The SACP’s current trajectory serves the interests of the bourgeois nationalist elite and perpetuates the suffering of the working class.
The SACP’s election gambit: betrayal masquerading as liberation
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Communism
Nepal’s protests are the result of a blocked revolution
When Nepal became a republic in 2008, it aroused hopes for a fundamental transformation of Nepali society. The inability of Nepal’s left parties to deliver on those hopes created a mood of discontent among young people that exploded over the last month.
Is an alternative possible? | by Phil Gasper
Phil Gasper reviews what Marx had to say about the transition from capitalism to socialism THE REMARKABLE emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the closing months of 2011 has not only shifted the political debate in the United States, putting issues of...
Ecological Marxism and the eco-logic of fossil capitalism | by Devan Pillay
Do Marxists have anything to say about the natural environment and the crisis of sustainability? Has Marx been misrepresented by the many varieties of Marxism that have used his name over the past century?During the height of the economic crisis, the president of a...
The Popular Front, A Social and Political Tragedy: The Case of France | by Dan La Botz
Decades since the spring of 1934 when the Communists first proposed the Popular Front as their strategy for fighting fascism and even longer since the summer of 1939 when it was suddenly terminated by the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Popular Front—the alliance of the...
Response from Martin Legassick to Peter Waterman
Revolution WITHIN Capitalism Dear Peter, I have read your recent response to Trevor Ngwane, and have also read your 1998 book on "Globalisation...", of which your recent email is a summary. I must say that I found both your book and your recent response very weak....
Martin Legassick responds to Peter Waterman – Again
Dear Peter, It is a pity that you engage in caricature rather than addressing seriously what I had to say. "I am also disappointed that you (whichever of the above persons you may be) should reach for the stock-in-trade of M-L critics - The Revolution Betrayed! Or, to...
Rejoinder from Peter Waterman
Dear Trevor (I am assuming that you will read or receive this): I can recognise most of your analysis of the crisis of the South African Left because it corresponds with that of the West European, North American, Russian or Latin American Left. What I cannot agree...
Communism: a viable alternative?
As the epoch of liberal capitalism and the free market falls apart, the question of an alternative must be re-opened Comment by Bernard Keenan guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 March 2009 Article History: Let's get one thing out of the way to begin with: history is back in...