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South Africa’s October 7th general strike – A Marxist balance sheet

October 17, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

The 7 October general strike called by Cosatu (Congress of South African Trade Unions) came against the background of an all-out assault on the working class by the ANC (African National Congress) government and the […]

South Africa

South Africa: Struggle for permanent jobs continues

October 13, 2020 Marxist Workers Party reporters

On the 12th of October, workers on the ANC government’s slave-labour Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) continued their struggle for permanent jobs and a living wage. Hundreds of EPWP workers took part in a day […]

South Africa

South Africa: Open Letter from Marxist Workers Party to South African Federation of Trade Unions

August 28, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

The Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) published an Open Letter to the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) in three parts on 18 August, 22 August and 24 August, ahead of Saftu’s upcoming […]

South Africa

ANC’s mishandling of covid crisis shows need for co-ordinated working class fightback

August 3, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) Reporters

Symbolic protests by left activists took place on 1 August in South Africa because of a growing feeling that something must be done. The country has been in lockdown for over four months but we […]

South Africa

South Africa: Struggle of workers at ‘Expanded Public Works Programme’ continues

June 21, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) Reporters

On 17 June workers marched in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding permanent jobs and a living wage of R12,500 ($700). Over 200 braved the severe winter cold snap gripping the country and the continuing lockdown restricting […]

Coronavirus

South Africa: Fight retrenchments, outsourcing and pay cuts in the aviation industry

May 7, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) Reporters

The cost of the Covid-19 industry-wide shutdown is being passed to workers in unpaid wages, compulsory leave, and retrenchments. Comair has followed SAA and SA Express into business rescue. Cabin crew and pilots are under […]

Coronavirus

South Africa: Organising working class communities under pandemic lockdown

May 6, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) statement

Two mile queues for food parcels. Corruption and patronage in their distribution. Shops being looted. Schools vandalised and burned. Collapsing household income. Confusion over accessing social grants. Tens-of-thousands of arrests and fines. Harassment, beatings, and […]

Coronavirus

South Africa: Militarised lockdown against the working class and poor

April 8, 2020 Shaun Arendse and Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI SA)

There is growing concern over police and military brutality in the enforcement of South Africa’s twenty-one-day lockdown regulations. Videos have circulated on social media of soldiers beating up and kicking residents in informal settlements, forcing […]

Coronavirus

South Africa: Covid-19 exposes bankruptcy of ANC’s capitalist policies

March 28, 2020 Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers' Party (CWI South Africa)

The 26 March countrywide lockdown South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced in an emergency attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus, has been hailed as the decisive intervention the pandemic required. Worldwide the number […]

South Africa

Video: South African ‘Expanded Public Works Programme’ slave-labour workers say, “enough is enough!”

February 5, 2020 senann

  The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is the South African ANC government’s slave-labour scheme. Workers are paid as little as R2,000 per month, for full-time work. The minimum wage in South Africa is R3,500. […]

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