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The magnificent women’s protests in Cape Town in early September 2019 were a raging fire of hope in a dark time. The rape and murder of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana should once and for all put [...]

The independence of the public protector only goes as far as their failure to seriously challenge whoever is in power. Socialists are under pressure to take a side in the recent uproar over the [...]

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 [...]

Claire Ceruti interviews Thabo Zondo I joined ABI in 1987. I worked for ten years without promotion, the reason being I was an activist in the township In my early days, I changed many things. [...]

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 SACP’s latest strategy document is called: “Going to the root: a radical second phase of the National Democratic Revolution” (October 2014). The parts of the document which are radical are [...]