The state and the ANC’s legacy within it
“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: protecting corporate interests at government expense!
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 [...]
The Public Protector VS The Presidency
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 [...]
Dear men: dump the trashiness, take up anti-sexism instead
The oppression of women persists in all class societies. Before class society, women had played a major role in early gathererhunter societies but with the rise of class they were driven out of [...]
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 [...]
International Socialist Tendency statement on the racist drive in Europe
1. The European Council meeting on 28 June marked a potentially very dangerous turning point in the racist drive against migrants in Europe. After Donald Trump’s election in November 2016 the [...]
Understanding Steve Biko: Race, Class and Struggle in South Africa – an interview with Mosa Phadi
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 [...]
Understanding Decolonisation today
There has been a loud outcry across the country about how universities now operate and what they teach and whether our curricula are relevant to us as students. Students and workers have been at [...]
The Turkish People defeated the Military coup
The International Socialist Tendency which Keep Left is a part of joins the people of Turkey in condemning the attempted military coup in that country. The plotters claim to have been defending [...]
Has #FeesMustFall itself fallen?
Fees Must Fall (FMF), the first social movement since 1994 to engage in mass national protests, has been reduced to a handful of students. Why is this? The protests were not spontaneous. They [...]
