The Electoral College in the United States also plays an important role in the demobilisation of voters and social movements.
Can we vote away fascism in the US?
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National dialogue an opportunity for business to reset in favour of broader social good
The low level of active endorsement of the political elite by the majority of eligible voters is a legitimacy crisis.
Following a crushing defeat: Is ANC-DA coalition stabilising or aggravating?
THE ANC’s PRECIPITOUS electoral decline by a whopping 17 percentage points, from 57% to 40% in the general elections, has sent shockwaves throughout the political system in South Africa. It has reduced ANC’s seats in the National Assembly from 230 to 159 and ended its...
Sweden’s Left Party, Vänsterpartiet, celebrates its biggest win in 20 years
After winning over 11 percent of the vote, and two mandates, in June’s European Parliament elections, the Swedish Left Party Vänsterpartiet is celebrating its best election results in twenty years. The historic result brought the party a step closer to fulfilling...
ELECTION YEAR: The Global Context
2024 has been the ultimate election year. By the end of this year, more voters than ever in recorded history will head to the polls in at least 64 countries. Over half of the world’s population will be involved. In just the last three months alone, pivotal elections...
ELECTIONS 2024: IT’S TIME FOR THE LEFT TO TALK
Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.
ELECTIONS 2024: IT’S TIME FOR THE LEFT TO TALK
In the feature of this issue we: Look back on the election and what messages the results contain; Look forward to life with the GNU and what it will mean for the majority of poor and working-class South Africans; and Look at the opportunities and challenges for the...
It’s wrong to assume that SA has credible leadership
Retired trade unionist Dinga Sikwebu’s characterisation of the current political situation as a stalemate — and therefore a basis for the much-vaunted national dialogue and social compact — fatally assumes that we have a political elite and business class with...
Beyond the GNU and its deceits: the poverty of analysis
More than 60% of those who have the right to vote in South Africa responded with deafening indifference or calculated rejection to the recent parliamentary electoral process. They simply did not think that the ‘democratic’ election had any meaning in their lives. And...