The public sector strike victory has been won despite, not because of, the SACP, writes Peter Manson As I write, the two-week South African public sector strike that has particularly hit schools and hospitals is on the verge of being settled. Over a million workers belonging to unions affiliated to the Congress ...
A festival of sporting genius, or an incitement to chauvinism? James Turley looks at the contradictions of the football extravaganza. The world’s eyes are on South Africa - and not because of Aids epidemics or the legacy of apartheid. The French nation is locked in mutual recrimination, the English narrowly avoiding the same fate by hanging ...
Communist Students have recently been in contact with comrades from the Socialist Student Movement in South Africa. They have asked us to publicise their struggle for democratic rights. Please read their article 'Don’t let the SRCs turn UKZN into a Banana Republic'. We will keep in touch with our comrades from the SSM and ...