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… Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers' Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935 …

… Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers' Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936 …

… Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers' Party of South Africa, 13 January 1936 …

… The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth …

… ocument 70 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape …

… 'Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers' organisations in South Africa", Freedom, 5,4, …

… Document 69 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape …

… Document 66 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape …

… of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa", Workers' Voice, 1, 1, July 1944 …

… Transkeian Migrant Workers and Youth Labour on the Natal Sugar Estates 1918-1948 …

… Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the International …

… of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers' Party of South Africa and the Communist League of …

… (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers' Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935 …

… merged with an aim create a more powerful independent union federation outside of the tripartite alliance. FEDUSA … more white members and pro-capitalist white collar workers than other federations. Currently, FEDUSA boasts over … offered a 4.8 percent wage hike to public sector workers, but FEDUSA advised affiliated trade unions …

… Unions (NACTU) is South Africa's second largest trade union federation with more than 400 000 members. Its largest … union activities, such as organising and representing workers, NACTU has been involved in anti-privatisation … (FEDUSA), NACTU and the Confederation of South African Workers’ Unions (CONSAWU)), into one federation called the …

… PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS … overseers and charge hands, and also with some of the workers who were stooges of the sirdars, doing their dirty … This was the period of the great depression. The Black workers were the first to lose their jobs. My family was not …

… 1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial … Unions (Transvaal) (CNETU). Formation of the African Mine Workers Union. Food and Canning workers Union is formed. 1946 …

… and non-racial industrial unions merged to form one trade union called South African Trades and Labour Council (SATLC), … as the Trade and Labour Council. In 1944 SATLC adopted the Workers Charter. This Charter was viewed as a vehicle to … Durban to form the exclusive White, Coloured, and Indian workers’ Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) . Black …

… Trade Unions ) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking for a wage … state. 18 August: An estimated 1,2 million public sector workers went on strike demanding a wage increase of 8,6 …

… of black miners in 1914. On 12 August 1946 African mine workers of the Witwatersrand went on strike in support of a … the most savage police terror, in which officially 1,248 workers were wounded and a very large number - officially … organisations which began during the strike, when trade union and political offices and homes of officials were …

… Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South West Africa). However, there were a number of workers’ strikes during this period. Poor wages, bad working … coasts in Africa, was an important centre for early trade union activity, although the workers knew very little about …

… During the 1930s there were attempts by African workers to organise and reconstruct all fragmented African … the failure of the African-based Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU). However, these unions remained lethargic until …

… at the beginning of 1973 which marked a renewal of trade union activity after a decade-long lull. Background of the … first real flowering of trade union activity among Black workers in the country. Although it could claim a membership … was moribund by 1930. Further attempts at unionising Black workers took place throughout the period after 1930, …

… and with this growth came an increase in the demand for workers. (Berger, 1992 47) And, although the growth was slow, … the name of Mary Fitzgerald set the tone for women’s trade union activism in the years that would follow. Known as the … were on the behalf of men (there were not enough female workers in industry to effectively unionise yet), her …

… involved in the organising of trade unions for Indian workers. The ISL also organized night classes in Marxist … theory. (Mantzaris: 1983: 116). In March 1917, the Indian Workers Industrial Union was established with Bernard Sigamoney as secretary and …

… Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had … The Labour Party, Socialists ferment and White Workers The Labour Party was a result of socialist ferment in … Socialist Party, Socialist Labour Party and the Industrial Workers of the World were already competing for workers’ …

… in Durban prompts management to issue pamphlets warning workers that communist agitators were at work among them. 9 January - All 2000 workers at Coronation Brick and Tile launch a spontaneous … Bay industrial areas. April, The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) is established and launched in Pietermaritzburg …

… of Statistics by Grace Davie   The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of … Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the … to 1994 by Dan Feather  Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton  …

… the strikes. Only Harriet’s furniture and textile union, as well as the tin workers union to a lesser degree, offered any assistance to workers during the 1973 strikes in Durban. After the strikes, …

… express dissatisfaction through peaceful demonstrations. Workers are also allowed by legislation to embark on strikes … earning. On 23 January 2014, almost 70 000 platinum mine workers went on strike. The majority of workers were from …  These mine workers belong to a newly formed trade union, Association of Mines and Construction Union (AMCU) …