[Ciarán Slemon & Victor Murray Vedsø, 27 July 2026] Over the past three months, a wave of xenophobic demonstrations, attacks and killings against migrants has swept South Africa. Shops have been looted, foreigners chased out of their homes, while more than 160,000 people have been forced to flee the country in fear for their lives. […]
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[Shanti Stewart – 15 June 2026] 50 years ago, the Soweto Uprising was the expression of the deep contradictions of South African capitalism under apartheid: poverty, racial oppression, cheap labour, state violence, and a school system designed to regenerate racial oppression. Today, apartheid has fallen, but what has been gained for the youth? It began […]
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[Ben Kotze, 26 May 2026] What is your political ideology? Most people today will answer “I do not have one”, or maybe “common sense”. But the fact is that they, consciously or subconsciously, share certain ideas of how society should work. Today, that includes democracy, the state, the law, and some set of rights that […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com, 8 May 2026] The relevance of Trotsky’s Transitional Program in South Africa today could not be more pressing. After 32 years of formal democracy, the working class and its organisations have been consistently demobilised under the pretence that their demands are represented by the liberation leaders who are in power (ANC […]
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[Shanti Stewart, 27 April 2026] On 16 April 2026 Julius Malema, the Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), received a five-year “immediate” jail sentence (subject to an appeal process that could take years) in addition to fines and a further suspended sentence for firing a gun at a political rally in 2018. […]
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Jorge Martín, 13 April 2026 – originally published on marxist.com] On 10 April, Easter Saturday, 1993, South African Communist Party (SACP) leader and chief of staff of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African National Congress’s (ANC) armed wing, Chris Hani, was assassinated. Hani was one of the most popular mass leaders of the revolutionary anti-apartheid movement, second […]
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Jorge Martín, 25 March 2026 [Originally Published at marxist.ca] The oil blockade decreed by Trump on 29 January is slowly but surely asphyxiating Cuba, which relies on oil imports for 60 percent of its energy production. The Cuban government has admitted talks are taking place with the United States, but these take place in conditions […]
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Jorge Martín and Ben Curry, 5 March 2026 [Originally published on marxist.com] Drunk with success in Venezuela, Trump thought that the same methods could be used to force Iran to submit. Either a threatening naval force encircling the country would lead to capitulation, or a short sharp decapitation strike would produce regime change through the […]
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[Alan Woods, 28 February 2026 – Originally Published on marxist.com] In the morning of Saturday 28 February, Tehran was shaken by a series of loud explosions as US and Israeli missiles struck the capital of Iran. Clouds of smoke were also seen rising from Tehran, Qom and other Iranian cities, announcing the commencement of war. […]
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[Adam Booth, 21 November 2025 – originally published on marxist.com] The history of capitalism is littered with bubbles: periods in which over-excited investors pour their money into ultimately worthless ventures – from the Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s, to the South Sea and Mississippi frenzies of 1720, to today’s cryptocurrency craze. The above examples are […]
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