Johannesburg: Imagine how difficult this is to get right – we are in a foreign country, everyone uses a triple-grip power handshake of sorts, the South African Communist Party is in a tri-part alliance with the ruling party and labor, yet they have embraced neo-liberalism and the Washington consensus including privatization and the whole package, and …
Category: Labor Organizing
COSATU and the House of Labor
Johannesburg: We marched the short distance from our hotel up the hill and then down several blocks until we saw the tall building with COSATU House in large letters at the very top. Once on the 10th floor of this building, one could see all of downtown Jo-burg across the train tracks and the Mandela Bridge …
Kenyan Walmart Textile Workers
Nairobi: This is a huge city yet it seems small in its own way because there is a feeling of the countryside that seems to prevail everywhere in the red dirt paths and constant movement of people along Ngong Road and the busiest streets and the jumble of Uhuru Park next to the dense but understated …