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Local government elections: Unite communities for an independent working-class political alternative
1. Use the elections to build working-class organisation The 2026 local government elections are taking place more than two years after the formation of the [...]
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa
MWP introduction We publish below an article by Peluola Adewale of the Democratic Socialist Movement, our sister organisation in Nigeria, whose internationalist argument has acquired [...]
After the collapse of the Cosatu Congress…
PART 1 · SECOND INSTALMENT The congress deadlock and the prospect of a split The first instalment examined the political context of the congress collapse [...]
After the collapse of the Cosatu Congress…
Union leaders fight each other instead of the capitalists and their government Introduction to the series The scenes at the Congress of SA Trade Unions [...]
EPWP VICTORY SERIES — ARTICLE 4
From Victory to Organisation — Build a United Campaign Against Precarious Work The victory of the 1,224 Gauteng EPWP workers brings this series back to [...]
Eleven Women Killed: Justice Now! Change a Society That Has Normalised GBV!
The discovery of the bodies of eleven women in Ekurhuleni has once again brought terror into the everyday lives of women across South Africa. Women [...]
CONDEMNING XENOPHOBIC INCITEMENT IN MOTHERWELL & NGCOBO: REJECTING ELECTORAL OPPORTUNISM AHEAD OF THE NOVEMBER 2026 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
We stand in firm, unyielding solidarity with working-class communities across the Eastern Cape and unequivocally condemn the escalating xenophobic incitement in Motherwell (Gqeberha), as well [...]
EPWP Victory Series: No 3 – From the Negotiated Settlement to EPWP — How Permanent Work Became Precarious Labour
The struggle of the Gauteng Expanded Public Works Programme workers did not arise from an accidental failure in the administration of a well-intentioned employment programme [...]
EPWP VICTORY SERIES: No. 2 – Building a Campaign from Below
The victory of the 1,224 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers did not drop from the heavens in the form of a CCMA arbitration award [...]
70 Years After the Women’s March: It Is Time to Build a New Working-Class Women’s Movement
South African women did not need another Women’s Month filled with speeches about empowerment while millions remain trapped by unemployment, poverty wages, violence, inadequate housing, [...]
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