Economic Policy from Below: an Anarchist Critique of COSATU’s “Radical Reform” Project - Warren McGregor

Centred on the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)...unions developed an ideological and strategic orientation described by scholars...as “radical reform” or “structural reform.” The thinking of the main unions in South Africa remains, to this day, profoundly shaped by the “radical reform” (RR) model.

[This piece seeks to] examine the RR model, which was an at...tempt to build on the many key progressive gains won by workers and their organisations through struggle in the 1980s, and push through to a deeper transformation in the 1990s. This input defines the key components of RR, and then examines why this innovative response to the parliamentary transition and to capitalist globalisation was not successful. This requires looking at issues of neoliberal capitalist and state domination, the impact of RR on the unions, and the effects of the institutionalisation of trade union activity and dispute processes that have taken place. It raises deeper questions about union politics.

Solidarity with the Struggle of the Mapuche People

International anarchist statement

We stand in solidarity with the struggle of the Mapuche people who are currently experiencing another episode of persecution and repression by the racist and colonial State of Chile...aided by far-right groups and militias....
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