South Africa:
from liberation to class struggle
South Africa today - the struggle continues, but on a new basis
“Break the BRICS!” - say the BRICS-from-below activists at the Johannesburg Teach-in of July 2018: Activists denounce what the governments and bourgeoisies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are doing. ( Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 3, 2018)
Detroit Workers' Voice on MLK Day, 2017: black lives matter more than ever. The article on MLK Day refers to the situation in South Africa and quotes from the Declaration of the NUMSA (Metalworkers' Union) Special Congress of December 17-20, 2013. The full text of the declaration can be found at https://www.numsa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/SNC-Declaration-final-copy.pdf. The link above to DWV also includes Reference Notes which cite in full Point 9, which calls for breaking with the "Tripartite Alliance" of the ANC, COSATU, and the South African CP. Detroit Workers' Voice #122, January 16, 2017.
MLK Day, 2016: Detroit Workers' Voice #119 includes the article "South African workers persist in struggle".
Will the Pan-Africanists support the South African metalworkers? - (DWV email list, February 15, 2015)
On occasion of MLK Day : Several articles including South Africa workers on the march, with the National Union of Metworkers of South Africa defying the ruling ANC. (Detroit Workers' Voice #116, January 19, 2015)
Belgium, Spain, Greece, and South Africa: world in struggle, part 1 (DWV email list, November 22, 2014)
On Martin Luther King Day ... the anti-racist struggle continues including a comment on the denunciation of the ANC and the ANC-led government of South Africa by NUMSA, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the largest union in the country (Detroit Workers' Voice #110, January 17, 2014)
Historic strikes rock South Africa, and the largest South African union, NUMSA, repudiates the ANC
(CV issue #49, Vol. 20, #1, August 1, 2014)
The divided legacy of Nelson Mandela: from the historic overthrow of apartheid to the Marikana massacre of striking black miners
(from the Detroit Workers Voice mailing list, December 11, 2013)
On the lesser imperialism of the BRICS bourgeoisies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa):
the "BRICS from below" counter-summit denounces the BRICS summit of March 26-27 in Durban, South Africa.
Denounce the massacre of striking platinum miners at Marikana, South Africa!
On the strike wave, the nature of the post-apartheid ANC government, the ugly stand of the South African Communist Party, and the path forward for the poverty-stricken working masses of South Africa (presentation at the Detroit Workers' Voice Discussion Group, September 30, 2012).
From the history of the struggle against apartheid
The mass struggle doomed apartheid, but the ANC leaders subordinated mass actions to negotiations in which they promised to preserve the economic power and privileges of the white business elite.
Millions strike in South Africa (from The Workers' Advocate, September 1, 1992). On the strike of August 3-4, 1992.
Black people take action: South African racism won't die quietly (from The Workers' Advocate, July 1, 1992).
South Africa: The politics of struggle and compromise (from The Workers' Advocate, July 1, 1992).
General strike sweeps South Africa (from The Workers' Advocate, December 1, 1991). On the strike of November 4-5, 1991.
Apartheid totters (from The Workers' Advocate, March 1, 1990).
What will ANC-De Klerk talks bring South Africa? (from The Workers' Advocate, March 1, 1990).
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