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PUBLIC SECTOR WAGE AGREEMENT | Majority of Union Leaders Capitulate to ANC Austerity
Trade union leaders with a majority in the PSCBC have agreed to sign a wage agreement on behalf of public sector workers. This is a serious setback rather than an outright defeat. It is entirely possible to recover from it.
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MOZAMBIQUE | Military Intervention Will Solve Nothing
A disaster is unfolding in Cabo Delgado. In 2020 alone there were 570 “violent incidents”. Nearly 3,000 have died so far and over 700,000 have been displaced. Atrocities against the local population are being committed by both the insurgents and the Mozambican army and security forces. For many the SADC intervention may seem necessary to…
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EYEWITNESS | Community Self-Defence in Katlehong, Zone 3
On 21 July MWP members visited in Zone 3 of Katlehong, Gauteng. We had learned through the media of the brilliant work of residents to defend their community from rioting and looting, in particular the Motse wa Lijane mall.
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RIOTS AND LOOTING A DEAD END! | Build Working Class Unity to Win Jobs and Services for ALL
Since the imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma, SA has witnessed the most widespread unrest in decades. Tens of thousands of the poor, the destitute and the hungry have raided supermarkets and shopping malls for food, clothes and other consumer goods. The looting and rioting have seen instances of police outnumbered by the crowds, being…
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CONCOURT RULINGS | Judiciary Clears the Path for Ramaphosa as Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens
The ConCourt judgement is a warning to the different factions of the ruling class not to over-reach themselves as Zuma and the RET faction did. The judicial-wing of the capitalist state has substituted itself as the ruling class’s “executive committee”, given the paralysis of its executive- and legislative-wings as a result of the factional divisions…
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YOUTH DAY 2021 | Re-Build the Revolutionary Traditions of the Youth!
On the 45th anniversary of the school students’ revolt of 1976 we are re-publishing in a new booklet The Soweto Uprising by Weizmann Hamilton, general secretary of the MWP. Weizmann’s 1986 article draws-out the lessons of the historic 1976 youth revolt. It was originally written to arm the working class youth struggling against apartheid with…
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Conflict in Jerusalem Widens Across Israeli Cities and To War On Gaza
At the time of writing, Israeli missiles have slaughtered over 60 Gazans, including 16 children, some of them inside or near residential tower blocks that have been destroyed. The CWI strongly condemns this horrific, massive Israeli bombardment, which is causing enormous terror and devastation in the densely populated Gaza strip.
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An Era of Capitalist Turmoil
The 2020s is set to be a decade of explosive developments and upheavals in all countries. There is not a country where political and social turmoil are not present to one degree or another. The lightning speed at which events are unfolding is a feature of the era we have entered. Capitalism is in its…
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WORKERS DAY 2021 | Seize the Opportunities to Build Working Class Unity
Workers Day 2021 marks the 35th anniversary of Cosatu’s 1986 stayaway. At least 1.5 million workers took part in that general strike of thirty-five years ago. Topping the list of workers’ demands was the recognition of 1 May as a public holiday. The accelerated pace of events in the coming years will cut both ways.…
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Ensure the Working Class Summit is a GENUINE Parliament of the Working Class!
Unite all Struggles Around A Launch Date for Workers Party On 10 and 11 May (provisionally), nearly three since it first met, the Working Class Summit (WCS) will reconvene. This has the potential to be an enormous step-forward for the working class, one for which the MWP has campaigned for more than two years. Saftu…
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