Communist Party of Swaziland Tuesday 7 June 2022:- The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) has learnt of the sad news that South African internationalist Comrade Amos Mbulaheni Mbedzi (57) passed away this morning. Comrade Amos died in Polokwane Provincial Hospital, South Africa, while serving an 85-year sentence after conviction by the Mswati autocracy’s courts in 2012, following arrest in September 2008. The CPS conveys its … Continue reading CPS message of condolences to family of South African internationalist Comrade Amos Mbedzi

23 May 2022:- The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) leader, Comrade Amal Alzain, member of the SCP’s Polit Bureau. Comrade Amal was detained by Sudanese security forces on Sunday 22 May 2022 as she was returning from a press conference organised by the SCP’s Bureau for Information at the Party’s headquarters. The arrest … Continue reading CPS calls for immediate release of Sudanese Communist Party leadership and all political detainees

Thursday 19 May 2022:- The youth from Methula constituency in the Shiselweni region of Swaziland have once again fallen victims to the ruthless repression of the royal police. The area’s youth was woken up in the crack of dawn by a police battalion armed to the teeth who invaded various homesteads in the area and subsequently kidnapped four youths. The police broke down doors, confiscated … Continue reading Mswati’s police crack down on anti-evictions kaMethula youth

Communist Party of Swaziland 18 May 2022:- Swaziland’s soldiers on Tuesday 17 May 2022 viciously assaulted the president of the Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS), Comrade Colani Maseko. The military and the police also assaulted many other students who had been protesting for scholarships for all, allowances, better learning conditions, and democracy. The assault of the student union’s president first took place at Kwaluseni … Continue reading Royal military’s attack on student union president: CPS calls for mobilisation of youth and students for total freedom

12 May 2022 The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) joins the working class in celebrating International Nurses Day, this year held under the theme Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Invest in nursing and respect rights to secure global health. Nurses remain the bedrock of the healthcare system of every country and have been at the forefront in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, in … Continue reading CPS statement on International Nurses Day 2022

9 May 2022:- The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) has in recent days fought off heavy anti-communist propaganda coming from counter-revolutionary forces masquerading as progressive voices. Abusing the banner of democracy, these forces have been all over the place publishing slanderous stories about the CPS, doing the bidding for the ruling autocracy. The people of Swaziland in their multitudes have seen through these lies and … Continue reading CPS on latest anti-communist propaganda offensive

The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) salutes workers of Swaziland and the world in the May Day rallies organised all over the world in honour of the struggles and victories waged in the workplace and to some greater degree in the streets in defence for workers’ rights and improved welfare of the working people and their dependants. Workers and the working-class people in Swaziland are … Continue reading CPS on May Day 2022, 1 May 2022: Workers should fight for Democracy Now to defend Unions and make bargaining a Transformation Platform

28 April 2022:- The Swaziland royal police on Thursday 28 April 2022 abducted three youths, among whom was a 15-year-old school learner. The police in Swaziland are known to torture democracy activists in police cells and impose trumped up charges on them. The abductions happened at Ngudzeni constituency in the Shiselweni region, south of Swaziland, following democracy demonstrations there. Intent on concealing their crimes, the … Continue reading Mswati’s police abduct youths, including 15-year-old school learner

28 April 2022:- The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) condemns the arbitrary evictions of residents by the Mswati autocracy in Methula community, south of Swaziland. On Wednesday morning (27 April 2022), Mswati’s government evicted residents and destroyed their homesteads, leaving them homeless. The CPS commends the fighting spirit displayed by the youth of Methula community in resistance to these arbitrary evictions and criminal destruction of … Continue reading CPS condemns arbitrary evictions and state violence on residents in Methula constituency