Militarised Lockdown for the Working Class & Poor
There is growing concern over police and military brutality in the enforcement of South Africa’s twenty-one day lockdown regulations.
Comment & Analysis
LOCKDOWN! Covid-19 Exposes Bankruptcy of ANC’s Capitalist Policies
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
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
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
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
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…
COVID-19 #3: Crisis Shakes Chinese Regime
China is a vast country, with the biggest population in the world, but one in which a multi-million state machine stifles initiative and fears the voice of the people. A small but very rich capitalist elite rules in the name of ‘communism’ but generally operates according to the laws of the market.
Budget 2020: Analysis
The budget announced by Tito Mboweni, signifies the most serious attack on the working class since the ANC came to power. The capitalist class, backed by the opposition parties, including the EFF ‘radical economic transformation’ posturers, welcomed the budget.
PODCAST #3: A Brief History of the International Marxist Movement & the Revolutionary Programme (Part 1)
The first MWP Day School took place on 22 February 2020. This podcast is a recording of the introduction at that workshop.
PODCAST #2: The ANC’s Historical Mission
The factional struggle in the ANC is an inevitable outcome of the class interests the ANC has served historically – those of the black aspirant capitalist class. We sketch-out how this mission developed historically, including the role of Nelson Mandela and the 1994 negotiated settlement that ended apartheid.