trade unions
Caroline Lund: Reflections of a trade union militant and socialist
Caroline Lund at work.
By Barry Sheppard
Nelson Mandela with fellow accused Ruth First (centre) and Congress of Democrats s
South Africa: NUMSA hosts international symposium of left parties and movements, August 7-10, 2014
Internationalism: Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa sing their solidarity with the people of Gaza. Filmed at a demonstration in Port Elizabeth on July 25, 2014.
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By Castro Ngobese, NUMSA national spokesperson
August 5, 2014 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will be hosting an International Symposium of Left Parties/Movements in Benoni, Kopanong Hotel, from August 7-10, 2014, under the theme: “Building our own Movement for Socialism: Learning the Lessons First Hand”.
The symposium is in line with NUMSA’s groundbreaking resolutions taken at our special national congress held in December 2013. The NUMSA delegates who attended the special national congress mandated the national leadership structures to “explore” the establishment of a Movement for Socialism given that the working class needs a political organisation committed in its policies and actions to the establishment of a Socialist South Africa.
Governing with the people: some examples from Bolivia
Bolivia's controversial new child labour law allows children under the age of 14 to work, but only in
Australia: Socialist Alliance May Day statement -- 'More pain for workers, pensioners, poor'
Protesters outside Tony Abbott's $39
China: 48,000 Adidas, Nike, Timberland strikers need your solidarity
The strike at the Yue Yuen shoe factory in Dongguan, China, keeps growing: now 48
Swaziland: COSATU condemns arrest of PUDEMO secretary general
People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) general secretary Mlungisi Makhanya in jail for wearing his party's T
Scotland: Trade unionists debate independence, 'yes' gets the nod