Africa

The launch of the Workers & Socialist Party was the direct outcome of the struggles of the mineworkers of South Africa throughout the course of last year.

“A political party has been born in the aftermath of the Marikana mine massacre – the Workers’ and Socialist Party (Wasp)”, media report

Launch surpassed all expectations

"The crucial question now is not if or what, but how to begin immediately to build a Working class political alternative"

Ruling establishments have long tried to ‘domesticate’ international women’s day – to shed crocodile tears for the victims of gender oppression

“You cannot buy the bravery of the South African mineworkers: no surrender!”

Hundreds-strong meeting hears speeches from visiting CWI members

Hardening solid gold

Statement on the retrenchment threats by Anglo America n Platinum and Harmony Gold

Representatives from miners’ strike committees, community groups, trade unions and left organisations met to discuss development new Workers & Socialist Party

Further slide into chaos and anarchy

Mass protest at court – urgent solidarity needed

For a mass struggle of workers and poor to defeat imperialism and fundamentalist reaction

South African press announces founding of Workers’ and Socialist Party

Workers lives are threatened after a week without food, access to medication

WASP will now mobilise support for the party

Over five activists have been arrested and are being brutalized by the Lagos State Police Command

Incurable socio-political crisis requires an urgent working class alternative

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex (LGBTI) activists, together with human rights campaigners, protested outside the Ugandan High Commission in London on Monday 10 December against a repressive new bill currently going through the Ugandan […]

The background to the wave of miners’ strikes across South Africa and how this movement is showing the way forward for workers and the poor across the country

Interview with miners’ leader Hoshoko Letshoba

Opulence for robber capitalist elite but no boom for working masses

The class struggle in South Africa is far sharper than in many countries. Socialist consciousness is far higher among the powerful, industrial working class.

International Solidarity needed

National Strike Coordinating Committee launched on 13 October

Spread of committees needed to prepare for general strike

Step towards national coordinated strike action

The struggle for a new mass workers’ party with a socialist programme

The “Joint Strike Coordinating Committee” of all mines on strike in Rustenburg calls for a march next Saturday to confront the government. It argues for a general strike for a national living wage of R12,500 […]

Mine workers’ strikes boosted by success at Lonmin – coordinating committee needs solidarity

“We are inspired to continue the fight in the mines which continue to resist our united action.”

ANC leadership has shown since the massacre that the gulf between it and the masses is now unbridgeable

ANC (Afrika Ulusal Kongresi) yöneticileri bu katliamladan bu yana, kendisiyle kitleler arasındaki uçurumun şimdi hiç kapatılamayacak kadar olduğunu gösterdi.

Massacre of South African miners and Betrayal of the ANC

Press reports on impact of Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI)

CWI solidarity actions continue as struggle rumbles on

Murder and attempted murder charges against miners detonates a volcano of rage

Reports of CWI-organised lobbies in Ireland, Israel, Austria

“This is not our government”

Protesters in front of embassy demand end of killing and support the miners

South African police massacres striking workers at Marikana – call for protest action

…Free education is a right, not a privilege!

Withdraw the troops from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)! Keep PHCN public under democratic control of workers and consumers

Struggle to defend children’s right and for a better society

For nation-wide union-led mass actions and a 48-hr general strike

Anger from below, manoeuvres from the top

Urgency of a working class alternative proven again

May Day should have offered opportunity for workers to pose their demands and agitation before the government