A New Left, if it is to be born, will come quietly at first, gathering fragments of resistance.
What the night teaches: toward a New Left in an age of unfreedom
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Public funding of collective transport is the only sustainable future
The lack of innovative government policies over the last decade has deepened the transport sector crisis we see today.
Amandla! Social Justice Festival
Join us for a weekend dedicated to radical ideas, debate, education, music, film, and culture from December 12 to 14, 2025 at the University of Johannesburg’s Hockey Club in Melville.
SA needs to reject the dogma that wages are a burden
Suppressing wages suppresses demand, and suppressed demand suffocates investment.
Resistance to Trump grows: mass marches, local rebellions, electoral victories
Resistance to President Donald Trump is growing, taking the form of massive, peaceful protest marches, small local rebellions, Democratic Party election victories, and a gradually changing public opinion.
Madlanga evidence shows urgent need to protect whistle-blowers and investigators
As a society under siege from lawlessness, we should all insist on the protection of corruption investigators and whistle-blowers, regardless of the sector in which they operate.
Investment in the public sector should be used as an anti-inflationary tool
The announcements in the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) about a lower inflation target and cuts to public expenditure in real terms will exacerbate material insecurity and worsen developmental outcomes.
Another Left is possible
The overall global balance has clearly tilted in favour of the reactionary radicalisation. This is not a product of objective conditions alone, but also of the Left’s own shortcomings and failures.
Amandla at 100: confronting the threat of a resurgent right
Amandla! has always been more than a magazine. It is part of an ecosystem of movements, thinkers, activists, workers, feminists, youth organisers, and internationalists committed to building a just, democratic, and egalitarian society.