South African CP, Umsebenzi Online Volume 25, Number 8
5/18/26, 3:01 PM
- South Africa, South African Communist Party En Africa Communist and workers' parties
Umsebenzi Online Volume 25, Number 8
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
- Building power while the world burns
PEOPLE’S RED CARAVAN
- Building grassroots power in Gladstone
Tinyiko Ntini
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE
- NHI belongs to the people – we must defend it
Tebogo Phadu
CONFERENCE OF THE LEFT
- Forging a better future through united action
Mabuse Mpe
WORKERS’ DAY
- Workers unite in Polokwane in Cosatu May Day celebration
Thulile Kumalo
ASSESSING FREEDOM DAY
- A class analysis of South Africa’s bourgeois democracy
Aviwe Rapelang Mohapi
- Freedom Day was not completed in 1994: it was made possible
Nigel Branken
- Fighting poverty – lessons from China
Lebogang Pule
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
- The people of Swaziland are still struggling against an absolute monarchy
Pius Vilakati
- Cuba: Trump’s new executive order deepens the crisis
UoL report
- ALNEF Africa-Cuba meeting – organisations call to redouble practical solidarity
Kyle Haselsteiner
- Palestine: from the Nakba to the CleansOcide in West Asia
Makram Khoury-Machool
- 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
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Events
Urgent Actions
- Portuguese CP, Joint Statement: «Stop the escalation of aggression against Cuba!»
- Tudeh Party of Iran, Joint Statement of the Communist and Workers' Parties against Imperialist Intervention and for Solidarity with the Iranian People's Struggle!
- Statements of Communist & Worker's Parties: Solidarity with the people of Venezuela, against the military intervention of the US imperialists
- CP of Greece, Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties: Stop the genocide against the Palestinian people
- CP of Poland, On the case of illegalisation of the KPP
- CP of Greece, Joint Statement on the 108th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution
International Issues
- Statements of Communist & Workers Parties: Solidarity with the people of Venezuela, against the military intervention of the US imperialists
- Statements of Communist & Workers Parties on Israel's attack on Iran
- On the 155th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin
- 2023_Palestine
- 2022_No to the imperialist war in Ukraine!
- 2022_On the situation in Kazakhstan
- 2021_On the situation in Afghanistan
- 29 November 2020 - International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
- On the 150th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin
- COVID-19
- Anticommunism in EU
- Venezuela 2019
- Bolivia 2019