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TENS of thousands are expected to swell the ranks of striking metalworkers in South Africa today, with miners joining a national “stay-away” call issued by the country’s largest trade union confederation.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) called for a “socio-economic national strike” marking today’s Global Day for Decent Work, with South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers throwing its weight behind the action.
Cosatu called on its members in mining, energy, construction and metalworking to support the action, either by joining the rallies or by staying at home.
One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS
