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Category: Trade Union
SSA | Zuma’s Parallel State & ‘Dirty Tricks’ Campaign Against the Workers’ Movement
Of all the new revelations at the Zondo Commission, it is crucial for the working class to register and digest the exposure of the ‘dirty tricks’ being used against the workers’ movement and other protest movements. Testimony at the Zondo Commission has again confirmed that the SSA was responsible for the creation of the Workers…
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REVIEW: OCTOBER 7 GENERAL STRIKE | An Opportunity Missed for Saftu
The 7 October general strike called by Cosatu came against the background of an all-out assault on the working class by the ANC government and the bosses over the six months of the lockdown.Cosatu leaders promised that the economy would be brought to a standstill on 7 October. The strike was supported by all four…
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STRIKE | Forward in Unity Against Capitalism!
Workers’ deepening anger and determination to fight back has compelled the Cosatu leadership to act despite its political entrapment in the Tripartite Alliance and their ANC loyalties. The MWP applauds Saftu’s support of a united front with Cosatu. It offers unity in struggle with the Cosatu rank-and-file, will sharpen the contradictions between Cosatu’s membership and…
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OPEN LETTER TO SAFTU | PART 3: The Crisis of Programme
Leon Trotsky explained that, “In the epoch of imperialist decay the trade unions can be really independent only to the extent that they are conscious of being, in action, the organs of proletarian revolution.” (Our emphasis.) Saftu members will not be able to fully purge the policies of class collaboration and complete the journey to…
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OPEN LETTER | To Saftu Members
On 25 August the National Executive Committee of Saftu will sit. Every member of the federation must take a huge interest in this meeting. The outcome will answer whether or not Saftu is prepared to give leadership to the working class in a world that has changed completely in just a few short months.
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MARIKANA ANNIVERSARY | Honour the Martyrs – Build a Mass Workers Party
To honour the memory of the martyrs of Marikana…. Build a mass workers party on a socialist programme by Weizmann Hamilton It is eight years since the Marikana massacre. Although…
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ANNIVERSARY | A Tribute to the Marikana Martyrs from the New Generation
The tragic events of the Marikana massacre could have been avoided by acknowledging the Marikana mineworkers’ demand for a R12,500 p/m basic salary. This would have prevented the loss of many lives.
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WORKING CLASS DAY OF ACTION | The ANC’s PPE-tender Corruption is the last straw!
The symbolic protests by left activists taking place on 1 August have been called because of a growing feeling that something must be done. If the ANC government is left in charge of managing the pandemic, if capitalism and the profit motive continue to determine what is, and what is not, ‘possible’, the working class…
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- Capitalism’s ANC Crisis, Comment & Analysis, Coronavirus, Corruption, Trade Union, Workplace Struggle
Ramaphosa, Diko, the ANC and the Rise of the ‘Covidpreneurs’
The very system of tenders, whether they are technically corrupt or not, involves a massive diversion of wealth away from the working class and poor.
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SAA: ANC Government & Big Business Retaliate
Workers Movement Must Oppose Business ‘Rescue’!
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