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PODCAST #1: The Class Struggle in 2020
Interview with Weizmann Hamilton, General Secretary of the Marxist Workers Party. [click to read more]
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SAA: ANC Government & Big Business Retaliate
Workers Movement Must Oppose Business ‘Rescue’! [click to read more]
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PART TWO: For Mass Working Class Struggle & a Bold Socialist Programme to Break with Capitalism
One working class – one struggle. For a trade union united front against job losses, privatisation and austerity. What role should Saftu play? [click to read more]
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PART ONE: SA’s Economic Crisis – No Way Out for the Working Class Under Capitalism
South Africa is going through its most serious economic crisis of the democratic era. What characterises this crisis, probably more than any other before it, is that there is no solution on a capitalist basis. [click to read more]
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Only Workers Unity Can Overcome Xenophobia
Full responsibility for the outbreak of xenophobic violence must be laid at the door of the Ramaphosa ANC government. [click to read more]
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2019 Election Results
The 2019 general elections will be seen, in time, as the most important since the advent of democracy. For the first time since 1994, less than half of the voting age population cast their ballots. There are 35.8 million eligible voters. Of these 26.8 million are on the voters roll. In other words approximately 9 million are not registered. Only 65.9% of registered voters went to the polls. [click to read more]
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Reserve bank nationalisation: ANC window dressing
On 7 March President Ramaphosa announced in parliament that the ANC government will nationalise the Reserve Bank. However, coming from the billionaire Ramaphosa, this latest announcement is not aimed at genuinely transforming the lives of working class and poor people. [click to read more]
Capitalism's ANC Crisis
The Ramaphosa Presidency
Ramaphosa’s government is a bosses’ government through to its bone marrow. Ramaphosa’s first budget ensured that the poor and the working class will pay the main price for capitalism’s failures. [click to read more]
Capitalism's ANC Crisis
Zuma Ousted
Inside two months following his election as ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa has realised the ambition he reportedly set himself whilst still at high school – to become the country’s president. [click to read more]
Capitalism's ANC Crisis
2017 ANC Conference
Irrespective of the outcome of a possible court process, however, the ANC’s 54th national conference has failed spectacularly to resolve the underlying divisions in the factional war for control of the ANC. [click to read more]