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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Marxism
Ruth First—100 years
As we marked the centenary of the birth of an important leader of the ANC and SACP, Ruth First, Amandla! talked with Rob Davies, former Minister of Trade and Industry and a colleague of Ruth First at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo before her assassination.
Hamba kahle Eddie Webster: The labour movement will miss you
Eddie Webster has left us. The hole in the world that he left is large indeed. He passed away on Tuesday, 5 March, from a heart attack at the age of 81. More than anyone else, Eddie Webster remade the field of industrial sociology in South Africa, but his impact was...
The Left and Political Islam | by Farid Esak
The task of defining both the Left and political Islam is no mean one. Both function and are understood within their own conceptual frameworks, geographical locations and time frames. In the limited space available here one can only speak in broad terms – thereby...
Marxism, feminism and women’s liberation | by Sharon Smith
Sharon Smith, author of the soon-to-be-republished Women and Socialism: Essays on Women's Liberation, examines how the Marxist tradition has approached the struggle to end women's oppression, including its attitude toward other theories, in this article based on a...
Neville Alexander: Revolutionary who changed many lives | by Brian Ramadiro, Jane Duncan, Salim Vally
The death of Neville Alexander on August 27, coming as it does in the wake of the massacre of mineworkers at Marikana, is a double blow. He had the breadth of intellect and depth of knowledge to help the world to understand the significance of these events. Throughout...
Uneven and combined Marxism within South Africa’s urban social movements | by Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai and Trevor Ngwane
(Another contribution to the debate about what's wrong with those pesky urb soc mvts: We agree with Andrew Nash that the answers to these questions will not come through the elaboration of a new, ‘proper’ Marxist line by mainly university-based, white intellectuals,...
Towards an ecosocialist network | by Grant Brookes
Text of a presentation by Grant Brookes at the conference Socialism 2012: Class Struggle in Aotearoa, held June 1-3 in Wellington, New Zealand, sponsored by the Workers Party New Zealand. I had some reservations, when I was asked to speak in this session, about an...
Marxism, the 21st century and social transformation | by Bill Fletcher, Jr.
A discussion of the future of socialism and social transformation must be grounded in two realities. The first reality is the broader economic, environmental and state-legitimacy crises in which humanity finds itself. In other words, the convergence of these three...