Umsebenzi Online, Volume 25 No. 11

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

1. Towards whom does public power lean?

SACP ELECTION MANIFESTO – VOTE SACP 4 NOV 2026

2. This is our contract. This is our programme. This is our weapon. Take it. Organise with it. Defend it. Vote for it.

SACP 105TH ANNIVERSARY

3. A Party that never abandoned the working class

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

4. SACP maps road from the ballot box to working-class power Umsebenzi Online

LEFT UNITY IN ACTION

5. Council of the Left constituted: Now We Must Organise

UoL report

6. Conference of the Left – an inspiration to the African people against imperialism

Pius Vilakati

PEOPLE’S RED CARAVAN

7. A day inside the People’s Red Caravan Thulile Kumalo

SOLIDARITY – CUBA

8. They make the economy scream, then declare socialism a failure

Thabile Lenkwane

SOLIDARITY – IRAN

9. Imperialism’s ‘peace’ is war by other means

Aviwe Rapelang Mohapi

WOMEN IN STRUGGLE

10. Menstrual Leave – the fight continues

Tsholofelo Maseko

YOUTH YEAR – SOWETO UPRISING 50TH ANNIVERSARY

11. Youth, STEM, and the digital economy – breaking imperialist dependency

Aviwe Rapelang Mohapi

SOCIAL REPRODUCTION

12 The crisis of lack of public care work – it’s not just about absent loved ones

Dineo Majavu

MK VETERANS

13. Erasing a liberation zone – the Bonteheuwel Military Wing and the database used to bury it

UoL report

MANDELA DAY 2026

14. SACP Mochochonono Branch honours Mandela Day with school painting

Tenanile Mngomezulu

GOVERNMENT FINANCE

15. Clean audits and the constitutional vision of good governance

Dr Sizwe Nyenyiso

THE FUTURE OF ESKOM

16. Reject the Eskom restructuring plans

Sphe Yalo

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