Category Archives: Trade Unions
DR Congo: tensions boil over into mass student protests against Kabila
By Ben Morken 29 January 2015 Over the last couple of days Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, had been rocked by a series of protests against the weak, reactionary and corrupt government of Joseph Kabila. … Continue reading
South Africa: Malema exposes government corruption in parliament
By Ben Morken 28 September 2014 The 5th parliamentary term has been unlike any of the others in the last 20 years of bourgeois democratic rule. In the four months since the elections in May, parliament has suddenly become a … Continue reading
Six years after Lehman Brothers’ collapse – another stage in the crisis of capitalism
Written by Rob Sewell Tuesday 16 September 2014 Signor Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has tried to call up spirits from the deep like the Shakespearean characters Glendower and Hotspur. “I will take whatever it takes”, he … Continue reading
The Bankruptcy of Individual Terrorism
By Leon Trotsky (1909) 23 July 2014 For a whole month, the attention of everyone who was able to read and reflect at all, both in Russia and throughout the world, has been focused on Azef. His ‘case’ is known … Continue reading
South Africa: Two hundred thousand metal workers on strike – bosses respond with lockouts
By Ben Morken 2 July 2014 On Tuesday, 1 July, hundreds of thousands of metal workers went out on strike in the engineering and metals sectors, bringing the industry to a complete standstill. The strike involves small, medium and large companies, … Continue reading
Lessons of the platinum miners’ strike
By Ben Morken 16 June 2014 The longest strike in South Africa’s history has ended. For nearly five long months, platinum miners affiliated to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) held out against the arrogance and intransigence of … Continue reading
South Africa: Can AMCU win the platinum strike?
By Ben Morken 09 June 2014 The strike by 70 000 – 80 000 mine workers affiliated to the Association of Mine workers and Construction Union (AMCU) in the platinum sector has now entered its fifth straight month, making it … Continue reading
Lwandle: Apartheid style evictions – the Callousness of South African capitalism
By Ben Morken 04 June 2014 Over the last two days South Africans were shocked by the scenes coming Lwandle, a poor community outside Cape Town where forced and brutal evictions of poor people took place on Monday.Beside the … Continue reading
Unemployment debate
Source: Militant, no. 86 (December 10, 1971) All workers in the labour and trade union movement should get copies of Hansard [the official government publication covering the House of Commons Daily Debates] for 22nd November, dealing with the debate on … Continue reading
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