Africa

• Rebuilding the struggle September 15 2005
  The regime of Robert Mugabe has overseen the destruction of a huge number of self-built houses. At least 2.5 million people were affected. Yet protests and resistance proved minimal and muted. There is a crisis of leadership, reformists dither and the left does not grasp the necessity of a Marxist programme and the centrality of democracy. Instead, it is mired in economism and clutches at eclectic, spontaneous single-issue campaigns. Rosa Zulu, national treasurer of the International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe, spoke to Peter Manson
• Ministerial communism and ANC corruption June 23 2005
  Is the South African Communist Party just about to split from the ANC? Peter Manson reports about the increasing tensions
• Mass action to defeat Mugabe June 9 2005
  Thousands of “illegal buildings” have been destroyed by the Zanu PF regime in Zimbabwe, and tens of thousands made homeless. Munyaradzi Gwisai, leading member of the International Socialist Organisation (sister organisation of the Socialist Workers Party), gives the background to this assault and calls for a united fightback. Comrade Gwisai is the former Movement for Democratic Change MP for Highfield, Harare, and was elected on a revolutionary platform
• Break with capitalist ANC October 3 2005
  On October 1 hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike across South Africa against the privatisation policies of the ANC, fronted by Jeff Radebe, one of six government ministers who are members of the South African Communist Party. Reporting from Johannesburg, Dale McKinley of the Anti-Privatisation Forum exposes ANC-SACP double talk
• From the heart of struggle July 25 2002
  Munyaradzi Gwisai is a leader of the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe and the MP for Highfield, Harare. In Britain for the Socialist Workers Party’s Marxism event, comrade Gwisai spoke to John Bridge and Peter Manson of the CPGB