About ILRIG
The International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) is a support organisation dedicated to research, education, training, the production of popular materials, and the provision of reflective spaces for working class movements in South and Southern Africa.
ILRIG and COVID-19
Find out more about our approach to the COVID-19 pandemic and how our work has changed in relation to lockdown.
Recent Articles
A 30-year slow-motion crash: The foundations and realities of SA’s local government crisis
By Dale T McKinley This version of the article was originally published in Daily Maverick, 2 Apr 2026 Decades of mismanagement have plunged South...
How austerity, capitalism’s protector, breeds fascism in an elaborate exercise in class domination
by Dr Dale T McKinley Clara E Mattei’s The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism lays out how capitalism...
South Africa’s morass of unemployment: Causes, consequences and the need for communes
By Shawn Hattingh Originally published by Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal 26 March, 2026. Photo: Supplied South Africa faces...
Events
Art of Freedom – 2nd Gauteng Platform
22-23 June La Verna Retreat Centre, Vanderbijlpark The International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) held a successful Gauteng...
ILRIG 40th Anniversary: Festival of Building Working Class Power- Popular education, Self-Organising and resistance
ILRIG hosted a 40th Anniversary Festival which included workshops, movies, seminars, poetry and theatre. The focus was on the 40 years of struggles...
[Webinar] THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: LEFT VOICES FROM UKRAINEWebinar:
THIS EVENT HAS PASSED. Watch the Webinar recording below. https://youtu.be/I-IP53lY4Go Since the start of the present Russia-Ukraine War there have...
Educational Resources
Women Healing Together
ILRIG supported Cape Town-based activist organisations - Housing Assembly, Reclaim The City, IYM, and QanduQandu - in organising a deeply powerful...
Seeds of Freedom: Feminism for the Working Class
Seeds of Freedom: Feminism for the Working Class is the latest feminist booklet for South African activists. This book is a powerful, accessible...
Democratic Confederalism at HRF 2026
https://anf-news.com/kultur/guney-afrika-daki-bir-festivalde-demokratik-konfederalizm-tanitildi-226845 ILRIG once again joined the Human Rights...





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