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.
2024: WAKE UP CALL FOR THE LEFT
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Editorials
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.
PERSPECTIVES FOR THE LEFT
There have been moments when opportunities for a revival of the socialist Left looked promising. The late 1990s saw the flourishing of a range of social justice struggles, which began to pose a challenge to the ANC government’s shift to neoliberalism.
THE LONG JOURNEY TO RECOVER AND REBUILD THE UNIONS HAS STARTED
The fight back has begun, but it will be a long road. In our last editorial we described how the labour movement has degenerated.
TAKE BACK THE UNIONS FOR THEIR MEMBERS
So where does the trade union movement go from here? It seems clear that we have now reached a point where the interests of the leadership have become separated from those of the membership, of many unions.