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By Liv Shange
Following
the launch of the new Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) on March
21, the work is ongoing to, on the one hand, complete the formal
registration of the party and, on the other, sink its roots and
establish its structures across South Africa.
The main
focus is now on a campaign for real jobs, real wages and decent
working conditions for the hundreds of thousands of workers who are
exploited at ‘volunteers’ in the public sector, linked to the
struggle for the most basic public services such as electricity and
housing in working class areas, as well as the mineworkers’ demands
for a living wage and against shaft closures.
Democratic
Socialist Movement (DSM – the CWI in South Africa) and mineworker
activists are building WASP through such protests in the mining
communities outside Johannesburg and in Limpopo. On May Day, WASP
is holding a rally in Carletonville, the gold mining town south of
Johannesburg, aimed at tying all these campaigns...
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Friday, 22 March 2013 17:52 |
Launch surpassed all expectations
CWI reporters, South Africa 21 March 2013
Over 500 Tshwane workers, mineworkers’ delegates, trade
union and community activists packed Lucas Van Den Bergh Community
Hall in Pretoria for the launch of the Workers & Socialist
Party today. The hall could not accommodate the turnout...
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Friday, 15 March 2013 07:12 |
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By Aysha Zaki, Committee for a Workers International (CWI)
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Friday, 08 March 2013 13:49 |
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It was socialist women
fighters who made March 8 the international day of women’s struggle
over a century ago. On March 8 1917, it was women textile workers
in Petrograd who set the Russian revolution in motion by going on
strike ‘for peace and bread’. The ruling class establishments
worldwide have long tried to domesticate the day into another
occasion to shed crocodile tears for the victims of the
gender...
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Friday, 22 February 2013 17:54 |
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“You cannot buy the bravery of the South African
mineworkers: no surrender!”
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
General Secretary
“I look at my 11 month old son and I am fearful for his future
if I am retrenched [dismissed],” commented one mineworker at the
historic conference of the...
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