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 political margins
Pharmaceutical companies stand to make billions from the Covid-19 pandemic, but the vaccines they have developed are the fruits of the collective labour of all of humanity.
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 Mashaba-esque version of right-wing politics?
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.
Numsa’s first attempt to mobilise a cross-platform movement in the left wing highlighted some of the cracks that could widen and deepen with time.
The allegiance to Marxist-Leninism and statism is out of step with modern democratic practice.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa may become the first mass worker’s party to oppose the ANC, writes Jane Duncan.
Unlike the ANC, Mexico’s Zapatistas rejected both systems, giving us hope for real alternatives.
The EFF’s talks with socialist movements about potential coalitions seem to have stalled. We have to ask, is the EFF really on the political left?
The new-world socialists must stop looking for scapegoats and enter partnerships to ensure Marikana does not happen again, writes Denis MacShane.
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/ 10 February 2012
The sixth presidential council of the World Federation of Trade Unions’ meeting in Johannesburg brings back the socialism debate.
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/ 18 December 2009
For Joel Kovel, a proponent of eco-socialism, failure of the Copenhagen negotiations is a forgone conclusion.
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/ 9 November 2009
In the dense forests of the idyllic Danube island of Persin lie the ghastly remains of a communist-era death camp.
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/ 26 October 2009
Cope has accused the government of bowing to pressure from left-leaning unions and shifting economic policy towards more socialist agendas.
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/ 3 December 2008
Reflecting what’s on the minds of Americans, "bailout" and "socialism" have beaten "maverick" in a US dictionary word-of-the-year competition.