Marikana

NUMSA Breaks with the ANC

Finally more than a year after the massacre at Marikana, a major union is in the process of breaking politically from the Tripartite Alliance of the ANC, SACP and COSATU that has ruled over imperialism’s super-exploitation of South Africa since 1994. The National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) will not campaign for the ANC in the…

Marikana Solidarity up against Centrism and modern Menshevism

In periods of working class upheaval (like those most starkly exhibited today in MENA, Greece, Southern Africa, Spain, and China) the working class struggles to free itself ideologically, politically and organizationally from the shackles imposed by generations of reformers, class collaborationist workers’ and bourgeois-workers parties which, when given the opportunity, willingly administer capitalism’s austerities against…

South Africa Miner Benefit Screening: Roadmap to Apartheid

11/11/2012 Benefit Screening of “Roadmap To Apartheid” For South African Miners The Transport Workers Solidarity Committee invites you to A benefit screening of Roadmap To Apartheid Sunday  Nov. 11@ 2:00 PM518 Valencia St.San Francisco, CAThe Transport Workers Solidarity Committee invites you to the premier Bay Area screening of “Roadmap To Aparthied” this film by Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson…

BEWARE FALLING BRICS: SOUTH AFRICA AND CHINA

Strategic Alliance: Jacob Zuma bows to Hu Jintao The Marikana Massacre has exposed the reactionary ANC regime as a client state of imperialism. The ANC is attempting to head off a growing mass uprising of workers by building a new ‘strategic partnership’ with China in the hope that this will produce ‘win-win’ deals to allow…

Victory to the South African Miners! Solidarity Forever!

South Africa: Down with the Tripartite Regime! Launch a General Strike Movement!  For a Workers Government! Build up Strike Committees, Workers Councils & Workers Militia! Since the Maritlwana (aka Marikana) massacre on August 16, the historic betrayal of the ANC settlement in 1994 with imperialism is now coming under growing challenge from below, led by…