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Month: August 2020
CHIEFLY CORRUPTION | In the Grip of Poverty in the Rural Areas
The Eastern Cape, particularly the rural parts thereof, is the epitome of the ANC’s betrayal of the rural people who are unable to breathe as they are daily chocked by poverty, unemployment, lack of clean water, access roads, healthcare facilities, decent sanitation, proper housing, proper school education and functioning transport. All this misery is an…
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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 | PART 2: The Crisis in Saftu, the Struggle for Class Independence & the Workers Party
In Part I of our Open Letter we put forward our views on what we believe must begin to emerge from Saftu’s 25 August NEC in order to take forward working class struggle against the unprecedented health, economic and political crisis. But the fact that the NEC meeting is taking place almost a full five…
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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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NEW MEMBERS | Why I joined the MWP #2
by Mofihli Kamogelo, Marikana, North West When Vladimir Lenin saw the atrocities caused by the First World War and the suffering of the working people he knew that it was…
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NEW MEMBERS | Why I joined the MWP
A new member explains why he has decided to join the Marxist Workers Party.
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