July 6 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT (7.30pm UK BST) FREE 12:30 PM CST/1:30 PM EST 7:30 PM SOUTH AFRICA/NAMIBIA/UK BST The destruction of workers in Southern African including in South Africa and Namibia is escalating. Workers are being forced into contract labor which was the type of labor under apartheid conditions. These panelists will report on the fight against union busting and also the … [Read more...]
“THIS IS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT!” The coming election in South Africa
Listen to the discussion HERE. The 7th election on 28th May, after 30 years of African National Congress rule. A WIN discussion May 2024. Thirty years ago the world celebrated democracy and the coming to power of the ANC, a liberation movement. The hope then was that freedom would end brutal poverty and bring jobs, free health care, free higher education, housing, and real equality. These hopes … [Read more...]
WE WON AGAINST APARTHEID, WE MUST STOP GAZA GENOCIDE!
The call for international action comes from Jabu Nala-Hartley, whose mother led the South African metal workers against apartheid in the 1970s - 80s. Jabu is an Oxford City councillor who has joined others in resigning from the Labour Party in protest against Starmer’s support for the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Solidarity action must be strengthened; dockworkers in India, … [Read more...]
MARXIST WORKERS’ EDUCATION: Challenges and possibilities
MARXIST WORKERS’ EDUCATION: Challenges and possibilities (youtube.com) A WIN Discussion, December 2023. Internationally there are challenges in workers education. The class struggle and deeper theoretical perspectives of Marxism are absent in most of those offerings. The methods and means of much instruction tends to become seminars hosted in hotels, the most expensive and the least productive … [Read more...]
OPENING THE FRONT LINE AGAINST APARTHEID!
Photo - WEAVERS LEADING THE STRIKES OPENING THE FRONT LINE AGAINST APARTHEID! A celebration of the mass strikes of 1973. May 2023 - YouTube A celebration of the mass strikes of 1973 A WIN Discussion, May 2023. Fifty years ago, at the height of apartheid, came the greatest strike movement in South African history. Early in 1973, in Durban – South Africa’s major port, and Africa’s biggest … [Read more...]
A SPECIAL APPEAL – SUPPORT THE SOUTH AFRICAN DOCKERS’ STRIKE WITH RESOLUTIONS, MESSAGES OF SUPPORT AND A DONATION!
Comrades, in a historic development all docker unions in South Africa are now on strike against a miserable wage offer and in disgust with the corruption and mismanagement of state owned entities such as Transnet which has been bankrupted: now the workers are forced to make up these losses with no real wage increases. Urgent: please send personal and union resolutions and financial support to … [Read more...]
GET UP, STAND UP! UNITING THE WORKING CLASS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
A WIN Youtube Discussion, October 2022 (3) GET UP, STAND UP! UNITING THE WORKING CLASS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. WIN Discussion October 2022 - YouTube Following the heroic struggles of workers in Namibia, South Africa, eSwatini, Zimbabwe and elsewhere for independence, the results have been disastrous. Rather than workers’ democracy and social progress, neo-liberal policies and repression have … [Read more...]
CLOVER STRIKE STRADDLES SOUTH AFRICA AND ISRAEL
SUPPORT THIS INTERNATIONALIST STRIKE! by David Hemson “This strike is bigger than a strike; a victory would set a precedent with great geopolitical implications and encourage other workers internationally to take similar action.” - Mametlwe Sebei, President of the General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa. As lightning, a strike illuminates all that is shady and sets out the hard … [Read more...]
SUPPORT THE CLOVER WORKERS – DEFEND WORKERS’ RIGHTS! SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE! Recorded Sunday 30th January 2022
SUPPORT THE CLOVER WORKERS - Sunday 30th January - A Workers’ International Network meeting - YouTube Post-apartheid South Africa has moved from the promise of reform to outright capitalist policies, leading to a precipitous fall in employment and mass misery for the workers. Corporate bodies have ruthlessly exploited the open economy. One graphic example is the Israeli company MILCO, which has … [Read more...]
SOUTH AFRICA:
Debating a Workers' Programme for Reconstruction Less than three decades since the ANC came to power, South Africa has been convulsed by possibly the greatest upheaval in its history. Desperate poverty has driven tens of thousands in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng to looting, extensively and repeatedly. Trucks, factories and malls have been set alight, and ports and railways in KwaZulu-Natal … [Read more...]