Croatia, Slovenia: 'The left is rising again'
Demian Vokši interviewed by Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Mike Treen: A critique of crisis theory
November 10, 2014 – Mike Treen, Unite Union national director, discusses why capitaism continues to have crises today and why they will continue with increasing severity
Rebellious Catalan vote rocks Spanish establishment
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United States: Impressive red-green electoral campaigns in New York, Maine
Brian Jones (left) and Howie Hawkins.
Eastern Europe: For whom the Wall fell? Balance sheet of the transition to capitalism
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Gerry Adams: 'The good old IRA'
November 7, 2014 – Léargas – November 1, 2014, was the anniversary of the execution by the British
Philippines socialists: 'We are squarely behind NUMSA and the principles it is fighting for'
November 12, 2014 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
To the comrades of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA),
The Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM, Party of the Labouring Masses), a socialist political party in the Philippines, sends its strongest solidarity to the comrades and leaders of NUMSA who are now fighting for the renewal of militant trade unionism and socialism in South Africa.
NUMSA was recently expelled in the Congress of South African Trade Unions federation through the maneouverings of its central executive committee. The central executive committee of COSATU supports the neoliberal program of the African National Congress government, while NUMSA does not. NUMSA has consistently opposed the neoliberal policies of the ANC government and stood for an independent trade union federation.
From the NUMSA press statement itself, we gathered that the real reason for NUMSA’s expulsion has been its consistent rejection of the ANC governmental policies which harm the interests of the workers and the South African masses.