NEW MEMBERS | Why I joined the MWP
A new member explains why he has decided to join the Marxist Workers Party.
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 is heading for disaster. The working class needs to take charge. But how can the mass of the working class be mobilised to do this? Because that is what it will take to switch tracks and avoid the oncoming train-smash.
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.
Return to School: Safety Must be Priority
The decision of when to open and close schools should be under the control of local communities based primarily on health consideration. The SGBs have shown their willingness to toe the government line. We call for the creation of School Safety Committees made up of democratically elected representatives of teachers, parents and learners from grades 7 and up.
CAMPAIGN | Organise Against Unemployment
The fragmentation of the working class that is developing as a result of the jobs bloodbath needs to be stopped in its tracks with a programme of action that can unite the working class. The core idea must be that the working class will not be made to endure poverty because of capitalism’s crisis. The demand on the bosses and their politicians must be: JOBS FOR ALL! This must be accompanied by the demands that the SOCIAL RELIEF OF DISTRESS GRANT IS MADE PERMANENT AND INCREASED TO R3,500 PER MONTH and THE MINIMUM WAGE IS INCREASED TO R12,500 PER MONTH.
“All changed, changed utterly” – A New Era of Class Struggle & Capitalist Crisis
Statement by the International Secretariat of the CWI 8 June 2020 The words of W.B Yeats, from his poem ‘Easter 1916’, sum up the current world […]
EPWP BULLETIN #11 | Back to the Streets for Permanent Jobs
On Wednesday 17 June EPWP workers will protest outside the Gauteng Legislature in Joburg.
USA | Anti-racist Movement Reignited by Death of George Floyd
On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. A released video recorded by bystanders shows Floyd repeatedly pleading, “I can’t breathe”, as officer Derek Chauvin crushes his neck for nearly ten minutes.
USA | What’s next for the anti-racist movement?
The current anti-racist protest movement lacks organization, leadership, and democratic decision-making structures. Without these, it is vulnerable to fizzling out without achieving lasting change, as people succumb to protest fatigue.
COVID-19 Response
All the countries we are supporting are starting to impose restrictions to slow the spread of the virus. We have sent relief goods to over a thousand families to help them survive this pandemic…
