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Johannesburg inferno that killed 77 an indictment of capitalist system in South Africa

September 25, 2023 Marxist Workers Party reporters

The inferno at the end of August that claimed the lives of 77 people, the majority burnt beyond recognition, is one of the worst indictments not just against the City of Johannesburg (CoJ), but the […]

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LISTEN | South Africa’s Deepening Political Crisis

September 9, 2023 Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI in South Africa)

A general election is due in South Africa in 2024. It will be the seventh since the hated apartheid system of racial oppression and segregation was dismantled. Across South African society it is viewed as […]

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SA general election approaches – a crisis of political representation for capitalist class and working class

August 14, 2023 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) reporters

One of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci’s most quoted phrases is his 1930 statement in the ‘Prison Notebooks’: ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; […]

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Employment Equity Act will not end inequality, mass unemployment and poverty in South Africa

July 18, 2023 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) Reporters

The amendments to the Employment Equity Act (EAA) signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa and due to take effect on 1st September 2023, has given rise to a new flare up of racial tensions. […]

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South Africa: ANC re-elects scandal-ridden Ramaphosa as party leader

January 6, 2023 Shaun Arendse, Marxist Workers Party (CWI, South Africa)

The African National Congress December conference re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as party leader for a second five-year term. He will therefore almost certainly lead the ANC into national elections in 2024. Although Ramaphosa remains ‘the most […]

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SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE | All-Out United Strike Action Needed

November 15, 2022 Shaun Arendse, Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

On 10 November the first national strike against the ANC-government’s assault on public sector pay took place. The Public Service Association (PSA), representing 230,000 of South Africa’s 1.2 million public sector workers, downed tools for […]

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South Africa: Make August 24 Shutdown the First Step in a Campaign of Rolling Mass Action

August 23, 2022 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

STRIKE AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER! NAME THE DATE NOW! RECONVENE THE WORKING CLASS SUMMIT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR – SET A LAUNCH DATE FOR THE WORKERS PARTY The South African Federation of Trade Unions […]

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Marikana 10 years on – Historical significance of uprising of South African mineworkers

August 18, 2022 Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI in South Africa)

There can be no tribute more fitting to the martyrs of Marikana than the South African Federation of Trade Unions’ planned National Shut Down on 24 August 2022 which is attracting support across the workers’ movement. A […]

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South African Federation of Trade Unions second congress: Ideological, organisational re-armament of the working class must begin

June 15, 2022 Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

The note of optimism and determination of the declaration issued at the end of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) Second Congress in May will be greeted with a sense both of relief […]

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Heroic Sibanye strike highlights tactical issues facing South African workers’ movement

June 7, 2022 Shaun Arendse, Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

The temperature of the class struggle is rising. 2022 has already seen a whole number of strikes in mining, metal, manufacturing, on farms, and in the public sector. Some have been brief skirmishes as workers […]

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