African Communist, 1st Quarter 2026, Issue 216

[SACP Communications]

African Communist, 1st Quarter 2026, Issue 216

 

CONTENTS

 

EDITORIAL NOTES

 

Inseparable struggles

 

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

 

The NDR must win on two fronts: working-class hegemony and anti-imperialist

solidarity

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

 

Understanding seat allocation and its implications for the 2026 local government

elections

Trevor Fowler

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

 

The problem lies with party politics, not local government

Bheke Stofile

 

OCEAN ECONOMY

 

The Law of the Sea, imperialism and the National Democratic Revolution

Zakhele Cele 

 

WOMEN IN STRUGGLE

 

Beyond recognition: International Working Women’s Day and the struggle for

economic justice

Sanelisiwe Ngubane

 

ONLINE GAMBLING

 

The new extraction economy and the working-class wage-drain

Sarah Mokwebo

 

SOLIDARITY WITH VENEZUELA

 

After the abduction of President Maduro: the plunder of oil and the new danger facing

the Global South

Lefika Chetty

 

IMPERIALISM

 

Exposing the deception of ‘joint law enforcement’—how Trumpian imperialism

codifies aggression as “rules”

Li Zhuoru

 

NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

 

Sovereignty as a pillar of anti-imperialist struggle: lessons from the Democratic

People’s Republic of Korea

Sibusisiwe Thobela 

 

BOOKS

 

Colonial repression in the US empire

Mark Waller

 

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