Category: Educational

popED: Dinga Sikwebu

When the left confronts a political crisis, the answer is often the same: form another political party. Veteran trade unionist and political educator Dinga Sikwebu has a name for this obsession: party mania. Drawing on his experience in NUMSA and the United Front, Dinga asks whether the constant search for a new electoral vehicle has […]

Germany and its return to facism?

SAFTU NEC POLITICAL EDUCATION BRIEFING 1. THE SHIFT TO THE HARD RIGHT IN GERMANY IS PART OF A MUCH BIGGER INTERNATIONAL WARNING The far right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has surged in the Saxony-Anhalt state election in Germany. We should not read this as an isolated German development. It belongs to a much wider international political shift. […]

When Movements Become Cults

When Desperation Produces Strongmen Why “Messianic” leaders always turn against workers A SAFTU Political Education Pamphlet Why do Strongmen rise? Strongmen do not rise because societies are “stupid”. They rise because societies are desperately trying to find a way out of a deep crisis. They emerge when people experience: In these moments, people start saying: […]

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