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Decades since the spring of 1934 when the Communists first proposed the Popular Front as their strategy for fighting fascism and even longer since the summer of 1939 when it was suddenly terminated by the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Popular Front—the alliance of the...
Whenever the inherent contradictions of the capitalist system have developed into an overt crisis, the unevenness of capitalist development has acted as a sort of pressure-release mechanism. In our neoliberal times, the unevenness can be seen on many levels – from the...
By Jeremy Cronin, SACP deputy general secretary The mainstream press today has made much of Cronin’s comments as anti-Vavi statements with regards to the Civil Society Conference convened by COSATU recently. Below, read what Cronin had to say in Umzebenzi Online and...
By Jacklyn CockWe are living at a time of environmental crisis. This crisis means that we face serious threats to the natural resource base on which all economic activities depend. These threats are not ‘natural’ and inevitable. They are social in their causes and...
Dear Trevor (I am assuming that you will read or receive this): I can recognise most of your analysis of the crisis of the South African Left because it corresponds with that of the West European, North American, Russian or Latin American Left. What I cannot agree...
Dear Peter, It is a pity that you engage in caricature rather than addressing seriously what I had to say. "I am also disappointed that you (whichever of the above persons you may be) should reach for the stock-in-trade of M-L critics - The Revolution Betrayed! Or, to...
Wed, 17/06/2009 Iran is gripped by a political crisis, reports Simon Hardy. Claims of rigged elections have spiralled into a mass popular movement on the streets, but is Mousavi the way forward? Thirty years after the Iranian revolution, which saw the creation of the...
26 March 2009 David North spoke last week at San Diego State University (March 19) and University of California, Berkeley (March 22) on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Return of History.” We publish here the notes upon which his lectures were based. 1. It is...
Socialism's all the rage. "We Are All Socialists Now," Newsweek declares. As the right wing tells it, we're already living in the USSA. But what do self-identified socialists (and their progressive friends) have to say about the global economic crisis? Jack London...