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Africa was the last region of the world to be sucked into the pandemic and thus far appears to be the least affected. By mid-April the total number of recorded Covid-19 cases in sub Saharan [...]

1. The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is generally presented as a “natural disaster”, an “external shock” to the normal functioning of the capitalist system. But this is quite untrue. There [...]

The broad sense of disappointment in post-apartheid South Africa is not just a matter of sentiment. It’s an undeniable fact that millions are unemployed and millions languish in poverty. The most [...]

We can no longer turn a blind eye to this epidemic. The three largest metropolitans in the country are seeing an overwhelming rise in homelessness with Johannesburg CBD accounting for about [...]

The bushfires in Australia are now so big that they are generating their own weather, in the form of giant thunderstorms that start more fires. They have burned six times the size of the 2019 [...]

With huge anti-government movements erupting across the globe, Sadie Robinson looks the root cause of these protests and how these struggles have the potential to win An ­inspiring wave of [...]

A brutal show of force from the Metropolitan police on Saturday saw cops swoop in on one of Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) warehouses, confiscate equipment and arrest activists. Ten rebels were [...]

More than 6 million people took part in protests and strikes demanding global action to end the climate crisis, during a “Global Week for the Future”. This took place across 4,500 cities and [...]

Joint statement of International Socialist Tendency organisations in Africa International Socialists across the African continent categorically condemn the wave of xenophobic violence which [...]

Karl Marx argued that capitalism was a system that distorts humanity’s relationship to the environment The famous quote “As Nero fiddles Rome burns” is very appropriate to the ANC government of [...]