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Michael Laxer
Jan 718 min read
"Slovo affirmed the superiority of socialism over the barbarism of capitalism" - Solly Mapaila, SACP
Solly Mapaila speaks, January 6, 2024 -- image via video screenshot South African Communist Party: Statement on the 30th annual...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 16, 20248 min read
Consolidate and Build a Powerful Socialist Movement of the Workers and Poor - SACP
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has issued a declaration looking at the struggle for socialism and against imperialism both...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 3, 20243 min read
Anti-imperialism and solidarity with the struggles against imperialist aggression and for global justice - SACP
The South African Communist Party (SACP) held a Central Committee Plenary meeting from November 29 to December 1. They released a...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 24, 202412 min read
"An Act of Solidarity in Angola" - Fidel Castro, 1975
Fidel Castro during his historic visit to Angola, March 1977 An historic speech given by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in 1975...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 15, 20244 min read
Abahlali baseMjondolo condemns forced evictions in South Africa
100 days into the Government of National Unity, the shack dwellers movement condemns a sharp uptick in forced evictions in informal...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20243 min read
'Horrific Reality': Nearly 70% of UN-Verified Gaza Deaths Are Women and Children
The United Nations human rights office noted the "unprecedented levels of killings, death, injury, starvation, illness, disease,...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20244 min read
Hundreds march in South Africa against budget cuts
Leaders of Saftu, Cosatu and the SACP leading the anti-austerity protest in Cape Town ahead of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement....
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Michael Laxer
Nov 2, 20245 min read
The BRICS Summit Should Mark the End of Neocon Delusions
Simply put, the majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony, and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 28, 20241 min read
Workers Picket the Office of South Africa’s Largest Defense Manufacturer
Image via NUMSA on Facebook By Global News Service Workers at Denel, South Africa’s largest manufacturer of defense equipment, picketed...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 22, 20241 min read
Health Activists Picket Against High Cost of Nutritious Food on World Food Day
Image via X By Global News Service On World Food Day, October 16, the People’s Health Movement (PHM) South Africa organized a picket in...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 12, 20243 min read
South Africans push for the adoption of ‘Apartheid Bill’ to isolate Israel
Thousands of Cape Townians braved sweltering heat by taking to the streets to make their voices heard. Photo by Mzi Velapi By Mzi Velapi,...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 24, 20243 min read
"We South Africans know what apartheid looks like"
Excerpt from the speech of Cyril Ramaphosa , President of South Africa, at the UN General Assembly, 24 September 2024: Genocide was...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 19, 20243 min read
E-hailing drivers go on strike in Cape Town
Vulnerable to arbitrary decisions by the e-hailing apps and criminals posing as passengers, the drivers called for government protection....
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Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20243 min read
South African farmworkers march to demand a ban on harmful pesticides
The protestors want Germany to stop exporting 67 hazardous pesticides that are banned in Europe, to South Africa Women on Farms are...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 27, 20243 min read
South African Communists celebrate Venezuelan Supreme Court confirmation of Maduro victory
Maduro speaks during the 2024 election campaign - Confidencial, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 18, 20242 min read
PSC calls for Israeli academics at microbial conference in Cape Town to be disinvited
The PSC says that allowing Israeli academics, that have no record of opposing the genocide in Palestine, to be speakers at the symposium...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 17, 20241 min read
Remembering Ruth First, assassinated August 17, 1982
Ruth First was born in 1925 to parents Julius First and Matilda Levetan who emigrated to South Africa from Latvia in 1906 and became...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 6, 20241 min read
Spain joins South Africa's Israel genocide case at the ICJ
Albares making the announcement Saying that they are doing it out of commitment to the UN and international law, Spanish Foreign Minister...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 6, 20244 min read
South African Communists call for prioritizing the interests of workers, no alliance with DA or MKP
The South African Communist Party (SACP) Political Bureau held a special meeting on Wednesday, June 5 2024, in Johannesburg to analyze...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20246 min read
Lula's Gaza Rhetoric is not enough
Although Lula da Silva called Israel’s war against Palestinians a genocide, the Brazilian president is yet to follow that up with...
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