A New Trade Union Federation
Some years ago it was a common idea amongst voices on the left that a progressive working class movement could only be realised once the Congress of South African Trade Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Worker Struggles
Capitalism Rears its Ugly Head Once Again
De Beers Consolidated Mines has sold its remaining mines to Petra Diamonds and Ekapa, without consulting with workers and the National Union of Mine Workers. About 600 workers are now Continue Reading →
The Plight of Community Health Care Workers in the Northern Cape
“It is time for organizations working in the health sector to unite and arrest the appalling state of Community Health Care services in the Northern Cape” The two Northern Cape Continue Reading →
Skirmishes in the Trade Unions
Conflicts inside South Africa’s most prominent trade union federation, COSATU, have grown more acute in recent months. Its leadership finds itself trapped in faction fights, fuelled by self-seeking bureaucrats desperate Continue Reading →
Rhodes Must Fall, UCT Must Change
Statement by the University of Cape Town Workers Forum and the UCT Workers Solidarity Committee Black workers built UCT with their own hands in the colonial past. Black workers were Continue Reading →