The Conference of the Left was not a solution to the crisis of the South African left, but an opening. What follows must be built differently from what came before.
The future of the South African Left
A debate about the strategy and direction of left-wing politics in South Africa.
If the South African left cannot engage the messy, contradictory spaces where working class politics are actually happening, then it cannot lead.
A much-anticipated “Conference of the Left” was supposed to unite South Africa’s progressive forces. Instead, it confirmed the harder truth: the left doesn’t need unity, it needs rebuilding.