Solidarity Struggles – Zabalaza for Socialism

Ratanda: Two Residents Die After Water Protest, Community Calls for Mayor to Step Down

Siyafana Sonke Campaign7 July 2026

Ratanda, a working-class township south of Heidelberg in Gauteng’s Lesedi Local Municipality, has water again. Water has returned. Katleho Mokoena and Sipho Motaung will not. Katleho Mokoena (23) died after police confronted residents protesting weeks of water shortages on Wednesday, 1 July. Sipho Motaung later died in hospital from injuries sustained during the same protests. […]

INPUT BY SAFTU GENERAL SECRETARY ZWELINZIMA VAVI AT THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION SEMINAR

Zwelinzima Vavi7 July 2026

THIRTY-TWO YEARS OF DEMOCRACY: A WORKING-CLASS ASSESSMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION Comrades, colleagues, leaders of the movement, intellectuals, veterans of the struggle, and fellow South Africans,I must begin by locating myself.I am not speaking here as a neutral observer.I am not speaking as an academic standing outside the battle.I speak as a trade unionist.I […]

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. […]

TOWARDS A CONFERENCE OF THE LEFT: THOSE MAKING THE CALL NEED TO ANSWER CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Brian Ashley14 May 2026

South Africa is living through a deepening social crisis. Unemployment, inequality, hunger, state decay, ecological destruction, and violence continue to define everyday life for millions. The political formations that once claimed to represent the aspirations of the working class have lost legitimacy, while the Right – both neoliberal and authoritarian – has grown stronger. In […]

The Architecture of Continuity: How One Magistrate’s Gavel Speaks for a Whole System

Suliman Rajah21 April 2026

A single sentencing in April 2026 reveals the apartheid logic still running through South Africa’s courts, its water pipes, its power grid, its housing policies, and its hospitals. I. The Core Argument The April 2026 sentencing of Julius Malema is not an aberration. It is not the act of a single biased magistrate. It is […]

Returning to Biko: Black Consciousness in a Time of Tribalism and Xenophobia

Tshezi Azania Soxujwa7 April 2026

We are living in a dangerous time in our occupied Azania. Across townships and communities, we are seeing the rise of tribalism and xenophobia. People are turning against each other South African against “foreigner,” one tribe against another while claiming that others are stealing jobs or bringing drugs.But if we return to Steve Biko, we […]

Oupa Lehulere, Renowned South African Marxist

James Kilgore3 February 2026

I FIRST MET Oupa Lehulere in 1992. He took a job at Khanya College where I was the coordinator. At that historical moment, the foundation of post-apartheid South Africa was being laid. It was an incredibly challenging, complicated, often confusing time. Oupa helped us make sense of it. He was the right person in the […]

Selective Bombs and Selective Grief: Empire, Muslim Suffering and the Imperial Logic of War in Nigeria

Lawan Musa Danlami (Baba Lawan)23 January 2026

If the United States were truly motivated by the protection of Nigerian Christians, its actions would follow the geography of human suffering. But they do not. Instead, what we see is a familiar imperial pattern: war waged selectively, morality applied unevenly, and suffering acknowledged only when it aligns with strategic interest. Numerically, most victims of […]

Iran, Imperialism and the Left: Why We Must Stand With Struggle From Below

Admin15 January 2026

Please note the following opinion piece has been written prior to the likely US military intervention in Iran. We must be absolutely clear that US military intervention has nothing to do with support for the oppressed masses in Iran. The US has been and is intent on making Iran a client state of US imperialism […]

Build solidarity with the people of Venezuela. Reject US imperialist aggression

ZASO5 January 2026

ZASO unequivocally condemns the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president, Nicolás Maduro. We call on the South African government to denounce this violation of the UN Charter and to demand the release of the kidnapped president and his wife immediately. The South African government must use every diplomatic avenue to isolate […]

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