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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 […]

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Arundhati Roy23 July 2026

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about. For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding […]

Bearing Witness in the Age of Generative AI

Koketso Moeti12 June 2026

Pushing back against the assault on verifiable reality is a crucial undertaking in the pursuit of justice. The advent of generative AI has made it even harder to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t, and also easy to claim what is real is fake. This threatens to undermine the very idea of “evidence,” which […]

How the 2027 Super El Niño Will Replicate the 1877 Global Famine

Sarah Connor12 June 2026

In the spring of 2026, oceanographers began tracking a massive pulse of warm water moving eastward beneath the surface of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. This subsurface Kelvin wave, an ocean gravity wave that moves eastward along the equator and transports massive volumes of warm water, is now breaching the surface, signaling the rapid onset of […]

Marxist theory and the global ecological crisis

Ian Angus22 May 2026

Martin Empson, author of Socialism or Extinction, asked me four questions about my new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2026). Here are his questions and my answers. A lightly edited version was published in Socialist Worker on May 17. Your new book is centred on the multiple environmental crises caused by capitalism. How […]

Iran Between the Russian and Chinese Models

Gilbert Achar5 May 2026

Iran is trending toward a model similar to that of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, based on militarization and rentierism, in stark contrast to the Chinese model favoured by the reformists. Donald Trump claimed to pursue “regime change” in Iran, but in a manner distinct from the George W. Bush administration’s use of the term to justify […]

Back to the Stone Ages

Charlie Kimber7 April 2026

In his book, Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost, Joe Allen analyses why President Lyndon Johnson decided on all-out war in Vietnam rather than make a deal that was on offer with nationalist forces. He writes, “The Johnson administration chose war because anything less than a total victory of U.S. imperialism would be seen […]

Zionism, anti-Semitism and eugenics

Terry Bell31 March 2026

The conflation of the religio-nationalist ideology of Zionism not only with Judaism and the nation state of Israel, but also with antisemitism, continues to be widely promoted. Yet the terminology and the manner of its use grew out of the pseudoscientific racism that flourished in the 19th Century. This came in response to the humanist […]

Pilgrimage For Palestine – April 4th 2026

ZASO31 March 2026

France: Polarisation, fascism and local elections

John Mullen31 March 2026

In the middle of the most comprehensive smear campaign against the radical Left that France has seen for the last 50 years, this month’s municipal elections are key struggles for fascists and antifascists alike. John Mullen examines the first round on 15th March, which saw a strong showing for the radical Left and worrying steps […]

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