Jeff Rudin

In the name of free trade, countries went to war in the 1700s and 1800s. Today, trade is the continuation of the politics of war by other means

The loans, which hike up debt, the paltry loss and damage pledges, companies investing in oil and gas and the rise of the far right all show that the EU and US climate action is…

The very idea that BEE can empower most — let alone all — Africans in a capitalist country is a nonsense that ought to have been subject to instant and constant exposure by the…

We need to begin any analysis with the realisation that capitalism has few winners

The advocate’s speech on inequality, apartheid, the ANC and optimism at the M&G’s 200 Young South Africans event is wanting in a number of aspects

Although the answers are not simple, the warnings have been coming for more than three decades and yet leaders are still not doing what must be done

Producing EVs comes with all the absurdities of producing petrol vehicles

While race is still central, it is the battle among the rich for the wealth of South Africa that has exacerbated inequality

The outbreak and the response to it is showing us that many things are possible, including the provision of water to waterless municipalities

The emergence of an upwardly mobile black elite is a success story, but it remains under wraps

The president is explicit: white monopoly capital causes black poverty, justifying the black elite being the only beneficiaries of economic change.

Two decades since 1994, we’re still stuck in the racial categories of the old regime – a colour-coding of class from which only the rich benefit.

South Africa can afford fee-free universities without squeezing them to make do with even less.

There is no trade-off between a lower carbon economy and unemployment and poverty.

The class of class struggle is much more than just an objective measure of poverty or wealth, of inequality or economic power.