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Zuma has once again shown his disdain for the urban and rural poor. His apology cannot be accepted. The Nkandla debacle has gone on now for some six years. State money was spent on aggrandizing [...]

On Friday 8 April, Over 300 residents from Xolobeni and surrounding villages in the coastal Amadiba community came to meet a delegation of nine from the Minister of Mineral Resources, from DMR in [...]

While Aba Thembu king Dalindyebo continues to demand a special treatment a growing number of people are starting to ask key questions around the royal family and their relevance in this day and [...]

At a meeting in Manchester last week I heard a Syrian refugee describe his plight and that of his family. It was heartbreaking. Essentially the same story could be told of millions, and their [...]

South Africa is in the middle of drought. The drought has been intensified by El Nino, a global weather pattern that causes dryer conditions, The media and mainstream politicians give the [...]

The distinguished socialist scholar and activist Professor Martin Legassick passed away on 1 March 2016, after a protracted and brave fight against cancer. Despite ill-health and excruciating [...]

Patrice Lumumba was murdered in January 1961 When his death was finally announced the following month there was uproar. Protests swept cities and towns across the globe. Malcolm X described [...]

It’s almost 10 years since the onset of the financial crisis, yet the world is more unstable and polarized, writes Australian socialist Tom Bramble, in an article for Red Flag. WHEN THE U.S. [...]

An extract from Leon Trotsky 1938 “Just the same,” the moralist continues to insist, “does it mean that in the class struggle against capitalists all means are permissible: lying, frame-up, [...]

At universities and other public institutions across South Africa, outsourced workers are protesting and embarking on strikes to demand they be insourced. They believe that the first step to [...]