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The struggle to decolonise education has raised issues of course content and the colour of educators, but deep decolonisation also calls into question the methods of education forcibly exported [...]

This is hardly surprising. More people voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump. And Obama’s elegance and restraint is in marked contrast with the antics of his cunning but thuggish [...]

Russia’s state broadcaster boasted of their force’s role in grabbing Aleppo. The US and Britain have condemned the assaults. They are hypocrites. The horrors in the Middle East did not begin with [...]

Were the Rosettenville attacks xenophobic, or a legitimate response to frustrations about the failure of the police to deal with criminals and drugs in proletarian communities?  The incidents [...]

The election of Donald Trump has given an ideological boost to the most aggressively rapacious of the ruling class and their free market media figures. Tens of thousands of people will take to [...]

Its all systems go for the launch of a new workers union federation in South Africa. All key issues such as constitution, logo and colors have been agreed on and between now and this year the [...]

Some people who had been retrenched or those who are currently employed by the mines are involved in what others called “illegal mining” or zama- zama (Zulu for “those who try their luck”). The [...]

The death of Castro, long-time leader of Cuba, last November provoked a polarised response. The establishment denounced him as a dictator who ruined Cuba, while some on the left celebrated him [...]

“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.” – Amilcar Cabral. Cabral [...]

Venezuela: for sale to the highest bidder? The theory of state capitalism has played a critical role in the International Socialist tradition’s critique of regimes claiming to be socialist. In [...]