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SAA: A Warning to the Working Class

27 April, 2020 Administrator 2

Whilst South Africa has been on a lockdown, aeroplanes grounded and at least one airline liquidated across the world, the struggle for the future of South African Airways has continued. Under the whip of big business, government is set to take full advantage of the global aviation industry crisis the pandemic has triggered. They want to break the workers’ resistance, bury SAA and create a new privately-owned entity parasiting on the state. We believe that the rhetoric in the Numsa leadership’s latest statements on SAA cannot hide the fundamental retreat they have made in the five months since the strike ended. Unfortunately they still do not put forward a genuine alternative a struggle.

Global Pandemic, Capitalist Crisis & Bitter Class Polarisation in the US

23 April, 2020 Administrator 1

A historic weakening of US imperialism following recent decline, and a strengthening of China, are set to shape a new balance in world relations. US imperialism emerged from the 1930s depression in a far -strengthened position. It will emerge from this crisis weakened and increasingly challenged by China. A new period of international relations is posed.

The Covid Crisis & the Way Forward for the Workers Movement

21 April, 2020 Administrator 0

Convene a Saftu Congress and a second Working Class Summit before the end of May to re-arm the working class with a clear socialist programme for the new period of global pandemic and capitalist crisis. The working class needs its own post-Covid ‘recovery plan’.

EPWP BULLETIN #9: ANC’s Gauteng Government Starving Workers

20 April, 2020 Administrator 1

The 5,000 EPWP workers falling under Gauteng’s Department of Infrastructure Development have not received their April stipends.

Militarised Lockdown for the Working Class & Poor

7 April, 2020 Administrator 1

There is growing concern over police and military brutality in the enforcement of South Africa’s twenty-one day lockdown regulations.

LOCKDOWN! Covid-19 Exposes Bankruptcy of ANC’s Capitalist Policies

27 March, 2020 Administrator 0

The government had time to prepare for this calamity. But it spent all its time devising an austerity budget to cut social spending and wages. What is worse is that the government is completely unprepared for the economic fall-out from the pandemic.

Eskom & the Loadshedding Crisis

26 March, 2020 Administrator 0

The capitalist class are not trying to resolve the Eskom crisis in the interests of the working class majority. Rather, they are jockeying for position amongst themselves for a slice of the enormous wealth that Eskom controls…

Coronavirus Plunges Capitalism into Global Turmoil

25 March, 2020 Administrator 3

The Need for a Socialist Alternative.

Statement from International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers International – 23 March 2020

COVID-19 #1: The Class Struggle Continues

16 March, 2020 Administrator 2

The coronavirus will be used by the bosses to excuse a thousand sins against workers in the coming weeks and months. This is the real class content of “a united nation”. It is an appeal to unite behind the capitalist class and accept their leadership in the crisis.

COVID-19 #2: World Economy Infected

16 March, 2020 Administrator 1

The biggest one-day fall in stock markets since the financial crisis; an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia; and the fastest drop in the cost of oil for 30 years. The impact of coronavirus on an already fragile world…