At a Joe Slovo commemoration, Ramaphosa warned the communist party that going it alone would be a historic mistake and undermine the broader liberation alliance
Communists say their political identity and influence have been diluted
Delegates to the SACP’s fifth Special National Congress will reassess its partnership with the ANC, citing declining electoral fortunes and growing voter discontent
Economic war rages on as global power dynamics shift.
Throughout the ‘New Frame’ controversy, holier-than-thou bourgeois-baiters and obsessive players of the race card have shown why the hard left has condemned itself to the…
We’ve tried leftism for long enough and what we have to show for it is corruption and mismanagement, when what we need is jobs and education. Is it time to try out a…
Covid-19 exposes the continued inability of white South Africa to critically reflect on their positionality or engage in meaningful, self-reflective, and constructive debate
We need an entirely new way of doing things to put an end to poverty
The SACP is not building socialism, or even social democracy. Sadly, it has become just another party advancing the politics of patronage
Society’s fascination with robbing the rich to feed the poor, whether fabricated or in real life, reveals a profound longing for justice and redistribution in a capitalist world
A recent column by Ivo Vegter in the Daily Maverick posited that there is a ‘strong left-wing tendency in academia
It seems like the word “socialism” has become a swear word
To change South Africa to a socialist state will not happen through a social pact, writes Frans Rautenbach
He outlived his great comrade and compañero Che Guevara by a little over 49 years, but now Fidel Castro is dead.
Many believed Chávez would lead the world from capitalism to socialism, but an over-reliance on oil has seen his leftist vision disintegrate.
Graduates can choose to enhance the lives of all South Africans or to enrich themselves.
This is a time to embrace working-class unity and challenge the status quo of capitalist oppression.
There is hope that this time, with a rise in grass-roots social activism, capitalism will not win.
Numsa’s umbrella entity, the United Front, not so united as delegates disagree on internal structure and what role the party should play in elections.
Numsa’s symposium attracted interest from socialist groups in over 17 countries, but many fellow Cosatu affiliates were conspicuously absent.
