South Africa

BRICS Brazil summit

Why are the BRICS countries not condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza?

Eric Toussaint analyses the practical policies of the BRICS countries and the institutions they have established towards Israel and its genocide in Gaza.
SACP

South Africa: Can the SACP help rebuild a democratic, militant left?

Brian Ashley — The South African Communist Party’s decision to stand candidates represents a potential step in re-conquering working-class independence.
Newsapaper stand in Nottinghamshire, UK April 2025.

Trump tariffs and US imperialism

Gillian Hart — Beneath the turmoil of Trump’s tariff blitz lies a battle between technocrats, ultranationalists and anti-imperial populists, all vying to reshape, or destroy, US global power.
Africa placard rally

The state of Africa in the new world (dis)order

Will Shoki — Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order.
US President Donald Trump dances on stage after speaking at a campaign rally at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville. Source: AAP

This changes everything: The threat of Trumpism for South Africa

Amandla! Collective — The second coming of Trump has started to reconfigure the international political architecture that emerged after World War II. This has profound implications for countries both in the global North and South.
Protestors burn a Frelimo flag. Shorn of its former radicalism, Frelimo was embroiled in one corruption scandal after another. But its continued control of the Electoral Commission has ensured that the provinces and the capital, Maputo, would stay in its hands.

The Mozambican people enter the political realm

Rehad Desai — A potted history of Mozambique’s ruling party is required to help fully grasp why the country is unravelling, creating an uprising of discontent.
Police barricade during a demonstration on the corner of Eduardo Mondlane and Amílcar Cabral avenues in Maputo, two of the main leaders of former Portuguese African colonies´ independence. November 7th, 2024. Image © Marilio Wane.

The crisis of African liberators

Marílio Wane — As Mozambique nears 50 years of independence, its ruling party clings to power amid political turmoil, contested elections, and growing public discontent. Is this the beginning of a new struggle for liberation?
Trevor Ngwane

Trevor Ngwane: ‘Barbarism is no longer an abstraction. We can see it right in front of our eyes’

Trevor Ngwane — Rosa Luxemburg said the sharpening of the class struggle in the context of a rolling capitalist crisis would soon put a stark choice before humanity: socialism or barbarism? That moment has come.
Illustration by Shehzil Malik

Geopolitics of genocide: An interview with Rafeef Ziadah

Rafeef Ziadah — The genocide in Gaza lays bare the harsh realities of modern geopolitics, highlighting the mechanisms of power in a world shaped by imperial ambitions and the strategic exploitation of resources.
Zabalaza for Socialism

Zabalaza for Socialism: South Africa on the precipice — Rebuilding power and renewing hope amid crisis and collapse

Zabalaza for Socialism — Without rebuilding solidarity and addressing the root causes of this collapse, South Africa risks descending further into chaos, where survival is marked by despair and violence.
Ban South Africa coal exports to Israel

From South Africa to Syria: The rising perils for Palestine solidarity

Patrick Bond — The sudden overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria comes at a time that poses profound challenges for solidarity with Palestine in South Africa.
South African workers

South Africa: The populist threat and the response of the left

Amandla! — The ANC-DA Alliance is more deeply committed to neoliberalism than even its predecessors. The need for a consolidated voice of the working class and the poor is greater than ever.

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