Mass Struggles Continue in Burundi
by Drew Povey
Turmoil continues to grip Burundi as we go to press, nearly seven months after President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek...
Students’ Rebellion in South Africa
by Ashley Fataar
After ten days of unprecedented protests, students in South Africa won an interim demand that there be no increases in university fees...
W/African Trade Unions Organise Special Congress
by Segun Ogun
A special congress of the Organisation of Trade Unions in West Africa (OTUWA) held on October 22-24, at Abuja. Trade union federations...
Fee protests point to a much deeper problem at South African universities
Ashley Fataar of Keep Left (the sister organisation of SWL in South Africa provides analysis of the students revolt in South Africa, from the...
Ghastly Massacre in Garissa
al-Shabab and Boko Haram; two monsters of the system
by Baba Aye
The militant Jihadist group, al-Shabab killed 148 students of the Garissa University College, Kenya,...