Trade Union – Marxist Workers Party

PUBLIC SECTOR PAY | Name Start Date for All-Out Indefinite Strike!

21 November, 2022

The public sector National Day of Action on 22 November is an extremely important step-forward. It has been called jointly by all three trade union federations with members in the public sector. This level of unity and coordination will be essential in the struggle to win decent wages, protect jobs and defend collective bargaining. There is the potential to bring 800,000 workers out in a one-day national strike in support. [click to read more]

10 NOVEMBER STRIKE | Now Organise a United All-Out Public Sector Strike

11 November, 2022

On 10 November the first national strike action against the ANC-government’s assault on public sector pay took place. The PSA one-day downing of tools followed a week of lunchtime pickets. Marches in several towns and cities ensured the voice of public sector workers was heard. The action was potentially an important beginning for a public sector general strike that is long overdue. [click to read more]

Lungiselela Ugwayimbo Jikelele LweCandelo LikaRhulumente

3 November, 2022

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]

Prepare For a Public Sector General Strike

28 October, 2022

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]

REVIEW: AUGUST 24 SHUTDOWN | Enormous Potential to Build a United Mass Movement Against the ANC Government and Capitalism Must be Seized

5 September, 2022

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]

Make August 24 First Step in Campaign of United Rolling Mass Action

23 August, 2022

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]

MARIKANA 10 YEARS ON | The Historical Significance of the Mineworkers Uprising

16 August, 2022

by Weizmann Hamilton There can be no tribute more fitting to the martyrs of Marikana than the SA Federation of [click to read more]

AUGUST 24 SHUTDOWN | Organise August 24 as First Step in a Campaign of Rolling Mass Action

12 August, 2022

The Saftu trade union federation is organising a National Shutdown on 24 August. The leadership has appealed to the leaders [click to read more]

SAFTU’S SECOND CONGRESS | The Ideological, Organisational and Political Re-Armament of the Working Class Must Begin

13 June, 2022

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]

Heroic Sibanye Strike Highlights the Tactical Issues Facing the Workers’ Movement

6 June, 2022

The temperature of the class struggle is rising. 2022 has already seen a whole number of strikes. Some have been brief skirmishes as workers test their strength against the bosses. The strike wave is posing afresh many of the tactical and strategic issues facing the workers movement. None more so than the strike in Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold mines which ended in an important victory. [click to read more]