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Richard Pithouse writes about politics, music and poetry.
Xenophobia is festering across the world. In South Africa it carries a dangerous legitimacy, cloaked in the language of liberation, and now embodied in open fascism of Operation…
In collaboration with crooks, political mafias have emerged in which private fortunes are being built on plundered public wealth
In an America awash with leering cruelty, Inyo, a beautiful record by an extraordinary musician, is finally heard after two decades in the vault
Floyd Shivambu’s new political project masks its predatory character in the language of liberation
South Africa is in crisis and the intra-elite battles about how to move forward do not offer any viable path towards a just way resolution
Brazil and India are starting to win gains for ‘platform’ workers such as delivery riders. Unions in South African must support similar struggles
As the US president rapidly escalates pressure on South Africa in the name of white citizens, we must stand up for reason and principle
As the US president turns on South Africa it is time to take a wider view of domestic complicity with his racism
A compelling new biography of Brazil’s Lula da Silva offers a sharp contrast to the dispiriting state of South Africa’s politics
Donald Trump’s return to power is a disaster for America, but we should be mindful that South Africa may risk a similar fate
He developed liberation theology, rooted in the lived experience of the oppressed, and committed to transforming unjust social and political structures
A new publication sustains the discussion of the ideas of a creative and courageous radical for a new generation
X, Facebook and Instagram exercise ordinate and often pernicious power, which must be contested and socially enriching alternatives developed
The toxic xenophobic politics pushed by Gayton McKenzie and the Patriotic Alliance debases us all
South Africa is a terrifyingly violent country, but giving the police licence to kill can only make things worse
The Tories collapsed in the United Kingdom and in France after a second round there was the unexpected surge of success for the left This content is restricted to registered…
Our public sphere is not well served by people flinging chunks of dogma around
The liberal right needs to understand that the DA did not win the election and that it has no mandate to unilaterally impose its socially destructive policies on society
We need to find new and better ways to talk about our society
As the liberal establishment and the kleptocratic nationalists in and outside of the ANC both see a moment of political possibility for themselves it is the left in the ANC that…
