{"id":1021,"date":"2019-12-10T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marxistworkersparty.org.za\/?page_id=1021"},"modified":"2022-05-27T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T09:22:37","slug":"the-founding-of-cosatu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marxistworkersparty.net\/?page_id=1021","title":{"rendered":"The Trade Union Movement in the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Workers’ Struggle in the Early 1980s<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

1. Strike Wave Pounds Bosses<\/a><\/strong> (1981)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The 1980 Johannesburg Black Municipal Workers Strike<\/a> <\/strong>(1981)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. New Dispensation is in Tatters<\/a> <\/strong>(1981)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Hands Off the Trade Unions!<\/a> <\/strong>(1982)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Neill Aggett – Trade Union Militant<\/a> <\/strong>(1982)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Trade Union Unity Talks<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

6. Build the Trade Union United Front!<\/a> <\/strong>(1981)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Trade Union Unity \u2013 Which way forward now?<\/a> <\/strong>(1982)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Trade Union Unity<\/a><\/strong> (1984)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Founding of Cosatu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

9. Cosatu\u2019s Founding Congress<\/a><\/strong> (1986)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After Cosatu’s Launch<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

10. Organise Round Cosatu’s Ultimatum to Botha: “Six Months to Scrap the Pass Laws – Or the passes burn!<\/a> <\/strong>(1985)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. BTR Workers in Britain Say: \u201cOur Brothers and Sisters in South Africa Must Talk to Us\u201d<\/a><\/strong> (1986)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. Cosatu\u2019s Socialist Standpoint Should Be Boldly Publicised<\/a><\/strong> (1986)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Kinross Disaster – Mine Bosses are Guilty<\/a> <\/strong>(1986)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1987 Mineworkers’ Strike<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

14. Could the mineworkers have won?<\/a> <\/strong>(1987)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. After the Mineworkers\u2019 Strike: where does the revolution go from here?<\/a> <\/strong>(1987)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Debates in Cosatu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

16. What is “workerism”?<\/a> <\/strong>(1988)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. “Sabotaging machinery” is not the Workers’ Method<\/a><\/strong> (1986)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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