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Why Trump is Going Down

Jonathan Nancy8 October 2026

JONATHAN NEALE writes One way or another, Trump is going down. This article explains why. And at the end, I look briefly at the consequences, mainly for the United States and Israel. Here’s one straw in the wind: On July 18 Vice-President J. D. Vance said on Joe Rogan’s show that Jeffrey Epstein’s operation may […]

EURIPIDES, WOMEN AND SLAVERY: GENDER TRANSGRESSION IN ANCIENT GREECE

Jonathan Nancy6 October 2026

Jonathan Neale writes: We start with a theatre, and two moments of astonishing gender transgression. One happened in a theatre on a hillside in the center of Athens on a spring day in late March of 431 BCE. The second happened there sixteen years later, in March of 415 BCE. Both took place as the audience […]

Defend Xolani Khoza!

Committee to Defend Xolani Khoza30 September 2026

Spartacist/South Africa photo Xolani Khoza (centre) with supporters outside Mbombela courthouse, 29 August 2025. 22 SEPTEMBER 2026—Following a 2-year delay by the prosecution, the trial of Xolani Khoza, an EFF member and community activist from Pienaar township in Enhlanzeni, will begin on 14 October. While Xolani will be the one sitting in the dock, this trial […]

Don’t surrender to the bond markets!

Charlie Kimber29 September 2026

“Don’t surrender to the bond markets!”, is an audio/video recording published by Charlie Kimber on his Substack newsletter. It addresses political and economic pressures exerted by financial markets—specifically bond markets—on government policy and public spending. It argues against giving in to market demands for austerity or spending cuts, calling for political resistance to financial market pressures. Check […]

Years of underfunding have undermined SA’s fight against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF)

Jaco Oelefsen and Aliya Chiktey21 September 2026

As the country mourns the victims of a possible serial murderer in Ekurhuleni, AIDC shows how inadequate funding and years of austerity are failing women in South Africa. Last year, the government found R339 million for VIP services to protect 3 666 politicians, but this year only R43 million was put towards the national body meant to coordinate […]

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 […]

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