Comment & Analysis

The fragmentation of struggles—whether in education, labour, gender justice, or community resistance—has allowed the capitalist state to isolate and suppress dissent. The working class must […]

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMB) this year dismissed Senior Work Study Practitioner, Gayle Grootboom, and Municipal Media Liaison Officer, (municipal spokesperson), Kupido Baron on […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]