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Lockdown had a “catastrophic effect” on the nation and the most disadvantaged are no better off than they were during the global financial crash 15 years ago, according to a landmark report.
Revised version of an article published as "Marxism and the Jewish Question" in Two Nations, Two States" (2002, new edition 2016) "The socialist revolution is the only realistic solution of the Jewish question. If the Jewish workers and peasants asked for an independent state, good - but they didn't get it under Great Britain. But if they want it, the proletariat will give it. We are not in favour, but only the victorious working class can give it to them." Leon Trotsky, 15 June 1940 (Writings 1939-40, p.287)
Revised version of an article published as "Marxism and the Jewish Question" in Two Nations, Two States" (2002, new edition 2016) "The socialist revolution is the only realistic solution of the Jewish question. If the Jewish workers and peasants asked for an independent state, good - but they didn't get it under Great Britain. But if they want it, the proletariat will give it. We are not in favour, but only the victorious working class can give it to them." Leon Trotsky, 15 June 1940 (Writings 1939-40, p.287)
There is one aspect of nationhood to which political analysts contemplating the meaning of 'South African-ness' rarely devote much consideration: the vote, writes Lindiwe Mazibuko.
South Africans are legendarily resilient, but the decline under ANC is so bad that even those who are inured to indifferent or hostile governments are exasperated. When people of all backgrounds start to experience decline instead of progress, the electoral fortunes of those in charge start to wane, and this is happening to ANC