Play: No Money For Jam
A play about COVID-19 post-lockdown consequences regarding job security, wage levels and gender-based violence – all symptoms of a general s
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ILRIG and COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic and related government-imposed lockdown, the nature of our work has had to change substantially so that we can still provide solidarity and political education while prioritising the safety of our team and our comrades in community and worker organisations. This page contains our statement suspending public activities, our solidarity work through the COVID-19 Working Class Campaign, as well as a number of online educational events that we have held during this period.
Imagining a World Beyond Policing (poster)
This poster was featured in Workers World News Issue 116. Poster and words below by Mikayla Boorany (Instagram @mikaylaboorany): “In
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Playinar: Plague in the Time of King Kapital and Queen Corona
ILRIG together with the Botsotso Arts Collective have produced this made-for-radio play, which is presently being rolled out on community r
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The ‘other’ countries with Covid-19 success stories and what we can learn from them
By Dale T. McKinley• 28 July 2020 Four nations outside Europe have so far managed to successfully confront, corral and contain the Covid-19
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Webinar: Feminist Exchange Series: Women Workers & Covid-19
You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Jul 30, 2020 03:00 PM Johannesburg Topic: Feminist Exchange Series: Women Workers & Covid-19
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Song: For Power
FOR POWER s_os · Soundz Of The South -For Power(ZA – 4ML – 20 – 00002) The coronavirus has rapidly spread across the
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Where have all the soldiers gone?
Videos and pictures emerged of township residents being forced, at gun point, to do physical exercises in public spaces. Others showed
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In, out and round-about: the variegated terrain of labour responses to the C-19 pandemic in SA
By Dale T. Mckinley (ILRIG REO)South Africa Labour Bulletin Vol.43, No.4 (June 2020) In the overall context of this historic crisis, will
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COVID-19 Working Class Campaign
On Wednesday 18 March 2020 around 40 activists from various working class formations met at the House of Movements in Johannesburg to plan
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Organise against Coronavirus (Afrikaans)
A pamphlet produced by Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO) and translated by ILRIG. Organisations who wish to use and distribute these can h
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Women Under Lockdown
LISTEN TO THE RECORDING HERE. You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Thursday, 4 June 2020, 2PM SASTTopic: Women Under Lockdown The
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Trump is a bony-eared assfish…and other tales from the Covid-19 rogues gallery (Part One)
By Dale T. McKinley (This article was first published here). Even during the best of times, there are always going to be rogues in our
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Capitalist Crisis and the Coronavirus
A photo essay on what the COVID-19 pandemic means for the capitalist
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COVID 19: The Politics of Disease and the Disease of Politics Pt.1
by Leonard Gentle Part 1: Global Upheavals and the Politics of Disease As we enter the second week of South Africa’s lock-down to fight
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South Africa and the Political Economy of the Coronavirus
LISTEN TO THE RECORDING HERE. READ OUPA’S PRESENTATION HERE. You are invited to a Zoom webinar.When: Thursday, 16 April 2020, 3PM
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Covid-19 and Capitalism: ‘Pandemics… have their roots in environmental change and ecosystem disturbances’
by Dale T. McKinley As the escalating crisis of the climate crisis is so tragically and consistently showing, unless there is a reframing
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Press Statement: ILRIG Suspension of Public Events and Activities in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
18 March 2020 In light of the rapid global spread of COVID-19 (also known as the coronavirus) and its potentially devastating impact on
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