The SACP is going it alone, the ANC is purging its members, and COSATU is split. Inside the deepest crisis the Alliance has ever faced.

Southern Africa's peoples have always crossed its borders. This piece argues that only a socialist federation of the region built from the working class up, and not imposed from above, can end the exploitation those borders were drawn to enforce.

A close reading of a 2026 debate between the Spartacists and the RCIT over whether China and Russia are imperialist powers, and what follows for revolutionary strategy in Ukraine if they are.

Africa's borders weren't drawn for sovereignty — they were drawn in Berlin, in 1884, by men who never set foot on the continent, for the movement of plunder and the control of cheap labour. That machine still runs today, and its favourite product is the "illegal" worker. As xenophobic violence flares across South Africa, this piece traces the border from the Berlin Conference to the mining compounds to Operation Dudula's clinic blockades — and argues for one slogan against it

An analysis of the 30 June 2026 xenophobic pogroms in South Africa: who enabled them, who benefits, and what a working-class programme against them looks like.

A polemic against the RCIT's line on Ukraine: applying Lenin's method to ask not who was invaded, but who owns the war and what follows once quantity has passed into quality.