Month: April 2020

Comment & Analysis
Cuba’s Medical Brigade & “Socialist” Cuba
On 27 April, 217 Cuban health workers arrived in South Africa to assist in the fight against Covid-19. Across the left there has been a stampede to praise “socialist” Cuba. But there has been little said of any substance. However the history of Cuba since 1959 is full of lessons for workers and young people,…
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Administrator
30 April, 2020
SAA, Workplace Struggle
SAA: A Warning to the Working Class
Whilst South Africa has been on a lockdown, aeroplanes grounded and at least one airline liquidated across the world, the struggle for the future of South African Airways has continued. Under the whip of big business, government is set to take full advantage of the global aviation industry crisis the pandemic has triggered. They want…
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Administrator
27 April, 2020
Coronavirus, CWI Statements
Global Pandemic, Capitalist Crisis & Bitter Class Polarisation in the US
A historic weakening of US imperialism following recent decline, and a strengthening of China, are set to shape a new balance in world relations. US imperialism emerged from the 1930s depression in a far -strengthened position. It will emerge from this crisis weakened and increasingly challenged by China. A new period of international relations is…
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Administrator
23 April, 2020
Coronavirus
The Covid Crisis & the Way Forward for the Workers Movement
Convene a Saftu Congress and a second Working Class Summit before the end of May to re-arm the working class with a clear socialist programme for the new period of global pandemic and capitalist crisis. The working class needs its own post-Covid ‘recovery plan’.
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Administrator
21 April, 2020
EPWP, Workplace Struggle
EPWP BULLETIN #9: ANC’s Gauteng Government Starving Workers
The 5,000 EPWP workers falling under Gauteng’s Department of Infrastructure Development have not received their April stipends.
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Administrator
20 April, 2020
Coronavirus
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.
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Administrator
7 April, 2020