Trade Union – Marxist Workers Party

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]

WORKERS DAY 2022 | Unite ALL Struggles

1 May, 2022

The following is the text of a pamphlet distributed at Saftu’s Workers Day event held in Pretoria. FOR A UNIFYING [click to read more]

WORKING CLASS SUMMIT DEBATES | The Workers Party Discussion Paper & the Crisis in Saftu

24 March, 2022

Over the last few weeks momentum towards convening a second Working Class Summit has been regained. The first Summit, convened [click to read more]

SAFTU CRISIS | What lies behind the attempt to oust comrade Vavi? How should Saftu respond?

22 March, 2022

members of the Numsa-sponsored Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP), threatens to throw Saftu and the entire workers movement into an even deeper crisis than it is in already. It is not just an attack on comrade Vavi, but on Saftu as a whole. [click to read more]

CLOVER STRIKE | Build Workers Unity in Struggle to Defeat Clover

7 February, 2022

The MWP salutes the combativity, courage and determination of the Clover workers as their strike, enters its third month, against plant closures, retrenchments, salary cuts and degraded working conditions. [click to read more]