Workers’ Solidarity was the Magazine of the Workers Solidarity Federation, published from 1995 to 1999. In total, 8 issues were published.
Contents of Volume 4, Number 2
- EDITORIAL: South Africa’s transition goes sour
In 1994, people danced in the streets after the results of the elections were announced. How far have we come in the five years since that time? - The Alliance: An unhappy marriage
At the heart of current problems within the Tripartite Alliance (ANC, SA Communist Party, COSATU) is a central fault line- GEAR - Parliament is a rotten system – the union is your party
Parliament is not now, nor will it ever be, a road to workers freedom
- Class Struggles in Africa
- Zimbabwe: “This is Class War”
As we go to press, riots have broken out in Zimbabwe - Zambia: “Democratic” politicians get fat as bosses starve the workers
86 percent of the population lives below the poverty line and the country appears to be near collapse - Nigeria: Death of a tyrant, death of a democrat – but no freedom until capitalism is dead too!
Ordinary Nigerian people took to the streets in celebration on June 8 after hearing that murderous dictator General Sani Abacha, 54, had died - Lesotho: Was it revolution?
Was the mutiny by rebel soldiers in the Lesotho Defence Force in the week before the invasion actually a class war in defence of democracy?
- Zimbabwe: “This is Class War”
- The struggle for the land
The real violence on the land is not criminal attacks on farmers- it is the farmers’ exploitation and oppression of workers and labour tenants. - Will low wages create more jobs?
The bosses and the government say that low wages will lead to more jobs - Focus: Unemployment crisis
South Africa is in the midst of an unemployment crisis unprecedented in its history - Unions must organise the unemployed
30% of all economically active people in South Africa are unemployed - Right wing ‘social movements for unemployed’
These movements are opposed to the organised working class - Every worker must condemn attacks on foreigners
A march by the “Unemployed Masses of South Africa” murdered three immigrants - Union investment arms: A disaster in waiting
Unions were not designed for profit-making but to protect the workers from greedy bosses - The “Non-Aligned Movement” and mass murder in the Third World
The NAM summit saw South Africa trying to play a leading role in sub-Saharan Africa as a regional power-broker - SADC : No friend of the working class
SADC has intervened militarily in both Congo and Lesotho. SADC is a regional coalition of governments - Why we say Asifune GEAR
In June 1996, the ANC-led government adopted the Growth, Employment and Redistribution
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