In this article Ahmed Jooma and Shaheen Khan argue for the need for working class intervention in the current campaign for Zuma to fall, and that the working class must form a left bloc that will be part of the campaign that includes all the forces calling for Zuma’s downfall.

Rating Agencies are being used by the ruling class to discipline governments and force them to keep to neoliberal policies that support monopoly capital.

The transition to democracy in South Africa deepened the structural inequalities inherited from apartheid, and notwithstanding the democratic gains the transition has reinforced the power and wealth of the apartheid ruling classes. The current crisis in South Africa owes its origins to these features of the transition.

The struggles between President Zuma and Pravin Gordhan has been portrayed as anti-corruption struggles against one individual and one family. The reality is that what the struggle is about attempts by a black middle class that has been blocked from accessing the commanding heights of the economy, and a white monopoly capitalist class that still exercises enormous power in South African society.

Sharon Groenmeyer Discusses the state of Literacy and Gender Equality in South Africa

Eva Rampa discusses the challanges facing libraries, from the perspective of librarian

Leonard Gentle discusses the Marikana Massacre in light of the changes within the union movement and the working class and argues that a new movement and the working class and argues that the new movement is emerging

Oupa Lehulere* argues that the fracturing within the ANC has little to do with personality clashes, hidden agendas or Zuma’s lack of vision; but rather the class configuration that underpinned the cohesion of the Mbeki group.