Politics

On September 26–29, 2022, COSATU convened its 14th National Congress. This congress happened during a period in which the working class was facing multiple attacks from the ANC Government and the [...]

We shouldn’t grieve for a dead queen. We should remember the victims of her empire. Murder, rape, ­pillage, famine, partition and exploitation. These are the legacy of the British [...]

Greenwash and lies cause disaster, while government promotes coal and methane Floods have again ravaged South Africa’s third-largest city, Durban, killing at least 300 residents on Monday, [...]

I would like to say that FW De Klerk’s death left me cold, to borrow a phrase, but in truth, it was an emotional moment. I was enraged, frustrated and grumpy that he died without ever facing [...]

The crisis over Ukraine has brought Europe closer to a terrifying war. In its essence it is a conflict between the most powerful imperialist bloc in the world, the United States and its European [...]

The truth is, capitalism in South Africa uses the principle of economic war on Immigrants to shift local citizens’ attention from the heart of the problem. The true nature of that problem is that [...]

By Leonard Gentle “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto“, “I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.” Terence (ex-African Slave turned Roman playwright [...]

Climate change is probably the most talked about topic in the world today, even in spite of the scourge of Covid 19 which has literally brought the world to a stand-still. As is well established, [...]

Since the pandemic, we’ve heard several government officials saying that the ‘township economy’ is ‘vital to South Africa’s recovery’. Following a xenophobic clause in the Gauteng government’s [...]

Keep left statement What started as a protest against the arrest of former African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma has turned into the most extreme looting ever imagined in our [...]