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The death of politics in South Africa.

Zwelinzima Vavi11 February 2026
We are underestimating the devastating impact of the death of politics in South Africa. Not politics as elections, conferences or speeches, but politics as the conscious, organised participation of ordinary people in shaping their collective future. We have never honestly analysed how the “big man” phenomenon hollowed out our democratic culture. The towering moral authority […]

Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal

Chris Hedges11 February 2026
I don’t expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs. They live in narcissistic and hedonistic bubbles that cater to their self-worship and moral depravity. But I do expect a lot from intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky. The explanation by his wife Valéria – Noam suffered […]

Mazibuko Jara | Why the SACP needs to focus beyond the Alliance

Mazibuko Jara3 February 2026
Dinga Sikwebu’s article in last week’s City Press (“SACP’s umms and ahhs: Holes in motivations to contest elections”, Sun 18 Jan 2026, https://www.news24.com/citypress/voices/dingwa-sikwebu-sacps-umms-and-ahhs-holes-in-motivations-to-contest-elections-20260117-1174) lands a necessary challenge: the SACP’s decision to contest the 2026 local government elections is politically significant, but it currently reads as a half-step — an “umming and ahhing” posture that may […]

Alex Callinicos: Is the United States turning to fascism? With aggression abroad and repression at home, Donald Trump’s drive to centralise power in his hands is undeniable

Alex Callinicos28 January 2026
It’s hardly surprising that social media is full of claims that fascism now reigns in the United States. Since 2026 began, two features of fascist regimes have been very visible. On one the hand, aggression abroad—the violent kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores in Venezuela, the threats of military action against Iran and Greenland. […]

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 […]

Iran: Regime Change or Leader Change

Saeed Rahnema28 January 2026
Iran is once again in turmoil. Street uprisings have shaken the very foundations of the clerical regime, and its apparatus of repression is brutally killing unarmed demonstrators. The current movement shares both similarities and differences with the previous mass movement of 2022, Woman / Life / Freedom. That earlier movement was primarily social and cultural in […]

Zabalaza for Socialism: New Year Message for 2026

ZASO7 January 2026
Another world is not only possible — it is necessary and urgent We enter a new year in a time of deep crisis and danger. In South Africa, the state under the Government Of National Unity dominated by the ANC continues to fail and collapse. Basic services are crumbling, corruption and patronage flourish, unemployment and […]

Neoliberalism Deepened under the Guise of “Structural Reform”

ZASO21 November 2025
Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO) condemns the 2025 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) as a ruthless extension of neoliberal austerity and pro-business restructuring. What the government and Treasury call “structural reform” is in reality a full-scale offensive against workers and the poor. The MTBPS entrenches the conservative Growth and Inclusion (GAIN) framework — a policy designed […]
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