Developments in South Africa

In February there was rapid succession of major political developments in South Africa. Under the intense pressure from the public and his party, President Jacob Zuma stepped down and was replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa. Soon after his appointment, the new president announced that the African National Congress government would move to confiscate European land without compensation. This has always been a popular demand of native South Africans, but the government had previously hesitated to carry it out because of the power that rich whites still hold. The country also officially cut off diplomatic ties with Israel, recognizing the similarity between the brutal apartheid system that exists in occupied Palestine today and the apartheid regime that South Africans lived under until the nineties.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement

We are workers, employed and unemployed, youth, students, and seniors. We are multi-racial and multi-national and organize for the unity of the working class. We are funded by and for workers, for the liberation of all workers and oppressed people.

We organize for jobs and higher wages, against racism, women’s, and LGBTQ oppression, and for solidarity with immigrants. We organize for community schools, lower rents, and food on our tables. We organize for workers’ power so that everything will one day be removed from the capitalists’ private ownership.

We oppose the Pentagon, which is looting our tax dollars and handing them over to war-profiteering private companies, while social programs are gutted. We oppose war for empire which is pursued only to lower our wages and plunder the world’s resources while destroying the environment. We reject the monopoly media who feed us lie after lie.

The labor of workers produces enormous wealth here in Louisiana, the U.S. and the world– so much wealth that everyone could have housing, meaningful jobs, education, healthcare, and genuine equality. But this wealth is stolen and privately owned by the capitalist class for their greed and profit. We believe that we, the workers of the world, can unite in revolution to overcome capitalism and build a better world.

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