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“Freedom Isn’t Free – The Freedom Charter Today” : Anniversary screenings
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“Freedom Isn’t Free – The Freedom Charter Today” : Anniversary screenings

Sixty-three years ago on 26 June 1955, the Freedom Charter was signed by the Congress movement as a statement of its ideals and objectives for liberation. To mark this occasion, Workers' World Media Productions is screening our new documentary, Freedom Isn't Free - The Freedom Charter Today.

JOHANNESBURG CAPE TOWN
Tuesday: 26 June
Time: 5h30 pm
Venue: Human Rights conference room, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg		 Thursday: 28 June
Time:  6 - 8 pm
Venue: Bertha auditorium, Isivivana Centre
8 Mzala Road, Khayelitsha

 

Admission is free.

Synopsis from 2018 Encounters International Film Festival

Freedom Isn’t Free challenges the ANC government with its failure to bring into being the words and resolutions of the Freedom Charter signed at Kliptown in 1955 when, from all over the country, Congress of the People delegates assembled to forge a new path for South Africa.  Using excellent archival footage, intercut from that past into the present and informative commentary by new and older generations, the film demonstrates that for the overwhelming majority of South Africans, housed in sprawling shanty-towns, there has been little advance since apartheid ended – neither economically or educationally.

GIWUSA rejects the passing of the Labour Bills!

General Industries Workers Union of South Africa, press statement 30 May 2018

The General Industries Workers Union of SA (GIWUSA) is not surprised that the ANC government has rushed through the National Assembly the three Labour Bills – namely the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill, National Minimum Wage Bill and the Labour Relations Amendment Bill. The passing of these Bills represents a dark day in the history of the South African working class. The three passed Labour Bills together constitute a huge setback for the working class of South Africa. These Bills are part of the agenda of the Ramaphosa Administration to bring about reform to appease the rating agencies and local white monopoly capital. Their intention is to place more limitations on the workers’ main weapons in the arena of collective bargaining, i.e. strikes and pickets and to drive down the wages of the South African working class.