The 1955 Congress of the People & the Freedom Charter
Blueprint for socialism or capitalism? One year ahead of the 70th anniversary of the congress of the people, the political landscape has been changed decisively […]
Capitalism’s ANC Crisis
ANC CONGRESS | No Help for South Africa’s Working Class
The ANC’s December congress re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as party leader. The ruling class faces a crisis of political representation. This is ultimately a product of the crisis of capitalism and sharp tensions between the classes.
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2021 | Working Class DEMANDS a Political Alternative
The 2021 local government elections (LGE21) outcome marks the end of an era. For the first time since 1994 the ANC, the “party of liberation” has crashed below 50%. The working class has punished the ANC in successive elections over the last decade, but never like this before.
Ramaphosa, Diko, the ANC and the Rise of the ‘Covidpreneurs’
The very system of tenders, whether they are technically corrupt or not, involves a massive diversion of wealth away from the working class and poor.
The Ramaphosa Presidency
Ramaphosa’s government is a bosses’ government through to its bone marrow. Ramaphosa’s first budget ensured that the poor and the working class will pay the main price for capitalism’s failures.
Zuma Ousted
Inside two months following his election as ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa has realised the ambition he reportedly set himself whilst still at high school – to become the country’s president.
2017 ANC Conference
Irrespective of the outcome of a possible court process, however, the ANC’s 54th national conference has failed spectacularly to resolve the underlying divisions in the factional war for control of the ANC.
Local Elections Message – Need For a Mass Working Class Party
3 August 2016, will go down at an electoral level, as a turning point in the ANC’s post apartheid history – a point at which the arrow of its political fortunes is now firmly pointing south.
The 2016 Local Government Elections
The 3 August local government elections come against the background of the worst crisis the ruling capitalist class has faced since the ANC came to power.
