYER | JACOBIN

Culture and Revolution: Trotsky’s Debates on the Transition to Socialism

During the 1920s, when the Russian Revolution was struggling with new problems — international isolation, the introduction of the NEP, and the open political struggles within the party after Lenin’s death — Trotsky intervened through various writings on the cultural problems of the transition.
ARIANE DIAZ | LEFT VOICE

Suicidal Empire

Ever since the US government turned its economy to the control of a “federal reserve” (which is not federal or government but private bankers), it had forfeited the control of its economy to what Eisenhauer warned about: “a military-industrial complex”.
MAZIM QUMSIYEH | POPULAR RESISTANCE

RACIAL JUSTICE

Confronting Prejudice Isn’t Enough. We Must Eradicate the White Racial Frame

It is the deadly longevity of anti-Black racism that we must grasp in order to understand the deeply painful anti-Black racist experiences that African Americans continue to endure in the 21st-century U.S., and the massive multiracial protests that have ensued.
GEORGE YANCY | TRUTHOUT

A Call for Radical Humanism: the Left Needs to Return to Class Analyses of Power

the minute we individualize what are structural problems of police violence and focus upon rooting out “wrong thought”, we necessarily default to witch hunts of individuals through McCarthyesque callouts instead of understanding racism as a byproduct of structural inequalities.
JULIAN VIGO | COUNTERPUNCH

Then as Farce: the Commodification of Black Lives Matter

White liberals are participating in the erasure of their own guilt and complicity. They are offering a comfortable alternative to the destruction of systemic racism, an alternative which posits that the system can still exist in the same form if we just be a bit kinder, a bit nicer, a bit more inclusive, a bit more ‘woke’.
RUTH FOWLER | COUNTERPUNCH

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