The Western liberal political empire is shamed beyond repair by genocide in Palestine.
BRICS ‘multipolar’ myths, subimperial realities: no refuge from Trump’s tariffs
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Cyril Ramaphosa
How South Africa’s poor continue paying for the privileges of the rich
It is the South African form of neoliberalism that creates and reproduces the very poverty, unemployment and inequality the GNU is committed to reversing.
The structural foundations of gender-based violence in South Africa
Until contemporary violence is traced to its colonial and apartheid roots, and until inherited systems face dismantling rather than reform, South Africa will continue counting bodies, speaking names, and wondering why nothing changes.
Climate sanctions against fossil-addicted capitalists
South Africa gifts CO2 emitters $9400 billion in implicit annual subsidies, contrasted with the 2024 GDP of $403 billion.
The exclusivity of inclusive growth (Part 1) — to those that hath shall always be given
The neoliberal ideologues and their economic hatchet people still persist with the fiction of markets being level playing fields. Worse still, is that most of us believe them. This is Part 1 in a two-part series.
Decoding the SACP’s independence: the historical context for its 2026 election strategy (Part One)
With the SACP having (semi-) broken from the nationalist cover of the ANC, the question is ‘why’ and what are its implications?
Voice of the unemployed
Amandla! spoke to Siziphiwe Dunjana, a member of the Cry of the Xcluded about the challenges of unemployment.
Government chooses food poverty for the many amid exports enriching the few (Part One)
Profit maximisation is why exporting food remains agri-businesses’ first prize, for it is much more profitable than selling on a home market.
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.