BUILDING PROTEST FROM BELOW
Authors: Lebo Malebo & Tebza Mokgope Aluta Continua- the struggle continues in most parts of the world and locally. It is with this background that as Tsakane can proudly report that our [...]
The Coming Revolution by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
Since the organisations decision to launch as political party at its “What is to be Done” founding assembly in July 2013, impressive gains have been made. Its electoral success saw the EFF gain [...]
Is there a Parliamentary Road to Socialism?
When the global financial crisis hit in 2008/9, the governments of the world raised $8,500 billion to save the banks from collapsing. If they wanted to lift the world’s poorest people out of [...]
ISIS: a product of imperialism and dictatorship
As The Socialist was being produced, Isis, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, was seizing towns across Iraq and threatening to overthrow the Iraqi government. It’s actions have horrified many. [...]
Honk Kong; the Right to Choice
Demonstrations and occupations have gripped the region recently caused a deep crisis for Hong Kong’s rulers. Hong Kong’s 28,000 police force has battled the movement. Riot police have waded in to [...]
Fighting Racism – Bolsheviks in America
In 1867, Marx argued in his most famous work Capital: “In the United States of America, every independent workers’ movement was paralyzed as long as slavery disfigured part of the republic. Labor [...]
Lesotho’s rulers at each other throats
The current turmoil in this so-called “mountain kingdom” is really a culmination of a year-and-half long dispute between the coalition government partners. The main dispute coming from the two [...]
ANC REPORT USED TO ISOLATE NUMSA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM
Democratic Left Front This statement was issued to a meeting of 11 Cosatu unions opposed to the expulsion of NUMSA – Mid October 2014 While our first task must be to launch a mass campaign to [...]
Can you hear the Balalaikas playing?
When something happens once, you can excuse it – but twice in a year? For the second time, the Russian nuclear provider, Rosatom, ‘jumped the gun’ with an announcement that Russia and South [...]
Church Disaster Exposes Influence of Mega Churches
Eighty South Africans were amongst those killed when a building belonging to Pastor TB Joshua, Synagogue Church of All Nations, collapsed in Nigeria. This tragedy has captivated the attention of [...]
