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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 […]

Press Statement: CWAO opposes the new NEDLAC Amendment Act, 2025 – here’s why

Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO)11 December 2025

The new NEDLAC Amendment Bill strengthens an elitist, unaccountable institution that has consistently served capital’s interests. The working class should fight for NEDLAC to be closed down instead. Casual Workers’ Advice Office Press Statement1 December 2025 at 1pm Contact person: CWAO Researcher, Sydney Moshoaliba on 072 509 3587 CWAO opposes the new NEDLAC Amendment Act, […]

On Mamdani and the Invention of Foreigners

Ntsika Dapo11 December 2025

DEK: From indirect rule to Operation Dudula, the lines dividing citizen from stranger trace back to the way empire organized identity and labor. There’s no shortage of analysis when it comes to xenophobia in South Africa. We’ve heard it explained as the outcome of deep structural inequality, the failure of post-apartheid redistribution, or the slow-burning crisis […]

Can The Right Be Stopped?

Amandla27 November 2025

Amandla Magazine made it to 100 issues! Find the most recent issue here: Amandla! #100 Unfortunately, we arrived here in a period where the right-wing is rising around the world. So the feature in this issue focuses on the rise of the right and the challenge for the Left to resist. The editorial briefly looks back on […]

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 […]

Rage as Refusal: What punk can teach SA about resisting polite authoritarianism

Ali Ridha Khan6 November 2025

From Rage Against the Machine’s Hall of Fame speech to Bob Vylan, Hyphen and Mudrat, a new grammar of protest is traveling the globe. South Africa—where struggle soundtracks have long carried politics—should listen for its beat again. South Africa knows the sound of refusal. It’s in the toyi-toyi, the chant, the ululation at the picket […]

Crystal Joy Dicks. Some Episodes of a Life Remembered.

Stephen Faulkner29 October 2025

When the news broke that Comrade Crystal Dicks was no more, a palpable shudder went through significant sections of the local and international labour movement, through left and feminist circles and through all the organisations she encountered.

World Food or World Hunger Day (16 October)

Mercia Andrews29 October 2025

16 October is officially known as World Food Day because it marks the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. Each year, countries around the world observe this day to talk about food security and the right to food. The FAO consistently reminds governments that the Right to Food is a universal human right, not a privilege. Yet, despite these yearly reminders, growing numbers of poor and working-class people continue to go hungry, facing the indignity of begging for food, joining soup kitchens, or going without entirely.

The EU’s ‘Investment Package’ isn’t Aid — It’s guaranteed profit for private capital

Dominic Brown22 October 2025

The investment gap Over the past three decades, South Africa’s fixed investment — spending on physical assets such as factories, machinery, and infrastructure — has averaged just 16 percent of GDP. This is roughly half the average for upper-middle-income economies. Chronic underinvestment in the real economy, where most jobs are created, has contributed to the […]

Conservatism and democracy – the gulf between leaders and the working class

Zwelinzima Vavi20 October 2025

We must sound the alarm. Conservatism, distorted transformation, spatial cleansing, the collapse of faith in democracy and dangerous nostalgia are the fertile soil in which fascism grows.

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