This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
1973: Neo-apartheid and the sleeping the giant.
Mbuso Nkosi (Sociology Lecturer-University of Pretoria)
Published 1 September 2022Updated 1 September 2022
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
ABSTRACT FOR PROPOSED CONFERENCE 26-27 JANUARY, 2023:
‘CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DURBAN STRIKES’
DURBAN 1973, A NATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH, IN THE CONTEXT OF A GLOBALLY DEVELOPING SOCIALISM? BUT WHAT IF THE REALITY WAS ACTUALLY AN EMERGENT 50-YEAR INTERNATIONAL CAPITALIST ‘COUNTERREVOLTION’ OF 1973-2022?
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
Paper proposal for the
CCAWUSA and Independent Socialists Panel
1973 conference
Title: “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s.
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
Abstract
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985