Category: Comment & Analysis

Although the working class entered the democratic era without its own independent workers party, socialism and the yearning for such a party survived the SACP’s onslaught. As the end of…

“What has developed in South Africa is a very powerful tradition of popular or populist politics. The role of the great political movements such as the ANC and the Congress…

Part 1 The messages emanating from the various annual commemorative Marikana massacre events rightly denounced the bloodletting on the day as the ANC’s worst act of suppression since the Sharpeville…

The following thesis on perspectives for world capitalism was agreed at the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to…

The Marxist Workers Party commends the strong turn out of the social movements and organisations that came out in solidarity with Kopanong Africa, Abahlali baseMhjondolo, the Inner-City Federation and the…

We republish the article we produced to mark the 69th anniversary of the Freedom Charter. In our view, it retains its validity and requires no more than a few additional…

Trump’s simultaneously economic and political offensive against SA is not unique. It is US imperialism’s modus operandi against a legion of countries. The political attacks on SA have not fallen…

We republish below the statement we published on the tenth anniversary of the Youth Uprising of 1976. It is accompanied by an introduction to an analysis of the crisis facing…

Originally appeared in Inqaba Ya Basebenzi No. 21-22 (September 1986) under the pen name Basil Hendrickse. by Weizmann Hamilton At about 7 am on 16 June, 1976, thousands of African school…

by Shahar Benhorin, Socialist Struggle Movement, Israel-Palestine The Netanyahu–Trump gang is expanding regional conflagration in service of the occupation and the rule of capital Advance broad protest, refusal, and strike…