A Socialist Approach to the Emancipation of Women
By Sheri Hamilton The struggle against Gender Based Violence Women’s month drew to a close after the month-long ritual of renewed commitments from government to […]
Comment & Analysis
Part 1A – the ANC
ANC – loss of overall majority in 2024 could tear it apart. By 2024 the ANC’s shall have been gripped by factional divisions for more […]
6th Post-Apartheid General Election – A Crisis of Political Representation for Capitalist Class and Working Class
A call to the left PreambleOne of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci’s most quoted phrases is his 1930 statement in the Prison Notebooks that ‘the crisis consists precisely […]
Employment Equity Act will not end inequality, mass unemployment and poverty
The amendments to the Employment Equity Act (EAA) signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosaand due to take effect on 1st September 2023, has given […]
Sudan | Revolutionary masses must end generals’ counter-revolutionary violence
A brutal power struggle is under way in Sudan. On 15 April, heavy fighting erupted between different factions of the armed forces. Civilians have abruptly […]
Will Saftu’s support for EFF shut down take working class struggle forward?
The SAFTU NEC has agreed to participate in the EFF national shutdown on 20 March. Can the EFF be a trusted ally in the fight for socialism?
ANC CONGRESS | No Help for South Africa’s Working Class
The ANC’s December congress re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as party leader. The ruling class faces a crisis of political representation. This is ultimately a product of the crisis of capitalism and sharp tensions between the classes.
REVIEW: AUGUST 24 SHUTDOWN | Enormous Potential to Build a United Mass Movement Against the ANC Government and Capitalism Must be Seized
The growing demand for working class unity took a step forward on the August 24 National Shutdown. Throughout the day “working class unity” was the one rallying call guaranteed to receive thunderous applause and deafening cheers. But workers will have to take matters into their own hands to ensure that August 24 is cemented as the opening act of a campaign of rolling mass action and to consolidate the important steps toward unity that have been taken.
MARIKANA 10 YEARS ON | The Historical Significance of the Mineworkers Uprising
by Weizmann Hamilton There can be no tribute more fitting to the martyrs of Marikana than the SA Federation of Trade Unions’ planned National Shut […]
SAFTU’S SECOND CONGRESS | Time for a Counter-Offensive Against Bosses and Government
Saftu’s second congress is taking place at a time of the sharpest escalation of the struggle between the classes in the post-apartheid era. … The necessity for unity in struggle has never been greater. A counter-offensive against this onslaught is absolutely imperative. The weaponry of the class enemy in government, state-owned enterprises and the private sector is trained on both organised workers’ wages and conditions, but also on the wider working class through savage social spending cuts. Preparation for a public sector general strike followed by a national general strike would … enable Saftu to claim the right to lead the working class like the early Cosatu.
