The Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) was actively involved in the student struggle, often participating in actions by the South African Students Congress (SASCO) or the Socialist Student Action Committee (later, Socialist Worker Students, later Keep Left). Below is a newsclipping of a regional SASCO march in Gauteng, in which WSF participated. That did not mean uncritical support for SASCO, which was part of the African National Congress (ANC)-led movement: in the case below, SASCO was responding to serious cuts on higher education spending by the ANC-led state by marching on big business (the Johannesburg Stock Exchange/ JSE), a sleight-of-hand that avoided dealing with the contradiction of SASCO supporting the ANC despite ANC neo-liberalism.
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