As we approach the end of 2025 and matric exams conclude, South Africa faces a deepening crisis in access to higher education. Youth unemployment remains alarmingly high—recent figures from Statistics South Africa estimate that over 59% of people aged 15–24 are unemployed. In this context, a university degree is increasingly seen as essential for improving […]
The suspension of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Head of Traffic and Licencing, Warren Prins on trumped-up charges, is a clear indication that the municipality’s disciplinary process is abused to eliminate skilled workers and tarnish their good names. Weizman Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party General Secretary and organiser of an international solidarity campaign to stop the unfair […]
South Africa is drowning in unemployment, poverty and inequality. Millions are desperate for work and services are collapsing while a narrow elite captures the spoils of public budgets and municipal contracts. The struggle against apartheid united the overwhelming majority across the racial and ethnic boundaries consciously constructed by the white minority regime as part of […]
Trade unionist and soldier of the working class with a lifelong commitment to socialism We express our deepest condolences to his wife, Suzanne, his former wife Trish, his children, his family as a whole, including his brothers Crispin and Jonathan. Suzanne and his stepdaughter Soraya supported him with unstinting dedication on his last journey after […]
The fragmentation of struggles—whether in education, labour, gender justice, or community resistance—has allowed the capitalist state to isolate and suppress dissent. The working class must respond with unity, clarity, and organisation. The formation of sectoral movements is not merely a tactical necessity; it is a strategic imperative for building a mass workers’ party rooted in […]
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMB) this year dismissed Senior Work Study Practitioner, Gayle Grootboom, and Municipal Media Liaison Officer, (municipal spokesperson), Kupido Baron on trumped up charges of gross insubordination. They had served NMB for respectively 27 and 20 years of commendable service with spotless disciplinary records. Their dismissals were the culmination of ordeals […]
Although the working class entered the democratic era without its own independent workers party, socialism and the yearning for such a party survived the SACP’s onslaught. As the end of apartheid came into sight, a healthy class suspicion towards the ANC still ran through the outlook of the leading layers of the organised working class […]
“What has developed in South Africa is a very powerful tradition of popular or populist politics. The role of the great political movements such as the ANC and the Congress Alliance has been to mobilise the masses against the repressive minority regime… Where virtually all the population is voteless and oppressed by a racial minority […]
Part 1 The messages emanating from the various annual commemorative Marikana massacre events rightly denounced the bloodletting on the day as the ANC’s worst act of suppression since the Sharpeville massacre of the apartheid regime. It was the ANC’s most bloody act of class warfare against the black working class since it came to power. […]
The following thesis on perspectives for world capitalism was agreed at the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended in person from Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America and online from Australia. The Congress also hosted guests […]
