Socialism

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…

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…

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.