South Africa

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!

Africa’s oldest liberation movement headed for split

Workers feel their power

Anti-immigrant attacks – a warning to working class

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%!

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"

Trade unionists and youth should not support either ANC leadership factions

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

ANC has failed the masses – Time for a new party of the working class

The entire labour movement should be outraged by the draconian actions of the National Office Bearers (NOBs) of the Chemical Paper, Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union.

In 1996, hardly 2 years after the ANC was elected, the leadership, having long since buried the Freedom Charter, abandoned the Reconstruction and Development Programme, replacing it with the neo-liberal capitalist Growth, Employment and Redistribution […]

Report of Democratic Socialist Movement conference, 5-6 October 2002

On 22 September, the Social Democrats and Greens succeeded in defending their government position in the national elections but with a very small majority.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called a two-day general strike for 1-2 October, to protest against the ANC government’s privatisation programme.

The last day of the Earth Summit completed the humiliation of the ANC government in what it had hoped would be its finest hour. ‘Civil society’ delegates walked out in disgust, Colin Powell was shouted down […]

ANC government harassment and sabotage cannot stop 30,000 marching. On Saturday 31 August, anti-globalisation activists were joined by thousands of workers, the unemployed and landless, who marched from the poor township of Alexandra outside Johannesburg […]

Cosatu’s announcement yesterday that it has lifted the suspension on the anti-privatisation programme and will be calling a two-day general strike on the 1st and 2nd October, is a direct result of the impact of […]

The struggle against privatisation in SA has entered a qualitatively new stage. At the end of August Cosatu will be holding a two-day general strike to protest against the government’s plan to privatise the Electricity […]