Dear Comrades and Supporters
The Committee for a Workers International, that the Marxist Workers Party is affiliated to, is holding its fourteenth world congress this year. The MWP is appealing to supporters and sympathisers for support to finance our delegate’s attendance.
The CWI congress is taking place at a time when Trump 2.0 has acted as a great destabiliser of geo-political relations and the polycrises afflicting the world. At the same time Trump’s regime is serving as a gigantic accelerator of the polarisation between the classes worldwide.
The world has thus entered an era of troubled times characterised by economic and political convulsions. Beyond the rising tides of war, the working class and the oppressed face a multitude of global challenges: economic crises that deepen inequality, climate change that threatens our planet, and the growing assault on workers, women’s and democratic rights.
Trump has returned to the US presidency armed with executive orders and legislation legitimising racism, misogyny and attacks on democracy threatening women’s and LGBTQI rights at home. The judges he appointed in his first stint as president overtured women’s right to choose to have an abortion – a right in force for 50 years. He has assigned his SA born and apartheid trained henchman, Elon Musk to retrench government workers, close down government agencies including a threat to close down the Department of Education. With Trump’s approval Musk is actively championing far right parties in Europe and South America, going so far as to make a fascist salute.
Since Word War 2, Africa, Asia and Latin America have been the victims of direct military interventions and regime change coups. Since his return Trump has embarked on a more brazen assertion of US imperialist power extending beyond what it has treated as its backyard in South America targeting Mexico and Panama. The last few weeks have witnessed public denunciations between the US and erstwhile allies, Canada and European countries. Behind the racism, xenophobia, misogyny is more than buffoonery. What is fuelling Trump 2.0’s domestic and foreign policy is an attempt to arrest and reverse the decline of US economic hegemony and the emergence of a multi-polar world.
The Tariff war Trump has started could spiral out of control as it did when the US imposed them in 1930. It led to a collapse of global trade and deepened the Great Depression. This time it would be far worse in a much more globalised world economy that is already in crisis. SA lost a million jobs in the Great Recession that followed the 2008 Global Financial Crisis from which the world economy has not yet recovered 17 years later. The effect of another crisis, already embedded in the global economy, would be worse for working class people especially. Politically Trump has inspired the far right, xenophobes, racists misogynists and attacks on the working class across the world.
Worldwide the resistance of working class people is growing. Youth in Kenya, Mali and Senegal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, women in India and Mexico and pensioners in South Africa and Argentina are all rising up. In the US we are at the early stages of resistance that will only grow as the impact on the attacks on the working class are felt. But that resistance is in urgent need of unity and mass parties of the working class to overthrow capitalism and bring about the socialist transformation of society.The Committee for a Workers International has a presence in Africa, Asia, South America, the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe, Ireland, and Britain. The CWI campaigns for mass workers parties on a socialist programme to unify the struggles in every country. The CWI also bases itself on the understanding that socialism can only be achieved through the international collaboration of the oppressed and exploited working people internationally.
In SA the MWP continues its campaign to unify the struggles of the working class under a mass workers party on a socialist programme. As steps towards that we are proposing the unification of struggle in communities under a United Socialist Civic Federation, of students under a Marxist Student and Youth Movement, women under a Socialist Womens Movement and workers under a Socialist Confederation of Trade Unions.
The urgent need for socialists and workers to come together has never been greater. This Congress is a crucial moment for building international solidarity, exchanging ideas, and strengthening our collective fight against exploitation and oppression. Our comrade will bring the voices of South African workers to the global stage and return with invaluable insights to advance our local struggles. We are reaching out with an urgent call for solidarity. We have a unique opportunity to send a leading member of the Marxist Workers Party (MWP) as a delegate to represent our struggles and learn from the global working-class movement. The congress will be held in Germany in July 2025.
However, we cannot do this alone. We need to raise thirty-five thousand rands (R35 000) to cover travel, visa application, accommodation, and other expenses. Every contribution counts — whether R50, R500, or more, your solidarity will help make this possible.
How to Donate:
• Bank Transfer:
• Account Name: Izwi La Basebenzi
• Bank Name: First National Bank
• Bank Code: 250805
• Account Name Izwi a Basebenzi
• Account Number: 62027185489
Time is short, we urgently need your support. Let us show the power of internationalism by ensuring South African workers have a voice at the CWI Congress.
In solidarity
Weizmann Hamilton
Marxist Workers Party, South Africa
Contact Information: contact@marxistworkersparty.org.za or 0813667375
Together, we can make the journey to a socialist world a reality!
