Analysis – Zabalaza for Socialism

The Left’s Billionaire Problem

Vashna Jagarnath7 August 2026

Money, democratic control and the struggle over where power resides The growing political power of billionaires presents the left with a contradiction that it has not adequately confronted. The problem is not only that billionaires fund the right, purchase media platforms or use private wealth to influence governments. Very wealthy individuals and foundations are also […]

Shifting Political Terrain

Richard Pithouse24 July 2026

Every country gets the fascism that it deserves. The arrival of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), March and March and a set of allied organisations on the political stage is not just a matter of new forces emerging within the field of contestation. It is also an ongoing and rapid reconfiguration of the field. This […]

Stuck Between Promise and Reality

Suliman Rajah22 May 2026

Soup kitchens, long cold, dry and dark winters Why your local council can’t just make water and electricity free — and what communities can do instead South Africa’s Constitution says everyone has the right to enough water. It says local government must provide basic services fairly. Those are not empty words. They are binding promises. […]

Western Hemisphere: A History of the United States Written by War

Eric Toussaint13 April 2026

As the United States and Israel launched, starting on February 28, 2026, a new large-scale military aggression against Iran and Lebanon, while continuing the genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people and the annexation of the West Bank, it is important to analyze, from a historical perspective, the policy of the United States in the […]

The New World Order

Roger Silverman28 January 2026

The world today is in a more disturbed state than at any time in the last eight decades. The global structure that came into being after the Second World War had divided the world into three sharply defined sectors: the industrially developed capitalist countries (“the West” plus Japan); the Stalinist states (the USSR and its […]

Not a Rockhill to die on

John Rees6 January 2026

A lot of the spat on social media has to do with the pre-publication assessments of Rockhill’s work, but that has now widened out into a debate on his central contention that Western Marxism was to a significant degree a CIA-funded intellectual trend dedicated to smearing ‘actually existing communism’.

Can The Right Be Stopped?

Amandla27 November 2025

Amandla Magazine made it to 100 issues! Find the most recent issue here: Amandla! #100 Unfortunately, we arrived here in a period where the right-wing is rising around the world. So the feature in this issue focuses on the rise of the right and the challenge for the Left to resist. The editorial briefly looks back on […]

Metamorphosis of the revolutionary intellectual

Admin28 October 2025

Without repeating the cliché, let me sincerely say that that this is a great opportunity for me to converse with my fellow intellectuals in honour of Harold Wolpe. May I thank Wolpe posthumously for giving us an excuse for self-reflection.

Behind the Youth Revolt

Roland Ngam22 October 2025

The number of mostly spontaneous mass protests in Africa has grown exponentially since the start of the 2010s and yet, it still has not registered in many decisionmakers’ minds that a sea change is afoot in our political economy. Africa has the youngest population in the world. A rapid acceleration of quality service delivery is required to make Africans unite behind some kind of social contract and yet, nowhere is there any sign of the urgency that is required. This explains the growing anger that wee see in the population.

The Death of the Nobel Peace Prize

Atilio Boron21 October 2025

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado is the culmination of a long process of moral and political decay that has irreparably damaged the prize.

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