Tag: south africa
South African Clothing And Textile Workers Defend Their Rights
The Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) has hit back at media reporting on last week’s Pietermaritz High Court judgment on the...
Cosatu Will Defend Collective Bargaining Agreements!
THE Cosatu trade union federation has issued a special statement on the attack being launched in South Africa on free collective bargaining. ‘THE Congress of...
Platinum Miners Union Fighting For Recognition
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) is facing lengthy delays in companies signing new recognition agreements with the union which has replaced...
50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!
THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...
Marikana miners did not trust NUM –admits NUM President Zokwana
IT WAS impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to negotiate for striking miners at Marikana because of their aggressive attitude and their...
‘NATIONALISE MINES!’ – says South African mineworkers union
THE South African government must nationalise mines that Anglo American Platinum Ltd (Amplats) is laying idle, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)...
BRING DOWN COALITION IN 2013 – victory to World Socialist Revolution
2013 Manifesto – STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the year 2013 to the...
Police Had Planned To Shoot The Marikana Miners
The lawyer George Bizos, who represents the families of the 34 Lonmin miners shot dead by the South African police, has said the police...
Cosatu, the CP, the NUM and the police attack the Lonmin...
ON 27th October the Minister of Education and South African Communist Party General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, along with Cosatu and National Union of Mineworkers...
‘Consign capitalism to the Natural History Museum!’ –Jonty Leff tells Anniversary...
More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...
‘Revolution the only answer!’ Trotsky – News Line Anniversary rally told
UP TO 200 WRP and YS members and supporters marched through East London yesterday on the 43rd anniversary of the News Line daily newspaper...
Now Organise The General Strike!
SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...
500,000 March For Action To Bring Down The Coalition!
500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...
Sa Revolution Warning
STRIKE leaders at Gold Fields KDC West operations in Carletonville, Northwest province, South Africa, said yesterday that their industrial action will not end until...
Strike wave sweeping South Africa – NUMSA & Solidarity leaders slander...
THE revolutionary strikes that have been shaking the South African mine owners were a highly organised affair to promote the cause of nationalisation of...
Build Fourth International Throughout Africa
THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...
South African Strike Wave Spreads
THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...
South African miners defiant
A GROUP of 106 South African mineworkers, arrested following the police shooting at UK-based Lonmin’s Marikana mine, were released yesterday by the ...
Miners Defy Police & March To Lonmin Mine
THREE THOUSAND striking platinum miners marched to the Marikana Lonmin mine and forced the massed ranks of the riot police to retreat yesterday at...
SA miners strike spreads –as murder charges provisionally dropped
SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...
Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...
Platinum miners – murder charges
PLATINUM miners arrested at South Africa’s Marikana mine were yesterday charged with the murder of 34 colleagues shot by police. The police shootings sparked...
‘Lives sacrificed in the uncaring pursuit of profit’
CONTROVERSIAL India-based mining company Vedanta was again the subject of an angry protest in London yesterday. London Mining Network, Amnesty International, Survival International and other...
Platinum Miners Strike Spreads
MINERS at Eastern Platinum (Eastplats) in South Africa came out on strike yesterday, alongside the striking Marikana miners, in a sign that the strike...
Anc Leopard Will Not Change Its Spots!
TOP members of South Africa’s ruling ANC party met yesterday to discuss the political crisis that has emerged in the wake of the ANC’s...
More platinum miners join strike action!
MORE South African platinum miners came out on strike yesterday at the Royal Bafokeng Platinum mine outside Rustenburg, in the North West. They gathered...
‘We will never forget and we will never let those responsible...
A 400 strong packed meeting at Lambeth Town Hall on Tuesday night commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Sean Rigg in Brixton...
Lonmin forced to withdraw their sack threat!
UK-OWNED platinum mining giant Lonmin (the world’s third largest platinum producer) has been forced by the strength and defiance of the miners, supported by...
Striking SA miners defy sack threat
STRIKING platinum miners at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in South Africa defied the company’s sack threats yesterday and refused to return to work. The 3,000 striking...
Malema blames ANC leaders for massacre
EXPELLED ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema last Saturday blamed the ANC leaders for the massacre of 34 miners and the...
Nationalise Lonmin – forward with South African socialist revolution
The massacre of 34 striking miners at the hands of the ANC government’s police last Thursday marked a decisive point in the development of...
SA miners continue with strike action! –ANC & Zuma are condemned
SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...
Sa Police Massacre Platinum Miners
SOUTH AFRICAN workers have been shocked by the ANC government’s police force shooting dead over 30 miners at the Lonmin UK-owned platinum mine. Fifty...
Following Veto US Pledges To Act Outside The Security Council
RUSSIA and China on Thursday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that threatened sanctions against Syria and President Bashar al-Assad if he...
UK Did Torture Kenyans!
THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...
IndustriALL demonstrates at mine owners Glencore HQ
IN RESPONSE to mine owners Glencore and Xstrata’s arrogant refusal to meet with a delegation of IndustriALL global union affiliates to discuss labour issues...
Swazi Nurses & Teachers Taking Action!
IT seems an official nurses’ strike is looming in Swaziland after the union called a special urgent meeting scheduled for today. The meeting is...
Tensions emerge between the ANC and the unions
COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini has publicly endorsed the re-election of ANC president Jacob Zuma, thus exposing the tensions existing within the trade union federation. Dlamini,...
Wrp May Day Rally Salutes Palestinian Hunger Strikers And World...
‘A socialist revolution in this country will open up the whole of the world,’ Frank Sweeney, the General Secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party,...
Thousands March To Defend Rio Tinto Alcan Jobs!
THOUSANDS of people marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec province on Saturday to demand an end to the...
STOP DETENTION OF CHILD IMMIGRANTS! – Worldwide campaign launched
By Simon Parker, End Child Detention Now Co-ordinator End Child Detention Now campaigners have welcomed the launch of the International Detention Coalition’s Global report...
Clinton Accuses Bashir Of Undermining South Sudan!
AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...
100 Million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day –...
THE numbers of Nigerians living in poverty, in the midst of vast oil riches, has risen to nearly 61 per cent. Poverty has risen sharply...
‘WE ARE PREPARING FOR A HUGE BATTLE! says South African SAMWU...
‘We are preparing for a huge battle,’ said the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) at the weekend. In an extensive statement, SAMWU said: ‘Our...
Russia resisting regime change in Syria!
RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...