Umsebenzi Online Volume 25, Number 8
SACP Communications
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
1. Building power while the world burns
PEOPLE’S RED CARAVAN
2. Building grassroots power in Gladstone
Tinyiko Ntini
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE
3. NHI belongs to the people – we must defend it
Tebogo Phadu
CONFERENCE OF THE LEFT
4. Forging a better future through united action
Mabuse Mpe
WORKERS’ DAY
5. Workers unite in Polokwane in Cosatu May Day celebration
Thulile Kumalo
ASSESSING FREEDOM DAY
6. A class analysis of South Africa’s bourgeois democracy
Aviwe Rapelang Mohapi
7. Freedom Day was not completed in 1994: it was made possible
Nigel Branken
8. Fighting poverty – lessons from China
Lebogang Pule
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
9. The people of Swaziland are still struggling against an absolute monarchy
Pius Vilakati
10. Cuba: Trump’s new executive order deepens the crisis
UoL report
11. ALNEF Africa-Cuba meeting – organisations call to redouble practical solidarity
Kyle Haselsteiner
12. Palestine: from the Nakba to the CleansOcide in West Asia
Makram Khoury-Machool
13. Palestine: sexual violence in Israeli detention and the logic of colonial terror
UoL report
Link for download:
https://sacp.org.za/sites/default/files/publications/Umsebenzi-Online-May-2026-No8.pdf