The membership base of South Africa’s trade union movement has undergone significant changes which begs the question: has it moved away from its working class roots to become a middle class movement.
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A crackdown on the beef and leather trades has put hundreds of thousands of Indian Muslims and Dalits out of work, vexing already-tense religious relations and hurting India’s economy.
Trump should drop his plans to cut taxes and instead look to some of our closest friends to learn what policies actually work to build and sustain a vibrant middle class.
Labour must develop its pro-social and pro-working class agenda for an electorate that has been failed by globalisation and EU integration.
Why do so many Australian TV dramas depict the lives of professionals when there is plenty of real drama for those living from one paycheck to the next?
In work poverty is a sign the icy tide of capitalism is now lapping at our ankles in the global north.
In this article from 2017, a look at the coordination of strategy between white and Black activists to fight systemic class oppression.
Working-class students are put off by a perceived future of low pay and high debt.
A professor takes us back more than 20 years, to when struggling white working-class voters in Oregon were convinced that a conservative social agenda would help bring back timber jobs.
Trump understood that the world is changing.
Donald Trump employed a ‘choreography of shame’ that diminished everybody – except white working-class men.
White middle-class parents get an easy time of it when it comes to parental involvement.
Labor’s decline has steadily eroded the prospects of working-class Americans, fueling the backlash that propelled Trump. His election, however, will likely deliver unions a knockout punch, hurting his supporters most.
The leaderlessness of South Africa’s #FeesMustFall student movement has ultimately fed into divisions within the grouping.
If we really want social mobility, we need to talk about family privilege.
One of the messages coming out of Donald Trump’s victory is that his supporters are rejecting the tolerance and cosmopolitanism of the past 30 years.
A century on from the UK’s only ever general strike, the major federation for organised labour in Britain must learn to be more effective.
Donald Trump has emerged as a self-proclaimed hero of the working class, yet his policies and pedigree suggest he’s anything but.
The UK establishment has never understood the northern working class – and no wonder.
Brexit campaigners connected with voters who felt left behind – and won.
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