A LOVE LETTER TO THE MANY, arguments for transformative left politics in South Africa, selected writings

619pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

Dr Vishwas Satgar is an Associate Professor of International Relations, editor of the Democratic Marxism series and principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies at Wits University. An activist for over four decades, he was part of anti-apartheid mass politics in the 1980s through the Natal Indian Congress and a student leader. He worked on labour market reform for COSATU’s think tank NALEDI (1995–1999), pioneered post-apartheid cooperative development in township communities through the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre, was the Gauteng Secretary of the SACP (2001–2007) and co-founded the Vukani-Sidikiwe Campaign, #ZumaMustGo, the Higher Education Crisis process, Climate Justice Charter Movement and South African Food Sovereignty Campaign. He is one of the editors of People's and Workers' Climate Justice Charter, Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, Destroying Democracy and BRICS and the New American Imperialism, global rivalry and resistance.