• Sushovan Dhar

In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.

• Trevor Sacks

The predatory tech giant is at the center of a heritage site land grab, pitting indigenous and environmental activists against city authorities.

• Niall Reddy

To rebuild, the South African left must realize that there are no shortcuts to power.

• Ra’eesa Pather
• Michael Marchant

South Africa’s ruling party’s devotion to its policy of cadre deployment is an indication that it values its own power more than the public interest.

• Noor Nieftagodien

Before the Soweto Uprising in 1976, students and workers organized one of the largest strike actions in South Africa’s history.

• Janet Munakamwe

From Operation Fiela to Operation Dudula, xenophobia in South Africa is bent on protecting the interests of politicians.

• Sushovan Dhar

Neoliberal policy in Sri Lanka has triggered a massive socioeconomic crisis. The way out is not through the IMF, but through redistributing wealth.

• The Amandla Editorial Collective

Why South Africa needs to democratize its labor movement.

• The Amandla Editorial Collective

Different factions of South Africa's ruling elite are implicated in looting and profiting from the state. South Africans should take an attitude of a plague on both their houses.

• Caroline Velli

We have to become more open to the possibility that what our society needs is not better policing, but less. And ultimately no policing at all.

• William Shoki

This week's episode of AIAC Talk is a replay of the launch of the latest issue of Amandla! magazine, a South African publication advancing radical left perspectives for change.

• Peter Lobese
• Khokhoma Motsi
• Ayanda Kota

Instead of voting for the bankrupt ANC or DA, South Africans could do better with social movement candidates in upcoming local elections.

• Zama Ndlovu

If re-municipalization—returning a privatized service to local public control—is to work in South Africa, we need other forms of social contracting between municipalities and citizens.

• Michael Nassen Smith

South African cricket is currently the subject of TRC-style hearings into the racism and nepotism in the game. It makes for riveting TV, but focuses too much on individual instances of racism and discrimination.

• Andile Zulu

Approaching local elections, beyond its spectacles of defiance and never-ending episodes of controversy, what do the politics of the Economic Freedom Fighters have to offer?

• Sushovan Dhar

The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.

• Jane Duncan

Facebook and its “family” of services are a one-way street towards greater integration, data exploitation, and erosions of privacy by an increasingly monopolistic company.

• Niall Reddy

Assuming today’s socioeconomic crisis benefits the Left is folly. That will only happen if we have the political vision to make class the fault line of social polarization, and for that we need to face the challenge of constructing a new party.