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Sack the board! End outsourcing! The Marxist Workers Party stands in full solidarity with SAA workers!!

One working class – one struggle. For a trade union united front against job losses, privatisation and austerity. What role should Saftu play?

South Africa is going through its most serious economic crisis of the democratic era. What characterises this crisis, probably more than any other before it, is that there is no solution on a capitalist basis.

The following statement was agreed at a meeting of European CWI sections and supporters, along with visitors from the USA and Nigeria, which was held earlier this week, in London.

A planned meeting between the the Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development and the workers’ leaders, set for Friday, 1 November is mentioned. At the last minute the meeting was “postponed until further notice”. Workers are mobilising for mass meetings to discuss the way forward.

The circumstances of Mugabe’s death were symbolic. This alleged hero of the liberation struggle died in Singapore from cancer, as Zimbabwean doctors were striking for higher wages in hospitals that cannot fund even paracetamol.

A mass working class movement can lay the real social foundations upon which gender equality can be built. The struggle for women’s liberation needs to be re-written on the banner of the workers movement.

Full responsibility for the outbreak of xenophobic violence must be laid at the door of the Ramaphosa ANC government.

The 2019 general elections will be seen, in time, as the most important since the advent of democracy. For the first time since 1994, less than half of the voting age population cast their ballots. There are 35.8 million eligible voters. Of these 26.8 million are on the voters roll. In other words approximately 9 million are not registered. Only 65.9% of registered voters went to the polls.

Workers are under attack by the bosses and the politicians that defend the capitalist profit system. There have been tens of thousands of job losses on top of existing mass unemployment. To boost their profits the bosses will use the new R3,500 poverty-level minimum wage as a wage-ceiling and not a wage-floor.