A Global Middle Class Tipping Point? By Kenan Malik | Original Source: The Guardian | 10 October 2018 Half the world is now middle class. So ran the headlines reporting a Brookings Institution analysis of global poverty, according to which 3.8 billion…
The Future of Democracy in Zimbabwe: Forward to the Past? By Thulani Mswelanto | Amandla Magazine Issue 59 | 4 October 2018 Zimbabwe held elections on 30 July 2018. This followed the ouster of President Mugabe after a faction of…
Corporate Corruption (Part 2): How to make multinational companies pay their fair share By Erwan Malary | Original Source: Daily Maverick | 28 September 2018 As explained in Part 1, illicit financial flows out of South Africa are substantial and growing…
The Global Financial Crisis: A Decade Later – Still in the Danger Zone Alternative Information and Development Center (AIDC) | 17 September 2018 15 September 2018 was exactly ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, ultimately culminating in a…
Marx at 200 and Marxist experiments in Africa By Phindile Kunene | Amandla Magazine Issue 59 | 7 September 2018 Marxist ideas and forms of political expression seem to be marginal in popular struggles in Africa today. But the retreat…
The Working Class Summit: a step towards united, militant action By Amandla correspondent | Amandla Magazine Issue 59 | 4 September 2018 Working class formations in South Africa have been fragmented and in decline for a long time. Saftu itself…
Intersectionality: Materialism or culturalism? Michael Nassen Smith | Amandla | 23 August 2018 Intersectionality has become a “master” concept in progressive circles today. With origins in critical legal studies in the USA, it has quickly spread across the globe…
A new political environment? By Trevor Ngwane | Amandla Magazine Issue 58 | 23 August 2018 The state of the left There are moments in history which give glimpses of what the working class can do. They are moments in…
Building the movement of the working class and the dispossessed Amandla Editorial | Amandla Magazine Issue 59 | 22 August 2018 South Africa is becoming more impoverished day-by-day. Stats SA’s latest figures show unemployment increasing by 0.5% to 37.2%. (We…
Dysfunctional economy needs urgent change By Amandla! Editorial Collective | Amandla! Issue 58 | 26 June 2018 Stats SA reported disastrous results for the economy for the first three months of this year. The economy shrank by 2.2%. This prompted…
