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 […]
Continue ReadingWeizmann Hamilton and Tinovimbanashe Gwenyaya are members of the Workers’ and Socialist Party (CWI in South Africa). Heroically leading ANC to power but struggle tragically into dead end The Democratic Socialist Movement offers condolences to the Mandela family and all those in South Africa and internationally who are mourning the passing of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. […]
Continue ReadingHassan Taiwo Soweta is National Youth Leader, SPN. Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) holds inaugural convention “Today we are beginning a new chapter in the history of Nigeria; a chapter that will be dominated by the political struggle of the working masses to take power and begin to take control of the destiny of this […]
Continue ReadingInterview with Hidouri Abdessalem, member of the regional UGTT office for secondary education, Sidi Bouzid from CWI Tunisia. The talks held between the government and the opposition parties, called the ‘initiative for a national dialogue’, were suspended on Monday 4 November. In short, this ‘initiative for a national dialogue’ is nothing but an attempt by […]
Continue ReadingDavid Johnson is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Independent workers’ organization and socialist program needed Twenty three thousand workers at Egypt’s largest factory, Misr Spinning, in Mahalla al-Kubra, went on strike on 9 October. They demanded payment of their bonuses that were withheld by management of the state-owned company. […]
Continue ReadingLiv Shange is a member of Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa). Both capitalists and working class prepare for unforeseen turmoil On August 16, 2012, at Marikana, a bloody line was drawn in South Africa’s political sand when police in cold blood shot dead 34 workers and wounded 78. The few seconds of the […]
Continue ReadingRobert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Increasing sectarianism threatens revolution’s future – Workers’ independent action urgently needed Millions across the world, and especially in the Middle East, have been shocked by the killing of hundreds of mainly unarmed people in the Egyptian military’s brutal clearance of the two pro-Morsi […]
Continue ReadingSerge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Two and a half years after the fall of Ben Ali, the situation has gone from bad to worse for the Tunisian population, and anger is brewing as never before across the whole country. The famous slogan of the revolution – “bread, freedom, […]
Continue ReadingAysha Zaki is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The revolution must continue! For a government of workers and the poor! During the last week of tumultous events in Egypt, Aysha Zaki has discussed with socialist opposition activists in Cairo about the mass movement to the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, the […]
Continue ReadingRobert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The stormy and bloody developments since the removal and arrest of President Morsi by the military mark a new, challenging and dangerous stage in the unfolding Egyptian revolution. Despite the huge, unprecedented mass mobilization against Morsi the absence of an independent, socialist based […]
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