trade unions

South Africa: NUMSA to hold socialist conferences across the country; critical election looming

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South Africa: 'Leadership faction wants COSATU to be a toothless giant', declare nine affiliates

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South Africa: 'ANC in lucrative alliance with international capital', says NUMSA's Irvin Jim

Irvin Jim, NUMSA general secretary.

Exclusive excerpt from John Tully's 'Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike that ... Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement'

February 9, 2014 –

South Africa: Nine COSATU unions call for Zwelinzima Vavi's reinstatement

Zwelinzima Vavi.

United States: Chicago Teachers Union votes for independent political and electoral activity

Chicago Teachers Union members during their strike against Democratic Pa

Cambodia: Striking garment workers killed in brutal repression: interview, photos

Striking garment worker shows

South Korea: Rail workers strike against privatisation, general strike called

Railway workers' three-week strike against privatisation garnered wide support—and g

Britain: Looking back in anger -- the miners’ strike 30 years on

January 5, 2014 – Anticapitalis

United States: In 2013, workers tried new angles and alliances

North Carolinians mobilised against an anti-worker (and anti-woman

South Africa: NUMSA calls for new movement for socialism, end to ANC alliance

Delegates to NUMSA's special congress greet suspended COSATU general sec

Unite union leader on the struggle against climate change, and for socialism

Mike Treen on the picket line.