March 2020 - Marxist Workers Party

LOCKDOWN! Covid-19 Exposes Bankruptcy of ANC’s Capitalist Policies

The government had time to prepare for this calamity. But it spent all its time devising an austerity budget to cut social spending and wages. What is worse is that the government is completely unprepared for the economic fall-out from the pandemic.

Administrator 27 March, 2020

Comment & Analysis

Eskom & the Loadshedding Crisis

The capitalist class are not trying to resolve the Eskom crisis in the interests of the working class majority. Rather, they are jockeying for position amongst themselves for a slice of the enormous wealth that Eskom controls...

Administrator 26 March, 2020

Coronavirus CWI Statements

Coronavirus Plunges Capitalism into Global Turmoil

The Need for a Socialist Alternative. Statement from International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers International - 23 March 2020

Administrator 25 March, 2020

Coronavirus

COVID-19 #1: The Class Struggle Continues

The coronavirus will be used by the bosses to excuse a thousand sins against workers in the coming weeks and months. This is the real class content of “a united nation”. It is an appeal to unite behind the capitalist class and accept their leadership in the crisis.

Administrator 16 March, 2020

Coronavirus

COVID-19 #2: World Economy Infected

The biggest one-day fall in stock markets since the financial crisis; an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia; and the fastest drop in the cost of oil for 30 years. The impact of coronavirus on an already fragile world...

Administrator 16 March, 2020

Coronavirus

COVID-19 #3: Crisis Shakes Chinese Regime

China is a vast country, with the biggest population in the world, but one in which a multi-million state machine stifles initiative and fears the voice of the people. A small but very rich capitalist elite rules in the name of ‘communism’ but generally operates according to the laws of the market.

Administrator 16 March, 2020

EPWP Workplace Struggle

EPWP BULLETIN #8: DID Humiliated in Labour Court

On 9 and 10 March EPWP workers protested in Johannesburg and Pretoria outside offices of the Department of Infrastructure Development. In Johannesburg workers refused to leave until they got clear answers from management...

Administrator 14 March, 2020

Women's Struggle

International Women’s Day and the Struggle Against Oppression

Women's oppression is not new. It is as old as history and the division of society into classes. It takes many forms and so does the fight against it. It is significant that women who feel the urgent need for change have been to the fore in all the recent uprisings against dictatorial rule and for genuine democracy - be they in Algeria, Hong Kong, Chile or Lebanon.

Administrator 8 March, 2020Women's Struggle

Comment & Analysis

Budget 2020: Analysis

The budget announced by Tito Mboweni, signifies the most serious attack on the working class since the ANC came to power. The capitalist class, backed by the opposition parties, including the EFF ‘radical economic transformation’ posturers, welcomed the budget.

Administrator 3 March, 2020