EndSARS, workers’ power, and war
The working class that organized #OccupyNigeria should collaborate with #EndSARS. If these two boiling points burn together to produce the fire next time, a new Nigeria will be possible.
Trade Unions
Unions in crisis
Has the trade union form outlived its usefulness for workers?
Celebrating May Day: Trade unions as schools of democracy
At the heart of the protest movement in Sudan is a trade union. Proving again that democratic influence and change require collective participation and organization.
The African Lion
Labour challenges in Ethiopia's industrialization.
This is what a neoliberal trade union looks like
Zambia's mining unions increasingly focus on profit-generating businesses, at the expense of collective action.
The struggle for a minimum wage in Nigeria
Negotiations for a minimum wage put Nigeria's trade unions at the front of poor people's struggles.
Limping towards irrelevance
How can South Africa's biggest trade union federation, Cosatu, remain relevant in the face of declining membership and a failing formal economy?
On May Day, what is there to celebrate in Africa?
On International Workers’ Day, we provide a sweeping assessment of the strengths, weaknesses and potential of African trade unions.
Is South African trade unionism at a turning point?
Does the gradual increase in the number of strikes indicate that a new wave of offensive strikes has begun? Or is it just a short-lived revival among a depressing long wave of defensive strikes?