Opinion
Only a winning Left can save us from the demagogues lurking around the corner
29 December 2019 - 00:00
A global political assessment of 2019 yields a largely bleak result. Right-wing demagogues now hold power in Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, India, the UK, the US, Hungary, Israel and Poland. We have been spared that fate in SA, but authoritarianism continues to fester in nearby countries like Zimbabwe and Rwanda...
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