The feature in this issue focuses on the rise of the right and the challenge for the Left to resist.
Can The Right Be Stopped?
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Patrick Bond
BRICS ‘multipolar’ myths, subimperial realities: no refuge from Trump’s tariffs
The Western liberal political empire is shamed beyond repair by genocide in Palestine.
South African manufacturing Trumped!
The feature in this issue focuses on the new era of tariffs from the Trump administration and their effects on South Africa.
National Development Plan autopsy confirms SA Left’s gloom-and-doom predictions
The two most prominent openly pro-corporate politicians active in South Africa since the early 2010s - Trevor Manuel and Cyril Ramaphosa - teamed up in 2009-12, during Jacob Zuma’s presidency, to produce a National Development Plan (NDP). They were supported by a...
South Africa: Public Sector Strike Highlights Post-Apartheid’s Contradictions
By Patrick BondAugust 22, 2010 - The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government have vowed to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting more than a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a...