The tragic deaths of the children and the suffering of informal mineworkers should unite South Africans in demanding systemic change rather than scapegoating vulnerable groups.
THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH ‘FOREIGNERS’
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Editorials
THE POPULIST THREAT AND THE RESPONSE OF THE LEFT
The ANC-DA Alliance is more deeply committed to neoliberalism even than its predecessors.
ELECTIONS 2024: IT’S TIME FOR THE LEFT TO TALK
Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.
2024: WAKE UP CALL FOR THE LEFT
The coming 2024 national and provincial elections are the most significant since the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once again there is no credible left-wing or anti-capitalist force contesting.
HOUSE THE PEOPLE AND BUILD THE ECONOMY
Nobody who looks around South Africa’s cities and towns can deny that we have the most acute housing crisis.
ORGANISE AND RESIST AUSTERITY!
From a class perspective, resisting austerity is the most important struggle that needs to be waged. It is poor and working-class people who rely on state services.
PROSPECTS FOR A NEW LEFT
Two decades of ANC-led neoliberalisation, which has surrendered democracy, development and state formation to capital, consolidated the strategic defeat of the Left and working class in South Africa.
NEOLIBERALISM, CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE: STATE OF DYSFUNCTION
Here in South Africa we see a state which fails to function at the most basic level. It fails to provide water, electricity, functioning sewage systems – the most fundamental utilities.
THE ALLIANCE IS DEAD: LONG LIVE THE ALLIANCE
Should the public sector unions decide to go on strike for an above inflation wage increase, which now seems inevitable, the left popular front could come into existence, if not in name then in deed.