Southern Africa

After striking for the right to elect their own shop stewards the workers are attacked by both – the mine- and trade union bosses!

Desperate economic situation exacerbated by world capitalist crisis

On Wednesday 20 October, the workers of the Mine Line/TAP Engineering factory in Krugersdorp, just outside Soweto, started an occupation of their workplace to stop the former owner from stripping the factory of machinery and […]

Appeal for solidarity

Solidarity needed!

Break the Tripartite Alliance – For a mass workers’ party on a socialist programme

Say no to job cuts and poverty wages!

Massive turn-out on ninth day of strike

DSM demands: General Strike to support public sector workers

Longer strike may follow after negotiations on Thursday

More than 41,000 police have been mobilised to deal with World Cup security.

5,000 sacked miners on strike

Cape Town is having its biggest moment ever, or at least since the afternoon Nelson Mandela spoke to the masses from the balcony of City Hall hours after being released from 27 years in jail.

South African riot police fired tear gas on hundreds of security stewards protesting against wage cuts, 90 minutes after the match between Germany and Australia in Durban.

The Conference of the Democratic Left (CDL) is an initiative to bring together left organisations, social movements and activists to confront the disastrous social, economic and political crisis in South Africa.

Tinkering or transformation?

Let them eat cake – the ugly backdrop to the beautiful game

Solidarity urgently needed!

Time for a workers’ alternative in world’s most unequal society

New government comes up against militant action

As class polarisation continues, black working class voters vest their hopes in Zuma …for now!

No solution on offer from Africa’s elite

Africa’s oldest liberation movement headed for split

Workers feel their power

Courage of masses in face of social catastrophe and brutal repression

Anti-immigrant attacks – a warning to working class

Mass unemployment, hyper-inflation and poverty

Does Zuma’s triumph mean victory for the working class?

The most significant strike since the ANC came to power.

Suspension of action cannot hide magnificent display of public sector workers’ power

Huge popular support for action puts ANC government under pressure

Whilst the government arrogantly insisted that anything above 6% was unaffordable, a commission on remuneration recommended that the president’s salary be increased by 57% and those of ministers by between 30% and 50%!

State thugs crackdown on protests

The struggle for social liberation continues

International solidarity plays role in victory

Demonstrations and clashes reminiscent of apartheid era

Coalition formed to fight job losses and poverty

Strike action shows workers are not prepared to see wealth polarization continue

Militant action needed to stop "jobs holocaust"

Following Zimbabwe’s 31 March general election in which the ruling Zanu-PF party won a "landslide victory," President Robert Mugabe has unleashed armed police against street traders and shanty town dwellers.

Trade unionists and youth should not support either ANC leadership factions

For the third election in succession, the Robert Mugabe-led Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) has thwarted the will of the people and retained power through rigged elections. This time it obtained a ’landslide’ – […]

After biggest ever public sector strike

Five hundred students from colleges in and around Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal marched in support of the demand of free education on Thursday, 9 September.

Black South African workers’ leader and fighter for socialism

Thursday 27 May the Socialist Student Movement at the Westville campus of the newly "merged" University of KwaZulu-Natal organised a march against the exclusion from financial aid of hundreds of students.

While South Africa is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the end of the Apartheid regime, students at Wits University in Johannesburg are protesting against cuts in university funding and cuts in student bursaries.

But lower poll indicates growing alienation