Women around the world will be marking International Women’s Day in a variety of ways. Protest demonstrations can be expected in many countries against the oppression that women face. [click to read more]
The announcement of indefinite strike will be warmly welcomed by the whole working class. The unions should be applauded for standing firm in the face of the government’s insolence. [click to read more]
The Marxist Workers Party sends its support and solidarity to all protesters in Sri Lanka and supports the demands of the Aragalaya movement and the Movement for People’s Councils. An International Day of Action is taking place today with protests and pickets taking place outside Sri Lankan embassies in different countries. [click to read more]
Iziganeko zale veki iphelileyo zizise icandelo likarhulumente kumda wesitrayiki ekudala silindelwe. Abasebenzi kufuneka balixhakamfule ithuba lokutshintsha ngokugqibeleleyo ulungelelwaniso lwamandla kuluntu lube ngecala labo. [click to read more]
The events of the past week have brought the public sector to the threshold of long-overdue strike action. The working class must seize the opportunity to shift the balance of forces in society decisively in its favour. [click to read more]
We believe that the time is right to attempt to unite community organisations. We are therefore calling for the creation of a countrywide socialist civic federation and appealing to community organisations to begin working with each other toward that end. In this booklet we outline our analysis of the causes of the crises of poverty, unemployment, service delivery and crime that working class and poor communities face and a programme of action to address them. [click to read more]
The Ukraine war has entered a new and more dangerous phase, greatly adding to the instability of global capitalism. [click to read more]
The growing demand for working class unity took a step forward on the August 24 National Shutdown. Throughout the day “working class unity” was the one rallying call guaranteed to receive thunderous applause and deafening cheers. But workers will have to take matters into their own hands to ensure that August 24 is cemented as the opening act of a campaign of rolling mass action and to consolidate the important steps toward unity that have been taken. [click to read more]
The National Shutdown is potentially an important step forward for the working class. The Shutdown is acting as a lightening-rod for the anger across society at increasing prices, low wages, unemployment, cuts to services, crime, gender-based violence etc. [click to read more]
The note of optimism and determination of the declaration delegates issued at the end of Saftu’s Second Congress (23-26 May 2022) will be greeted with a sense both of relief and encouragement by Saftu members and the working class as a whole. [click to read more]
CWI Updates & Analysis
How can we build a class-independent and united movement of militant, democratic worker-led trade unions? Join us and become part of the conscious and organised struggle for revolutionary trade unionism. [click to read more]
Marikana drew a line in the sand dividing the post-apartheid era into two epochs. [click to read more]
In the Marxist Workers Party we argue that the many women and young people radicalised by the struggle against gender oppression and GBV should look towards a united movement of the working class. It is only the working class which has the power to fundamentally transform society, abolishing capitalism and the class inequalities that gender oppression is rooted in. [click to read more]
We believe that the time is right to attempt to unite community organisations. We are therefore calling for the creation of a countrywide socialist civic federation and appealing to community organisations to begin working with each other toward that end. In this booklet we outline our analysis of the causes of the crises of poverty, unemployment, service delivery and crime that working class and poor communities face and a programme of action to address them. [click to read more]
On the 45th anniversary of the school students’ revolt of 1976 we are re-publishing in a new booklet The Soweto Uprising by Weizmann Hamilton, general secretary of the MWP. Weizmann’s 1986 article draws-out the lessons of the historic 1976 youth revolt. It was originally written to arm the working class youth struggling against apartheid with the ideas and method of Marxism. The youth movement of the 1970s and 1980s is still rich in lessons for young activists. This new introduction by Shaun Arendse takes these lessons and applies them to the situation facing young people today. [click to read more]
Mugabe’s removal may be the trigger that re-ignites mass movements, something that would pose urgently the need to draw the lessons of past struggles in Zimbabwe and beyond. [click to read more]
The history of the emergence and development of capitalism is at the same time the history of the emergence and development of racism. [click to read more]
A forerunner of the MWP, the Marxist Workers Tendency was an organised revolutionary Marxist/Trotskyist group that operated inside the ANC during the apartheid years. Active both in exile and within South Africa the MWT was an affiliate of the Committee for a Workers International, participating with them in the struggle for socialism worldwide. [click to read more]
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