Editorial

EDITORIAL: 2024: WAKE UP CALL FOR THE LEFT

EDITORIAL: 2024: WAKE UP CALL FOR THE LEFT

THE COMING 2024 NATIONAL AND provincial elections are the most significant since the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once again there is no credible left-wing or anti-capitalist force contesting. By all accounts, the ANC is not likely to win an outright majority, and new...

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HOUSE THE PEOPLE AND BUILD THE ECONOMY

HOUSE THE PEOPLE AND BUILD THE ECONOMY

NOBODY WHO LOOKS AROUND South Africa's cities and towns can deny that we have the most acute housing crisis. Shack settlements constantly increase in number. New land is occupied. Shacks burn down and are rebuilt. Even entire apartment blocks burn down. The endless...

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ORGANISE AND RESIST AUSTERITY!

ORGANISE AND RESIST AUSTERITY!

FROM A CLASS PERSPECTIVE, resisting austerity is the most important struggle that needs to be waged. It is poor and working-class people who rely on state services. With every cut in the budgets of social security, health, education, housing, policing, land reform...

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