Unions in crisis
Has the trade union form outlived its usefulness for workers?
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Excavating Kazi Mataani
In the second video from our Capitalism In My City project, Dennis Esikuri talks to everyday Nairobians about the current employment opportunities in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Shoprite’s attack on workers’ rights
The Southern Africa retail chain boasts massive profits, but its workers in Namibia are shortchanged.
The lessons of the Indian farmers’ protests
The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.
The hustlers of Nairobi
Why is Nairobi's government terrorizing hawkers and hustlers around the city? An anthropological perspective.
South Africa’s Left needs a new party
Assuming today’s socioeconomic crisis benefits the Left is folly. That will only happen if we have the political vision to make class the fault line of social polarization, and for that we need to face the challenge of constructing a new party.
Death by betrayal
Tanzania’s workers are at the highest risk for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Why are trade unions not taking action?
The rise and fall of a Nigerian labor hero
Adams Oshiomhole was one of the most powerful trade union leaders in Nigeria. His career trajectory represents the wider political subjugation of the national labor movement.
We work like elephants, and eat like ants
The weakening of Nigeria’s oil trade unions has a devastating impact on workers. Now workers are paid by Shell and others to sabotage union strikes and actions.
All that glitters
One corporation's tax tussle with Tanzania holds many lessons for African countries that continue to struggle with the inequitable share of proceeds from their extractive sectors.
Small changes
Cooperatives provide a convenient lens through which to examine the political present and future of Uganda, if not the greater region.
The view from the factory floor
Industrialization was sought as a panacea to ethnic conflicts, resource crisis, and unemployment. But what prospects does it actually offer to Ethiopian youth?
Fighting the pandemic in the global South
On the other side of the pandemic, we must strengthen and build strong working-class movements to challenge imperialism and neocolonialism.
What washerwomen would say on a webinar
Regular Kenyans try to survive the economic fallout from the coronavirus.
To fight unemployment we have to fight capitalism
Three activists from the Assembly of the Unemployed talk to us about the challenges facing working-class communities in South Africa.
Journalism: The essential non-essential
COVID-19 re-affirmed journalism is a public good, yet as newsrooms collapse, journalism is in danger.
What’s “local” labor in Burkina Faso’s mining sector?
In Burkina Faso's mines, the differences between local and foreign workers are significant, especially what they get paid.
‘Bogus companies’ in the DR Congo
Can safety policies in the transnational mining sector in DR Congo break with the past?
Low worker wages and high inequality
How an industrial mine in the Congo reveals the inequity of wage distribution.
Born from the soil
Traditional chiefs and the politics of labor recruitment in Zimbabwe’s platinum mining industry.