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The impotence of the left would not be a problem if the right’s policies were productive.
COUNTRY

​SA left will have to stand up to an unscrupulous ruling class to resurrect itself

Those in power will use propaganda and repressive state apparatus to maintain their grasp on the country’s purse strings

  • Mathew Blatchford
5 min read
The impotence of the left would not be a problem if the right’s policies were productive.
COUNTRY

​South African left will have to stand up to an unscrupulous ruling class to resurrect itself

Those in power will use propaganda and repressive state apparatus to maintain their grasp on the country’s purse strings

  • Mathew Blatchford
5 min read
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS

Is this the heart of redness?

So, if your beret and overall are red, you’re leftwing, right? Not so easy, fighter.

  • Kwanele Sosibo
7 min read
FUTURE OF THE LEFT

One step at a time, dear people

An important lessons that we have learnt in the United Front is that although there may be no road map, it is vital to know the destination.

  • Dinga Sikwebu
4 min read
United Front.
FUTURE OF THE LEFT

United Front reinvents the class struggle

The world of 2015 is a much-changed place, but the embryonic new left of the United Front is looking to the 1970s and earlier for its inspiration.

  • Phillip De Wet
5 min read
Reverend Allan Boesak.
CAPITALISM

Left moves to seize the moment

There is hope that this time, with a rise in grass-roots social activism, capitalism will not win.

  • Kwanele Sosibo
  • Verashni Pillay
9 min read
ANC

SA’s revolution in a political and ideological Gordian knot

Those who claim to be the prime champions of the drive for “radical transformation” must be willing to radically transform themselves.

  • Dale T McKinley
6 min read