The 1973 Durban strikes and the workers movement to end apartheid
The Sharpeville massacre in 1960 was followed by unparalleled repression of anti-apartheid and anti-capitalist organisations. This cleared the ground for...
Month: May 2023
Ordinary working people are being priced out of Accra and pushed into inadequate housing
Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn’t need the ongoing economic crisis to feel...
Films on disability, load shedding and black hair awarded at Khayelitsha festival
Young and upcoming film-makers who were part of last weekend’s three-day film festival at Bertha Movie House in Khayelitsha have...
e-News bulletin 5 May 2023
Gauteng hospital food shortages | May Day crumble | Palestinian hunger striker diesWorkers' World Weekly 5 May 2023
Media workers in Cameroon face rising, violent repression; the murder of journalists is Exhibit A
In 2019, Paul Chouta was held for two years at the Kondengui Central Prison in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde,...
Strike at Makro to spread to other Walmart-owned stores
The South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) announced during a press conference held in Johannesburg on Tuesday...
Costs of basic necessities going up and up
Most people in South Africa are struggling to survive in a context of high unemployment and skyrocketing prices for basic...
Women’s cooperatives overcome water wars and climate drought in Rojava
Ever since devastating twin earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria on the night of 5-6 February killing over 50,000 people and...
The decades-long legal struggle of Taiwanese electronics workers
In the late 1960s, the authoritarian government of Chiang Kai-shek invited the US firm Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to...
Jagersfontein seven months after mine dam collapse
The mining tailings dam collapse in Jagersfontein in September last year left a trail of destruction, despair, divisions within the...
