South Africa

The Monthly Survey - March 1995

Submitted on 27 April, 2011 - 23:33

Author:

John O'Mahony, Colin Foster, Wayne Nicholls, Bobby Navarro, Gerry Bates, Alan Pottage, Roland Tretchet

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Survey: intifada in West Bank; union recruitment campaigns; Labour Thatcherites in NZ; Natal's civil war

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 21:18

Author:

Clive Bradley; Lynn Ferguson; Tony Brown; Anne Mack

In response to the uprising (intifada) in the West Bank, which started in December 1987, Israel should be made to get out of the occupied territories and allow the formation there of a fully independent Palestinian state.

The GMB and TGWU unions have started a scramble to recruit hitherto untapped sources of union membership - public work schemes, young people, part-time workers, especially women.

Roger Douglas, minister of finance in New Zealand's Labour government, introduced a sweeping Thatcherite programme - flat-rate income tax, big privatisations - without even consulting the Labour parliamentary caucus.

Chief Buthelezi's conservative tribal movement Inkatha battled with trade unionists and the United Democratic Front (ANC) for control of the townships in Natal, South Africa.

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Forum: Crooke vs McCalman on Scotland; Ellis vs Weaver on movies; Fine, Rigby, and Bradley on S Africa; Conway vs Bradley on PR

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 20:19

Author:

Stan Crooke; Edward Ellis; Bob Fine, Tom Rigby, and Clive Bradley; Liam Conway

Stan Crooke disputes Ian McCalman's support for calls for a Scottish Assembly.

Edward Ellis disputes Belinda Weaver's argument that movie-making has deteriorated.

Bob Fine, Tom Rigby, and Clive Bradley dispute arguments dismissing the COSATU union federation in South Africa in favour of the NACTU federation.

Liam Conway argues that Trotsky's "permanent revolution" idea is more "applicable" today than Clive Bradley allowed for in his article in Workers' Liberty 7.

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The black working class

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 18:43

The potential, and the struggles, of South Africa's black working class, which rose in revolt in the years after 1973.

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Close to revolution

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 18:38

Successive waves of revolt have battered the apartheid regime. But the vast, sprawling black revolt needs a coherent leadership and strategy. Otherwise it could splutter out in heroic but uncoordinated rebellions.

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From diamonds to apartheid

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 18:34

A sketch of the economic and political history of South Africa from the start of the diamond industry to the introduction of apartheid.

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International solidarity: the case for direct trade-union links

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 18:30

How to build international solidarity with the fight against apartheid, and the case for direct links between trade unionists in South Africa and trade unionists in other countries - which the Communist Parties and their co-thinkers opposed on the pretext of "boycotting apartheid".

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Imperialism and capitalist development

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 18:26

Author:

Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the impact of British imperialism in South Africa.

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South Africa and Africa

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 18:23

The strategic interlinkings between South Africa and the rest of the continent.

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South African capitalism today

Submitted on 23 April, 2011 - 18:18

Documenting the huge economic inequalities and the political oppression of the apartheid regime.

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