Act against trolling, sexual harassment and abuse
Across the planet social media has been effectively exploited by the new set of authoritarian and often demagogic political leaders on the far right. Fake news is one important aspect of this.
Editorial and Analysis
India’s pro-imperialist, pro-business ruling party
In April and May roughly 850 million Indians go to the polls. In the first of a two-part series, activist Brinda Karat presents an overview of the far-right ruling party’s policies.
Blood in the backstreets
When impoverished people trying to access water or land are killed by the police, the whole of society is complicit in these contemptuous murders committed by the state.
Haitians take to the streets against imperialism
Unlike its government, the people of Haiti’s message to the US is simple: if you won’t let us breathe, we won’t let you breathe, and if you suffocate Venezuela, you suffocate us.
A new wave of farm evictions
Debates about land redress have incited new rounds of evictions, affecting thousands of farm workers who live in a state of fear and uncertainty.
‘Civil society’ is a mask for privilege in Venezuela
The organised white middle and upper classes in Venezuela are deemed “civil society” but when the darker-skinned, working-class majority organise they are labelled as “thugs”.
Caster Semenya and the IAAF witch-hunt
The association put the South African athlete through a humiliating gender-verification ordeal when she broke on to the circuit in 2009. Ten years later, not much has changed.
A short, uninspired budget speech
It was the briefest budget speech in years, all over in an hour. Was its brevity designed to speed past the bad news or to disguise the lack of good news?
A doomed order in the Arab world
Through butchery and sectarianism, the autocracies of the Arab world have survived this round. But in the long run, any order dependent on murder and bloodshed is doomed to collapse.
How Eskom can benefit people and the environment
Electricity must be seen as a social entitlement rather than a commodity, and ‘Eishkom’ should be central to an ambitious and equitable project of progressive social transformation.
A spark in the Sona tunnel
The Competition Amendment Bill is a valuable intervention that could help to break down monopolies. So why is Ramaphosa hesitating to sign it?
The casspir haunts our present
The purchase of casspirs, always a tool of colonial domination, to contain land occupations and road blockades in Durban offers a deeply disturbing insight into the state of the nation.
ANC need not ask for whom the bell of blame tolls
Why and how has South Africa’s post-1994 parliament developed an attitude of such deference to the executive? The answer is discomfiting, and lies within the ruling party itself.
Survivalism of the rich
The solution to global warming and other threats to survival is not to weatherproof the already privileged, but to fight for democratic and egalitarian politics that protect us all.
Reserve Bank head is steering us to economic ruin
The Reserve Bank governor has been making extraordinarily bad interest rate decisions, but will he be held to account and replaced when his term ends in October?
Zuma: Nine years of tainting and tweaking
Zondo commission evidence supports Jacob Zuma’s claims that his nine years as president were not wasted, but not in a good way.
Building democracy from below
The oppressed don’t need to be told they are dominated. They know. To gain democratic rights, they need to expand their power base through organisation.
India’s great wall of 5.5 million women
The world’s largest gathering of protesting women took place across Kerala in India to defend women’s rights to enter a temple, as sanctioned by India’s Supreme Court.
Party politics sinks into the xenophobia gutter
As electoral politics veers to the right across the world, South African politicians follow with election promises focused on combating ‘illegal immigration’.
Angelo Agrizzi’s capitalist capture
As more dirt is dished on the sleazy deals between Bosasa and government, Agrizzi reveals the rapacious heart of corruption.
Afro-pessimism can be defeated by an African Spring
Ordinary people in Africa are bringing to birth, by their own sweat and blood, just societies that oppose unethical and often murderous regimes.