What do Marxists fight for?

South African society is riddled with contradictions. Everywhere one looks today the organic crisis of capitalism is having a devastating impact on the lives of millions of working people. On the one hand, nearly 8 million people of working age are unemployed in the country. On the other hand, the gap between rich and poor […]

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 Syria: Erdogan’s manoeuvre backfires

Syria: Erdogan’s manoeuvre backfires

As we have stated previously, the downing of a Russian jet in Syria by the Turkish military was clearly a provocation on the part of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His aim was to stop an alliance being formed between Russia and the West in Syria. He has achieved the opposite with Turkey now more […]

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 Nigeria: Buharinomics – halfway measures can’t solve the crisis

Nigeria: Buharinomics – halfway measures can’t solve the crisis

As the third wave of global crisis of capitalism is approaching – the first and second waves being respectively the sub-prime housing and European sovereign debt crises – the so-called emerging and developing economies are entering deeper into economic, political and economic crisis. Nigeria connects to this global crisis through the mechanism of the global […]

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Why the youth should study the ideas of Karl Marx

This year  marks 132 years since the death of Karl Marx. Marx had profound influence on the course of human history and his ideas are more relevant today than they were when he was alive. In the words of his collaborator and comrade,Friedrich Engels: “His name will endure through the ages, and so also will his […]

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