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March and March Plan to Attack Refugees Again on Thursday

Refugee Community Che Guevara Road Camp Durban9 September 2026

Last Thursday March and March attacked us – all documented refugees – who have been forced to live on Che Guevara Road since 22 May. We spent the whole winter living outside on the road after being forced from our homes and having our businesses seized or destroyed by fascist mobs. Two of us have […]

Violence at Che Guevara Road: March and March and eThekwini Municipality must account for Section 4 permits on 3rd and 4th September 2026

Siyafana Sonke Campaign7 September 2026

On the 3rd of September 2026, members of the March and March movement crossed Che Guevara Road in Umbilo, Durban, and directly confronted a community of documented refugees and asylum seekers who have been sheltering on the pavement outside the Department of Home Affairs Refugee Reception Office for approximately three months. What followed was hours […]

The biggest oil heist in world history? US grabs Venezuela’s oil reserves

Jorge Martin31 August 2026

On 28 August, in a social media post, Trump announced what he described as “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” by which the US takes majority control over 65 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela. That was followed by a shameful grovelling message by Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez in which she tried to frame […]

From xenophobia to authoritarian politics

Koketso Moeti31 August 2026

This year marks 50 years since the 1976 youth uprising, a turning point in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid. While triggered by the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in schools, it would result in the creation of a new social force that birthed new movements of resistance and emancipatory politics. The anniversary serves as […]

Whatever Happened to the ‘Enough Is Enough’ Campaign?

Joe Todd27 August 2026

‘The biggest political fumble of my life.’ On Wednesday 7 September 2022, Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket was packed out. Hundreds of people had queued around the block for the city’s biggest leftwing rally in years. Mark Thomas, a local homelessness worker, remembered being excited. “It was absolutely massive… It was something new,” he told Novara Media. […]

Adam Habib and the Politics of Opportunism

Ziyad Motala21 August 2026

There is something almost touching about Adam Habib’s faith in Helen Zille. https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2026-08-18-only-zille-can-save-joburg-ex-wits-vc-habib-says-da-mayoral-candidate-perfect-for-the-job/ Johannesburg, he tells us, can apparently be rescued by one woman. If Zille does not secure an overall majority, he warns, not merely Johannesburg but “the city and South Africa are doomed.” For the job of mayor, he pronounces her “perfect.” Perfect […]

FROM HUMANITARIANISM TO ORGANISED SOLIDARITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AFROPHOBIA

Keep Left20 August 2026

Claire Ceruti and Luke Sinwell Families sleep outside embassies and consulates wrapped in blankets against the winter cold. Beside them are plastic bags, suitcases and the few possessions they managed to carry from homes they may never return to. They are commonly described as people “returning home” or being “repatriated”. But these phrases conceal a […]

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT VICTORY MUST MARK A TURNING POINT FOR MINING-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES: GOVERNMENT CANNOT NOW LEGISLATE BACKWARDS

MACUA & WAMUA20 August 2026

Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) welcomes and celebrates the Constitutional Court’s landmark judgment in Sustaining the Wild Coast NPC and Others v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others; Natural Justice and Another v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others. The judgment represents an important victory not only for the […]

Is Afrophobia a simplistic framing?

Socialist Voice Newsletter of the Marxist Group of Namibia18 August 2026

A left-wing view does not say xenophobia in South Africa is “naturally” Africanist or that “black” people are inherently united. It says xenophobia is a product of racial capitalism, township political economy, state rhetoric, and social fragmentation — and its racialised pattern of targets reflects material conditions, not essential identities. The term “Afrophobia” is analytically […]

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 […]

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