Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
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Hope revived in South Africa
The thoughtful one-step-at-a-time approach by President Cyril Ramaphosa is welcome on all sides
EARLY PROMISE: President Cyril Ramaphosa, center with black cap, walks with members of the general public in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
SOUTH Africa’s people have experienced such a collective upswing of confidence over the past fortnight that former public protector Thuli Madonsela says Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as state president has “put the country as a whole on the pedestal of hope.”
Madonsela earned the hostility of former president Jacob Zuma, echoed by the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies, for her 2014 report into security upgrades at Zuma’s Nkandla compound that accused him of benefiting unduly from public expenditure.
She was vindicated by subsequent acceptance that her report had been factual, following which Zuma had to pay some of the building costs.
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