South Africa

 “The Communist Party sought to emphasize class distinctions, whilst the ANC seeks to harmonize them.” Nelson Mandela during the Rivonia Treason Trial. I came across this little jewel whilst [...]

The Counterfeit Goods Act protects the interests of trans-national corporations like Nike. The state spends public resources to implement it through raids on downtown sellers of alleged fake [...]

At this moment Caster Semenya stands to be discriminated against in the sporting fraternity because her body produces more testosterone than expected from a female body and it is seen as an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Black consciousness is an idea that works best in a racist white-supremacy capitalist setting. However, its interpretation today is very neo-liberal. You hear talk of ‘black excellence’ for [...]

How should socialists relate? The first thing that we must realise is that Zuma and his faction are attempting a repeat of what Mugabe and ZANU did in Zimbabwe – appear radical but in reality [...]

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 [...]