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⏳One week to go until Budget Speech 2.0. Will it be tabled this time? 🤔 Over the next week, AIDC will release a factsheet series on ‘𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆?’, starting off by explaining why a #VATIncrease is not only a bad idea but also an unnecessary one. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Marxist thinker and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was born on this day in 1871. Her life remains a model of unshakable socialist ideals and intellectual rigor. "History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."

GEPF surpluses can comfortably cover the payment contribution holiday. #NoToVATIncrease #Budget2025

📢 Three weeks ago, hundreds of activists, social movements, and trade unions took over St. George's CT for a powerful People’s Budget Assembly! The Government of Neoliberal Unity failed to present the budget. Tomorrow, we will be outside Parliament of RSA! Join us as we fight for a

🚨All roads are leading to Parliament of RSA, where the People Against Budget Cuts are hosting a speakout. We have had enough and are calling on citizens to reject South African Government's austerity budget and VAT increase. ✊🏾 #EndBudgetCuts #NoToVATIncrease #PeoplesBudget #Budget2025

The reactions to this post demonstrate how badly we need civic education. These economists did not produce, design or give inputs in the #BudgetSpeech2025. They are civil society activists who are allowed to preview and analyse the budget before Finance Ministers speech.

STATEMENT: AIDC CALLS FOR THE REJECTION OF THE 2025/26 BUDGET aidc.org.za/aidc-calls-for… via Amandla!

Rumor has it, loadshedding may or may not be back in the short term. The bad news is that you might have to redownload ESP but the good news is that you could win a Consol Solanga Solar Jar if you join us tonight at the Just Energy Transition Talk tonight.

🌍✨ Exciting news! AIDC Energy Democracy Officer, Andile Zulu, will be discussing the Just Energy Transition Policy at UCT tonight at 6 PM. Don’t miss out on this important conversation! See details below. 👇🏾 #EnergyDemocracy #JETPolicy #RethinkingEconomics

Happy International Workers' Day! While all workers pay tax, big corporations and the ultra-rich dodge almost $500 billion in tax each year. What do Global South trade unions have to say about this issue, and what can be done about it? #taxtherich #taxjustice #WorkersDay

[TOWNHALL] The Budget by National Treasury RSA National Treasury is back! Join us on Thursday ay 2pm as we make sense of it together SECTION27 Youth Capital Alternative Information and Development Centre RHAP Ilifa Labantwana Institute for Economic Justice #nationalbudget

𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 | Don't forget to join us today from 5:30 PM as we launch our new report, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆: 𝗨𝗻𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮’𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗭𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀.

The AIDC is taking part in the International Tax Reform Summit in Sandton, Johannesburg. The current session focuses on establishing a unified progressive tax agenda for Africa to be presented at the UN. #TaxTheSuperRich #TaxThePower

I wrote a bit of a personal essay 😬 please read it.

📌 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: What can we learn from the youth of 1976? And how can those lessons guide us through the struggles of today? Join the Amandla! Forum next Thursday as we explore these critical questions. RSVP here: bit.ly/YOUTHDAY25 #AmandlaForum #YouthDay

"The GNU is united by an unwavering commitment to a series of structural reforms that will extend an exploitative, undemocratic and costly dependence on private investment for public infrastructure development" My latest for Mail & Guardian mg.co.za/columns/2025-0…

Apartheid died but capitalism evolved to take on a neoliberal form The ANC chose to deregulate financial markets, liberalize trade, lower taxes on corporations, privatize or corporatize SOE's, cut budgeting for public goods... Neoliberalism sustained old and new inequalities