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SAFTU JOINS THE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO HOLD GOVERNMENT AND ESKOM ACCOUNTABLE
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) joins the legal challenge to hold government and Eskom management accountable. Our affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA), was already part of this process. SAFTU has always and continues to be an advocate against mismanagement of Eskom which has resulted in loadshedding, that has now moved from being intermittent to regular and continuous. It is amongst others, a reason we called for the resignation of the outgoing Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, as soon as he began breaking records…
Letter in Support of Alan Dettlaff
rory – January 24, 2023 As members of the Social Work Action Network-International to express our concern aboutthe recent removal of Professor Alan Dettlaff from his post as Dean of the Graduate Collegeof Social Work, at the University of Huston.SWAN-I is a network of social workers and social work organisations from across the globecommitted to social work for social justice. Our international network draws togethernationally based groups of social work researchers, educators and practitioners campaigningfor a more just world.Professor Dettlaff is a leading scholar and political activist whose work on…
Lenin on the beginning of the 1905 Revolution in Russia
By Raju Prabath Lankaloka This article, written by Lenin on the beginning of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, was published on 31 January, 1905. Events of the greatest historical importance are developing in Russia. The proletariat has risen against tsarism. The proletariat was driven to revolt by the government. There can hardly be any doubt now that the government deliberately allowed the strike movement to develop and a wide demonstration to be started more or less without hindrance in order to bring matters to a point where military force could…
Republic of the Constitution and Modi’s India!
D RAJA, General Secretary CPI When Indian republic inaugurated itself on the 26th January 1950, it was a major historic transformation in our nation’s journey towards emancipation of its masses. After getting itself free from colonial clutches, India embarked on a journey of building a society that our freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for. That society was to build on the premise of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice as enshrined in the Preamble of our Constitution. The enactment of the Constitution of India was a great achievement as it established…
Indian revolutionary nationalist turned Marxist, M.N. Roy
Indian revolutionary nationalist turned Marxist, M.N. Roy died Jan. 25, 1954. A founder of the Mexican and Indian Communist Parties and a leader of the Comintern until his expulsion in 1929, Roy broke with Marxism but remained politically active until his death.
The contradictions of the Chinese government’s shift from a COVID zero strategy to openness over the pastthree years and its impact on the grassroots people…
Part:01 Editor: Ji Hengge is a young revolutionary communist on the Chinesemainland who uses a pseudonym for security reasons. We interviewed him inmid-January and asked him to talk about the contradictions of the Chinesegovernment’s shift from a COVID zero strategy to openness over the pastthree years and its impact on the grassroots peoples, as well as the prospectsfor the working class struggle. 1.What is your assessment of the CCP’s changing zero COVID responsethroughout 2020, 2021 and their present abandonment of the strategy? How doestheir response fit into Xi and the…
“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror…”
“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” Happy birthday to the author of these lines, Antonio Gramsci! Born in Sardinia in 1891, Gramsci left his island home at a young age to study in Turin, then the stronghold of Italian industrial capitalism. In 1919 and 1920 he was a leading figure in the Turin workers’ council movement. In 1921, he co-founded…
Lenin – the greatest revolutionary of his time!
By Raju Prabath Lankaloka On 21st January 1924, Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov, the leader of the Russian Soviet state and Communist International died after a prolonged illness. He was fifty-three years of age. His life covers years of profound upheaval, crisis and transformation – the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century – crowned by the First World War and the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was without doubt the greatest revolutionary of his time, a giant of a man, whose actions changed the…
Locals oppose anti-encroachment drive in Balasore
