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 Wednesday June 13, 2007 19:53 by Jonathan - Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation international at zabalaza dot net
 The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (southern Africa) supports the public sector strikers, not just in their demand for a wage increase of 12%, which has now been reduced to 10%, but also in their struggle to improve the standard of all public sector services.
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Beginning on Sunday 28 August, Wits students have been littering parts of campus in solidarity with the cleaners’ strike. Cleaners throughout South Africa are demanding a living wage of R4 200 per month: this compares with less than R2 000 paid to cleaners at Wits, who are employed by outsourcing companies such as Supercare. The strike has been undermined, at Wits and elsewhere, by the presence of scab labour; Wits management and the outsourcing companies are striving for “business as usual”. This undermines the entire purpose of the strike, which is to compel exploiter-managers to meet workers’ demands by withdrawing their labour, by preventing the job from getting done – by making sure the campus is not clean.
A Melbourne Anarchist Commounist Group Statement in support of South African public sector strike
The Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) is calling for a further action in terms of unity and organisation.
The APF will be hosting a May Day Workers Rally in the community of Residensia (Sebokeng – Vaal Triangle) at Tshepo Themba School at 10h00 tomorrow in support of all the working class struggles in the country.
Don't abandon the unions, or take sides in inter-union rivalries. Build a serious, organised, non-sectarian project of democratic reform and political discussion that spans the unions, including a rank-and-file movement that fosters debate, and opens the treasure-chest of union and left history and theory. Recover the politics of disconnecting from the state as raised by, for example, Occupy and the Rojava Revolution. Replace reliance on the state and parties with struggle, and destructive inter-union rivalry with a serious project of working class counter-power.
There has been a lot of talk about the promise of a National Minimum Wage (NMW) in South Africa. This means wages cannot go below a certain level. But capitalists and politicians continue to eat the food of the workers, the poor and unfortunate. Why? In some cases, the NMW is an improvement – but generally, the NMW is not a “living wage,” meaning a wage on which you can live a decent life. Prices keep going up. This society is based on the maximization of profit, this is its logic, and this means wages are not linked to what the workers and poor need, but to what bosses and politicians need. Wages are a system of exploitation. We live a capitalist society of stress and fear and jealousy, rooted in a system of cheap black labour, and power and profits for the bosses and politicians. We need to fight for something more, take back our unions, and lay the groundwork for an anarchists society, with equality based on workers and community councils.
On 17 November 2017, the Minister of Labour announced the state intends to carry out a new round of attacks on workers and their rights. The attacks come in the form of three Labour Bills currently being considered by parliament: the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill, the National Minimum Wage Bill and the Labour Relations Amendment Bill. If passed, the changes to the labour laws these bills propose will be a major attack on workers’ rights, won through decades of struggle, and will further deepen and entrench inequality and roll back important democratic gains.
In these grim times, both globally and locally, it is important to reaffirm the centrality of workers’ education, and the need for a strong working-class movement. Ordinary people have immense potential to change the world, and steer it in a more progressive direction than that promised by capitalists, populists and the political establishment, writes Lucien van der Walt.
In what will no doubt become known as a historic strike, women workers at Robertson Winery have played a key role, both because they form the majority of the striking workers but also as leaders of the strike. more >>
Beginning on Sunday 28 August, Wits students have been littering parts of campus in solidarity with the cleaners’ strike. Cleaners throughout South Africa are demanding a living wage of R4 200 per month: this compares with less than R2 000 paid to cleaners at Wits, who are employed by outsourcing companies such as Supercare. The strike has been undermined, at Wits and elsewhere, by the presence of scab labour; Wits management and the outsourcing companies are striving for “business as usual”. This undermines the entire purpose of the strike, which is to compel exploiter-managers to meet workers’ demands by withdrawing their labour, by preventing the job from getting done – by making sure the campus is not clean.
A Melbourne Anarchist Commounist Group Statement in support of South African public sector strike
The Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) is calling for a further action in terms of unity and organisation.
The APF will be hosting a May Day Workers Rally in the community of Residensia (Sebokeng – Vaal Triangle) at Tshepo Themba School at 10h00 tomorrow in support of all the working class struggles in the country. |
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Spring zu Komment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Dear comrades of the ZACF
We in the SOLIDARITY FEDERATION, British Section of the International Workers' Association, send solidarity greetings to the striking Public Service workers in South Africa.
We support not just their demand for a wage increase but also their defence of all public sector services. We strongly condemn the government's attempt to intimidate workers into ending the strike by issuing dismissal notices to striking workers.
We wish the workers victory in their just demands.
In solidarity
Richard Cleminson
International Secretary, SF/IWA, 14 June 2007
OAE – Greece supports the strikers in S.Africa
by OAE-Greece - Anarkismo Wednesday, Jun 13 2007, 1:54pm
ngnm55@gmail.com
southern africa / workplace struggles / press release
Statement of Solidarity
The Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) is calling for a further action in terms of unity and organisation.
The Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) is giving its full support to the workers in the public sector of South Africa and is calling all the anarchist organisations, anarchsyndicalist unions and all the concerned people not only support the strike but also to stand in an active solidarity to them wherever they are.
As we understand the strikers not only meet the reactionary tactics by the government who dismissed fellow workes but also meet the effort by a number of sold-out media to present the strike as a violent event which suppossedly disturbs the “normal life” or the “social peace” in South Africa.
The Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) is calling for a further action in terms of unity and organisation by the strikers themselves and also the mass social movement in South Africa, until the final victory of the strike.
Forward to revolutionary mass action!
Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) – International Relations
13/6/2007
FRANCE: NATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF LABOUR (CNT) SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE
The French CNT, informed by its comardes of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (southern Africa), wants to give all its support to the public sector strikers, not just in their demand for a wage increase of 12%, which has now been reduced to 10%, but also in their struggle to improve the standard of all public sector services. We also strongly condemn the south african government's attempt to intimidate workers into ending the strike by issuing dismissal notices to striking workers, and by using apartheid-era police brutality against picketers. We support the workers' demands that any agreement reached must be accompanied by the unconditional reinstatement of any and all workers dismissed during the strike.
An injury to one is an injury to all !
International solidarity
CNT-France
Paris, tuesday 12th of june 2007
The W.S.A. continues to stand in solidarity with the working people of South Africa.
We have stood by you during the fight against aparthied. We have stood with you in your struggle for independent class based unions. We have stood by you during the fight against retrenchments and restructuring. And we will continue to stand by you today in this fight for a living wage and pension.
Workers Solidarity Alliance
National Office
This article in Italian:
A bit more about the strike here:
The International Solidarity Commission (ISC) of the Industrial Workers of the World – a democratic, worker-led international labor union headquartered in the United States – supports the massive public sector strike in South Africa as workers fight for a higher wage and improved services. This fight is part of a larger struggle to overturn a larger system of inequality in which legislators vote for raises for themselves at the expenses of workers who run the schools, hospitals and other services.
The ISC condemns the government’s attempts to intimidate striking workers by issuing dismissal notices, as well as the use of police brutality against picketers. We endorse the workers’ demands that any agreement reached to conclude this strike must also include the reinstatement of all fired workers.
We commend the display of solidarity shown by the approximately 1 million workers who are rallying together for an improved quality of life and the collective good of all workers. The ISC stands in solidarity with these and all fellow workers.
Lauren Anzaldo, John Kalwaic, Mike Pesa
International Solidarity Commission
Industrial Workers of the World
PO Box 23085, Cincinnati, OH 45223-3085, USA solidarity@iww.org