Day: February 16, 2013

South African workers support DSM/CWI Hundreds-strong meeting hears speeches from visiting CWI members By Sean Figg, Johannesburg Hundreds of striking municipal workers meeting in a Pretoria park loudly cheered, sang and toyi-toyied after hearing speeches from visiting CWI members Peter Taaffe and Alec Thraves. The strikers waved CWI flags and constantly interrupted the speakers with repeated applause after offers of

South Africa: Democratic Socialist Movement national conference Hardening solid gold Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) http://www.socialistsouthafrica.co.za About 60 delegates and visitors from across South Africa’s platinum and gold mines, townships and villages, gathered on 9-11 February in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, for the Democratic Socialist Movement’s national conference. At the end of a weekend of discussing the lessons