On the Monday after Thanksgiving, General Motors (GM) announced in a written statement that they would be closing five plants and cutting 14,000 jobs. Included in the proposal for cuts are plants in Ohio, Michigan,...
Read More →Weizmann Hamilton, Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) Executive Committee member, South Africa With the passing of Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela, the African National Congress lost arguably the most beloved and certainly one of the greatest of...
Read More →No to profiteering! Rose Lichtenstein, Cape Town WASP (CWI in South Africa) Cape Town is facing its worst drought in almost 100 years. Rainfall was at a 100 year low two years in a row,...
Read More →Mametlwe Sebei, Workers and Socialist Party, Executive Committee (South Africa) The assassination of Lesotho Defence Force Chief, Lt-General Khoantle Motsomotso, on 5 September, by two fellow-officers and former-allies, themselves, in turn, killed by Motsomotso’s bodyguards,...
Read More →ANC leadership shaken by electrifying ten days Weizmann Hamilton, Workers and Socialist Party In the biggest student protest movement since the fall of apartheid, students at universities across South Africa embarked on an uprising against...
Read More →Report of World Perspectives Discussion at the 2015 CWI Summer School Growing poverty and inequality, unemployment, war and its horrific consequences, economic stagnation and crisis. These were some of the themes touched on by Judy...
Read More →Under severe pressure from the families of the victims of the Marikana massacre and threats of legal action, President Jacob Zuma released an inquiry report that exonerates the government....
Read More →Rebuild the Trade Union Movement on Socialist Principles The pro-ANC right-wing of the Cosatu leadership has accomplished what the apartheid regime could not and split the 2.2 million strong trade union federation. On the night...
Read More →“Planning Green Growth” is a pamphlet written by Pete Dickenson in August of 2002. Although it is an older piece, Dickenson’s analysis and argument is still an extremely important work on environmental sustainability. The Introduction appears...
Read More →From Socialism Today No.181, September 2014, by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of Socialist Party (England and Wales), CWI Secretariat The bloody conflict in Ukraine, alongside the slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza, has brought...
Read More →Significant step forward in the struggle for a living wage for all Workers’ and Socialist Party (WASP) statement: The Workers’ and Socialist Party today hails the resolution of the five-month-long strike in the platinum sector...
Read More →On the Monday after Thanksgiving, General Motors (GM) announced in a written statement that they would be closing five plants and cutting 14,000 jobs. Included in the proposal for cuts are plants in Ohio, Michigan,...
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