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With its upcoming Conference of the Left, the South African Communist Party must confront its history and embrace a more radical, anti-capitalist stance to effectively challenge the status quo.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address was an exercise in spin. The claim that South Africa is on a path to recovery contradicts a harsh and worsening reality.
A New Left, if it is to be born, will come quietly at first, gathering fragments of resistance.
Amandla! has always been more than a magazine. It is part of an ecosystem of movements, thinkers, activists, workers, feminists, youth organisers, and internationalists committed to building a just, democratic, and egalitarian society.
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.
The National Dialogue is incapable of addressing the structural roots of inequality, unemployment and state collapse.
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.
Capitalism produces not just economic poverty, but social and spiritual poverty. It destroys the community. It corrodes relationships. It kills the future.
It is the South African form of neoliberalism that creates and reproduces the very poverty, unemployment and inequality the GNU is committed to reversing.