South Africa

by Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary
Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party Vows to Resist South African Government’s Privatization Move
06 Feb 2019
The new party insists that transition to renewable energy must be driven by the working class, not for capitalist profit.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 27, 2019
29 Jan 2019
MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New South African Party to “Overthrow Capitalism”
29 Jan 2019
Irvin Jim, leader of South Africa’s largest union, told a People’s Forum audience in New York City that the newly formed Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party is not “another refor
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Poverty Criminalized in “Shackland” South Africa
21 Jan 2019
Twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, 5.2 million South Africans live in urban shack settlements that are unfit for human habitation, said anthropologist Kerry Chance, auth
Patrick Bond
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
09 Jan 2019
The old guard of South Africa’s ruling party put on new clothes last year, and a new party of the working class finally made its debut.
Nombuso Mathibela
The Land Question: Unpacking Expropriation Without Compensation in South Africa
04 Jul 2018
“Pay no one for land acquired illegally.”
Musawenkosi Cabe
In South Africa, channelizing Marx Towards Building a United Front
09 May 2018
“The union understands that it will have to go beyond theory and mobilize the working class.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
ANC Tried to Purge Winnie Mandela
08 May 2018
Winnie Mandela, the political activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela who died last month at age 81, “became a target for her unwavering support of the ideas contained in the Freedom Charter,” s
Dennis Webster
Rural Workers Mobilized in South African General Strike
01 May 2018
“’Land and the hunger for land’ is uniting rural and urban workers.”
Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan
“They Eat Money”: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption
18 Apr 2018
“Corruption has whittled away at virtually every institution in the country.”