Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
Mainstream commentators have been fretting over Donald Trump’s hostile rhetoric towards the media. But Chelsea Manning’s recent jailing shows that there are much graver threats to press freedom happening right under their noses.
Capitalists are already using the state to reshape our cities — we need to wield it in a radically different way to serve the interests of working people.
When Bernie Sanders says “It’s not about me, it’s about us,” he’s not just pandering. He’s trying to create a mass movement — because he knows that without one, his agenda doesn’t stand a chance.
Canadian comedians figured out how to engage in collective action — and just won a major victory.
The teachers strikes of the 1960s and ‘70s embraced workplace militancy but alienated parents and other communities who should have been allies. By striking on behalf of the entire working class, today’s teachers aren’t making that same mistake.
The United States isn’t just the shape we see on a map — it’s a sprawling empire whose reach touches not just in formal territories and colonies but all corners of the world.
The historic prospect of Irish unification is now greater than it has been in decades. But it won’t succeed unless campaigners offer a clear and compelling picture of what a united Ireland will look like.
High Flying Bird reminds us the NBA “family” is beyond dysfunctional; it’s malevolent. And it challenges us to imagine a different sort of league.
Tens of thousands of students in Europe have launched “school strikes” to demand a Green New Deal and reject their governments’ moderation on climate change.
Netflix’s Trotsky is a sinister rewriting of history, intended to benefit the right-wingers who dominate modern Russian politics.
Once upon a time, “socialism” meant breadlines and tyranny to many Americans. Then Fox News came along and made it sound amazing.
Locomotive manufacturing workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, recently walked off the job against concessions and two-tier wages. The president of UE Local 506 explains what’s at stake.
The Democrats like to trumpet their commitment to group representation and multicultural sensitivity. But they’re happy to throw those principles overboard if it will help them attack the Left.
Charlie Post cautions against recent defenses of Second-International Marxist Karl Kautsky.
Trump’s First Step Act has been lauded by everyone from criminal justice reform organizations to Van Jones as an important blow against the carceral state. It’s not — and it does far more harm for the incarcerated than good.
Argentina’s mass movement for abortion rights has produced an insurgent, class-based feminism that intends to grow alongside the emancipation of the whole working class.
On March 8, 2018, millions of women across Spain struck for International Women’s Day. The nationwide shutdown showed how we can turn our personal hardships into a powerful collective resistance.
On this day in 1917, Russian women struck to end Tsarism. Today, women around the world are following in their footsteps.
Fascists keep vandalizing Marx’s grave because they’re still afraid of his legacy, and the power of his ideas.
Contrary to the myth that socialists have always ignored gender oppression, women’s suffrage was first won by socialist feminists — and working-class revolt.