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At war with fourth estate
02 Mar 2017
The left needs more weapons in its armoury than street demonstrations, argues Paul Demarty
Scapegoating foreigners
02 Mar 2017
Cosatu calls for tighter immigration controls in response to township violence. Peter Manson reports
What kind of oppression?
26 Jan 2017
Peter Manson reports on presidential rivals, changing political alliances and apartheid’s ongoing legacy
Reaping the harvest
15 Dec 2016
Al Nusra are not brave rebels, writes Yassamine Mather. The jihadist group has been financed and directed by the west’s allies with the sole aim of bringing about regime change from above
An icon, but not a model
01 Dec 2016
Revolutionary, dictator - or both? Paul Demarty remembers Fidel Castro
A richly deserved defeat
10 Nov 2016
Trump’s victory is an indictment of shallow American liberalism, and it is time for the left to detach itself from it, argues Paul Demarty
Calling upon imperialism is complete madness
20 Oct 2016
Yassamine Mather delivered this opening to the October 16 CPGB and Labour Party Marxists aggregate
Syrian disaster
06 Oct 2016
The strategy of allying with the enemy of one’s enemy has plagued the Kurdish opposition for decades. But it is a road to nowhere, writes Yassamine Mather
Lock up the thugs
29 Sep 2016
Once more, the SACP finds itself on the wrong side of the class divide, writes Peter Manson
Bernstein’s assault on ‘orthodoxy’
22 Sep 2016
Marc Mulholland examines the revisionist attack on class politics and the three most important responses. Clearly this dispute was about more than ‘reform’ versus ‘revolution’
Time running out fast
08 Sep 2016
Capitalism is a system unfit to cope with the ecological crisis, writes Eddie Ford
ANC in disarray
08 Sep 2016
While the ruling party is riven by factions, writes Peter Manson, the SACP too is deeply divided
Sources, streams and confluence
25 Aug 2016
Ben Lewis offers some thoughts on the origins of democratic centralism
Voting for the right lizard
04 Aug 2016
Who’s afraid of president Trump? Not Paul Demarty
Life of a heroic traitor
04 Aug 2016
Jim Creegan looks back at the extraordinary story of Roger Casement on the 100th anniversary of his execution