What is socialism and can it work?
Socialism is a society based on meeting the needs of people and planet, not maximising the profits of the rich. It would mean a radically democratic society, with ordinary people [...]
Sudan sit-in shows how ordinary people can run society and win real change
Sudan’s ruling class is desperately trying to reassert control as protests continue demanding fundamental change. And these protests are showing new forms of defiance, resistance and cooperation. [...]
Is a machine after your job?
The automation in the workplace has always made the working class people to be fearful of losing their jobs. In fact, anxiety about the effects of capitalist technology on labor is as old as [...]
Land and the Making of the Black Working Class
What is more remarkable than Miriam Makeba condensing thepolitical-economic history of South Africa into a song, is how smoothly racial capitalism naturalised the giant theft of labour power [...]
Land Expropriation without compensation
The land question has once again occupied the centre stage in the politics of South Africa. While Economic Freedom Fighters are credited with bringing the debate back to parliament and forcing [...]
Latin America and the rise of the right
The US wants to force out Maduro but its success is not guaranteed The bid to get rid of Maduro was not initially as successful as the coupplotters hoped. Imperial powers are vying for control of [...]
WHY SOCIALISTS SHOULD VOTE FOR THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTY
Socialists rarely abstain from actively participating in elections, despite our conviction that bourgeois parliaments represent an illusion of democracy. This is because elections provide a brief [...]
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE A vision is required
On Thursday 14th March, Cyclone Idai made landfall in southern Africa, leaving a trail of destruction behind it in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. As its path ripped through towns and villages, [...]
