Solidarity Struggles – Zabalaza for Socialism

High school mobilization: popular neighborhoods at the forefront

Ulysses Rabaté8 October 2026

Ulysse Rabaté, a political science researcher at the University of Paris-8 and co-founder of the Quidam association for popular education, considers that high school mobilization already represents a tipping point in contemporary French political life. Let’s say it right away: the movement of high school students that has crossed the country in recent days is impressive. Its […]

SPAIN UPDATE: Mass mobilisations for housing rights over the weekend. A clamour for a general strike. Sanchez to call early election.

Jorge Martin8 October 2026

[This is a follow up of the previous report about the explosion of anger after the eviction of 87 year old Maricarmen in Madrid, and the political consequences, which you can read here: https://www.facebook.com/jorge.martin.1917/posts/pfbid0gycZWVVqkNrKrTduaZCJN7yDGNMHW7WA9daGSVc6sBsPyNMEkraXJyM9aMYZyCcWl ] Over the weekend there have been mass demonstrations across Spain, the largest one being in Madrid on October 3, with […]

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 […]

PREJUDICE-BASED VIOLENCE AND THE WEDELA TAVERN MASSACRE

Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA)29 September 2026

PRESS STATEMENTSOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIA [SOPA] The Socialist Party of Azania condemns in the strongest terms the mass shooting in Wedela last night, where gunmen opened fire on tavern patrons and 17 people were killed. We send our deepest condolences to the families, friends, and community of Wedela. To those injured and traumatized, we stand […]

SABC Apologised. The Platforms Never Have To

Michael Markovitz28 September 2026

A ruling in South Africa last week shows what voluntary media accountability looks like. No such thing exists for large digital platforms. A South African national radio station has been ordered to apologise on air for broadcasting a string of false claims about foreign nationals that it never bothered to challenge. That happened because one […]

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 […]

Be Vigilant

Vashna Jagarnath17 September 2026

What the Murder of Women Reveals About the World We Have Made Eight women’s bodies have now been found in Ekurhuleni, and the police have told women to ‘be vigilant’. Women keep returning to those words because they are an assault on the value of our personhood. We hardly need to be taught vigilance. Most […]

The Collapse of COSATU’s 15th National Congress in Midrand

ZASO17 September 2026

Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO) notes with deep concern the collapse of COSATU’s 15th National Congress in Midrand, an outcome that could not have come at a worse moment for South Africa’s working classes and the poor. This Congress mattered because it convened at a moment when multiple crises are tearing the country apart. Mass unemployment […]

More than 200 Refugees Now Sheltering in Stella Park

Refugee Community Che Guevara Road Camp Durban17 September 2026

Today around half of the refugees who had been living on Che Guevara Road since 22 May boarded buses to travel to Lindela, the notorious prison used to hold undocumented migrants prior to deportation. They have been given no clarity at all on what their future will now hold, or on what, if any, plans […]

PRESS STATEMENT – Siyafana Sonke Action Campaign

Siyafana Sonke Campaign10 September 2026

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