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Category: Trade Union
Heroic Sibanye Strike Highlights the Tactical Issues Facing the Workers’ Movement
The temperature of the class struggle is rising. 2022 has already seen a whole number of strikes. Some have been brief skirmishes as workers test their strength against the bosses. The strike wave is posing afresh many of the tactical and strategic issues facing the workers movement. None more so than the strike in Sibanye-Stillwater’s…
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WORKERS DAY 2022 | Unite ALL Struggles
The following is the text of a pamphlet distributed at Saftu’s Workers Day event held in Pretoria. FOR A UNIFYING & DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MASS WORKERS PARTY – Set the Launch…
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WORKING CLASS SUMMIT DEBATES | The Workers Party Discussion Paper & the Crisis in Saftu
Over the last few weeks momentum towards convening a second Working Class Summit has been regained. The first Summit, convened by the Saftu trade union federation, took place in July…
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SAFTU CRISIS | What lies behind the attempt to oust comrade Vavi? How should Saftu respond?
members of the Numsa-sponsored Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP), threatens to throw Saftu and the entire workers movement into an even deeper crisis than it is in already. It is not just an attack on comrade Vavi, but on Saftu as a whole.
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CLOVER STRIKE | Build Workers Unity in Struggle to Defeat Clover
The MWP salutes the combativity, courage and determination of the Clover workers as their strike, enters its third month, against plant closures, retrenchments, salary cuts and degraded working conditions.
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Solidarity with Steel and Engineering Workers Strike
The Marxist Workers Party stands in solidarity with the steel and engineering workers who began national strike action on 5 October. This action on pay is being led by Numsa, the dominant union in the nearly half-million strong workforce. Marches have taken place in Johannesburg and Durban with one journalist, reporting live from the Johannesburg,…
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WORKING CLASS SUMMIT DEBATES | What ‘type’ of party does the working class need?
We welcome the re-convening of the Working Class Summit on 23-24 October. The creation of a mass workers party will again be discussed. The Saftu federation is also debating this crucial issue. It remains a controversial topic for the leadership. The SRWP leadership is denouncing the idea of a “mass party” as counter-revolutionary, bourgeois and…
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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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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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FEB 24 STRIKE | Let the Working Class Counter-Offensive Begin!
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) will embark on a Section 77 ‘general’ strike on Wednesday 24 February, the day that the budget is tabled in parliament. Because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic the strike will overwhelmingly take the form of a ‘stay away’, with workers asked to remain at home. The Marxist…
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