With the SACP having (semi-) broken from the nationalist cover of the ANC, the question is ‘why’ and what are its implications?
Decoding the SACP’s independence: the historical context for its 2026 election strategy (Part One)
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Organising the unemployed: The Botshabelo Unemployed Movement
When you organise unemployed people, they think that you organise them to get money.
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.
It’s wrong to assume that SA has credible leadership
Retired trade unionist Dinga Sikwebu’s characterisation of the current political situation as a stalemate — and therefore a basis for the much-vaunted national dialogue and social compact — fatally assumes that we have a political elite and business class with...
Between Two Evils
This article was first published on the Africa is a Country website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Politics during apartheid had a certain straight-line simplicity. It was always pretty clear who the...
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...
Elections: WAY FORWARD FOR THE LEFT
WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the profound effect this election is going to have on shaping the medium-term political landscape in the country. That means that it’s going to have a profound effect on how to go about trying to construct a Left party. And there are major...