Labor and Unions

Simunye Workers Forum (SWF) and Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO)Joint Press Statement Press Statement: SWF activists and a CWAO board member shot with live ammunition in Germiston yesterday. [...]

The government hasn’t raised wages for public workers in a while. They should receive a decent pay increase for their significant job. Public workers keep society running. They run home [...]

On September 26–29, 2022, COSATU convened its 14th National Congress. This congress happened during a period in which the working class was facing multiple attacks from the ANC Government and the [...]

Rival trade union federations Cosatu and Saftu united to combat the cost of living crisis. A shutdown led by trade unions in South Africa was major success on Wednesday. It showed that after [...]

By Leonard Gentle “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto“, “I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.” Terence (ex-African Slave turned Roman playwright [...]

Since the start of the Covid 19 in South Africa in March 2020, politicians and capitalists peddled the messages of “we’re all in this together”. At the same time, they praised workers [...]

Since coming into power in a 2017 military coup and a disputed 2018 election, Mnangagwa has sustained the authoritarian state and violent repression overseen for thirty seven years by his [...]

On Saturday 25th July Keep Left together with Spar Angelo labour desk, Coronavirus campaign had a demonstration at Nigel Super-Spar. The demonstration was held on the backdrop of encouraging the [...]

A call to action to protect our people Keep Left is revolutionary socialist group. We are pleading with our trade union federations and respective affiliates to step up and meet the acute [...]

One thing that has been conclusively proved by the Covid pandemic is just who the ‘essential’ workers are. This May Day, John Molyneux asks if workers could ever go one futher – could they run [...]