If the right-wing forces in South Africa and globally continue to grow, we face a dark future.
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Unemployment is exceptionally high — even if elites are trying to pretend otherwise
South Africa doesn’t have a “statistical-error” unemployment crisis; it has a jobs crisis.
BRICS ‘multipolar’ myths, subimperial realities: no refuge from Trump’s tariffs
The Western liberal political empire is shamed beyond repair by genocide in Palestine.
The pandemic accord: new possibilities for public health industrialisation pathways?
The destructive impact of the newly imposed US tariffs and aid cuts on South Africa are undeniable. Nonetheless, pockets of hope for advancing global solidarity and a more just global economy remain.
How South Africa’s poor continue paying for the privileges of the rich
It is the South African form of neoliberalism that creates and reproduces the very poverty, unemployment and inequality the GNU is committed to reversing.
Class struggle on the streets of Mozambique
Foreign governments support Mozambique because of its minerals, especially the third largest gas field in Africa.
A fractured world: reflections on power, polarity and polycrisis
Nick Buxton speaks to Adam Tooze, and Walden Bello, to examine where geopolitical or geoeconomic power lies today, how it is being exercised and how that might be changing.
What happened at Komati power station? Lessons for a public pathway to a just energy transition
The Komati repowering and repurposing project can be considered a failure—but it didn’t have to be.
The coming crisis of neoliberal electricity reform in South Africa
South Africa’s energy transition cannot succeed without centring the needs of the working class.