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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SACP’s umms and ahhs: holes in motivations to contest elections
The SACP’s steadfastness to implement the organisation’s decision to independently contest the coming local government election is proving to be a source of consternation within the party and among its partners, the ANC and trade union federation Cosatu.
Just transition requires social dialogue and protection
Trade unions in the mining sector are in a unique position when it comes to the just transition.
The (mostly) unacknowledged commitment of public teachers and health workers (Part 2)
Part 2 in a three-part series. Read Part 1 here. The Centre for Risk Analysis is typical in drawing attention to the “lack of service delivery that has accompanied” the public sector wage bill of R721-billion. That the mere mention of poor service delivery is...
THE POPULIST THREAT AND THE RESPONSE OF THE LEFT
The ANC-DA Alliance is more deeply committed to neoliberalism even than its predecessors.
The unwelcome outcomes from the 2024 elections open new political opportunities (Part Four)
The Government of National Unity (GNU) represents the consolidation of neoliberalism under the leadership of the ANC and DA.
Build a broad united front on the ground
Sidney Kgara, head of Nehawu’s Policy Development Unit, proposes that a popular left front must be urgently built around the material interests of working-class communities.
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.
Elections 2024: Just another stop on a long road to nowhere?
This article was first published in City Press. We are publishing a variety of views on the election results to stimulate debate. South Africa held its national and provincial elections on 29 May, amid the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Contrary to...