The South African Communist Party leader continues his tirade against alliance partner ANC for bringing the Democratic Alliance into the unity government
Western powers and multinational corporations continue to exploit Africa’s natural resources, exploit its labour, and perpetuate dependency through unequal trade relations and debt burdens
The forms of capitalism adopted in the West and in economies such as China are influenced by how early or late those polities were in coming to the game
‘Squid Game’ is an explicit critique of the current mode of capitalism. But far too much popular discourse has overlooked or neglected its sociopolitical messages.
To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated
In his swansong, Santu Mofokeng ruminates on mortality, ancestry and dispossession
This is an edited extract of the introduction to ‘Revolutionary Thought in the 20th Century’ (1980) edited by late anti-apartheid stalwart Ben Turok
Some activists in the movement are rewarded for their role in the struggle for free, decolonised education; others are imprisoned.
A veteran ANC stalwart and member of parliament speaks about the party, Parliament and the dearth of left politics in South Africa
The president can get rid of the loathsome political figures but he can’t control everything
In an era of crumbling secular belief systems,
what can atheist parents give to their
children in the place of religion?
By ignoring the causes of poverty and injustice, prosperity churches doom people to destitution
Today’s capitalism is a slide into authoritarianism, using Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism to keep the state in power
The rapid changes in the political and economic landscape have seen people around the world losing their sense of dignity and thus their identity
Ramaphosa’s inability to imagine an emancipatory path takes us back to an unsustainable elitism
We need to drop race as a category and rather see people according to their different needs
The single greatest failure of current punditry is the refusal to recognise that context matters.
Recollections often revolve around images of powerful men but women have always been key participants in the Communist movement.
Mamdani looks at the history and ideologies that have shaped African universities and points to Afrikaans as an example of successful decolonisation
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/ 20 February 2014
With election season upon us, we look at the manifesto: a declaration of belief and/or intention by a person or group, that goes back to the 1500s.
The Economic Freedom Fighters plan to launch educational workshops that teach governance using the theories of communists such as Marx and Lenin.
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/ 20 November 2008
As the global financial crisis tightens its grip, sales of Karl Marx’s <i>Das Kapital</i> are booming. Stuart Jeffries offers this handy primer.
The balance between growth and exploitation is tenuous, writes Piet Naudé.