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South Africa: Clover Strike is a Fight Against the Capitalist System

January 12, 2022 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) reaffirms our solidarity with the 5,000 Clover workers on strike since November 22, 2021. We fully support the workers’ demands and are calling for the escalation of demonstrations to kick off this year of struggle, both by the workers as well as those forces who stand in solidarity with them […]

South Africa Food Riots

July 15, 2021 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

Build Organized Working Class Struggle Against the Criminal Capitalist Class! South Africa is currently engulfed in food riots. Scenes from KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), Gauteng, Eastern Cape and the North West have shown masses of people rushing to secure what little they can from malls, grocery chains, and other shops. Many buildings have been set alight as […]

South Africa: Build for Continued Action Against the Bosses’ Budget!

February 20, 2021 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

24 February: Protest and Stay-Away against the bosses’ budget! Build for continued mass action! The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) supports South African Federation of Trade Union’s call for a National Stay-Away on February 24, when finance minister Mboweni is set to deliver another dose of brutal austerity in his budget speech. It’s #TimeToFightBack — as […]

South Africa: Major Victory for Clover Workers

December 29, 2020 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

ISA is proud of the role WASP played in mobilising support for the strike by Clover workers in South Africa, including international solidarity from Socialist Struggle Movement in Israeli-Palestine, where the headquarters of the company are located. After nine weeks of strike action, Clover workers have come out victorious with a collective agreement between Clover […]

South Africa: Workers Unite Across Federations in Nationwide Strike Action

October 16, 2020 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

Awakening a giant: the mighty working class is on the march Workers from all major union federations turned up in the thousands for the 7 October #CosatuNationalStrike. SAFTU, NACTU and FEDUSA called on their members to support this action, marking an end to the long paralysis in the labour movement and a historic moment of working […]

South Africa: Worker and student protests intensify

February 27, 2016 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

#OutsourcingMustFall campaign becomes point of reference for the working class Across South Africa protests and strikes by workers and students are continuing across the higher education sector. Protests at the University of the Free State (UFS) grabbed headlines on Monday night when protesting black workers and black students were attacked by white rugby supporters at […]

South Africa: Metalworkers’ union expelled from COSATU

November 28, 2014 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

Rebuild the trade union movement on socialist principles! WASP Reporters The pro-African National Congress (ANC) right-wing of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) leadership has accomplished what the apartheid regime could not and split the 2.2 million-strong trade union federation. On the night of 7/8 November – dubbed the ‘night of the long […]

South African Union breaks with ANC

December 27, 2013 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) decides to cut ties with the ANC In what will go down in history as the most important trade union congress since the founding of Cosatu in 1985 delegates at the special congress of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa have taken the bold and historic decision to […]