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We are facing a global environmental crisis and a global economic crisis. We need solutions to both – now.About the One Million Climate Jobs CampaignThe Million Climate Jobs Campaign is an alliance of labour, social movements and other civil society organisations in...
Address by Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, District Six Museum, Cape Town, November 6 2011 As with all other aspects of South African life - political, social, economic -...
COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi’s, input to a meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Cannes, France, I am a trade unionist from South Africa a country with the highest rate of unemployment when compared to other middle-income countries. South Africa...
COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi’s, input to a meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Cannes, France, I am a trade unionist from South Africa a country with the highest rate of unemployment when compared to other middle-income countries. South Africa...
‘I just feel dead now because I cannot contribute anything towards my wellbeing and that of my family.’ Discouraged, marginalised and disheartened, the unemployed in South Africa seem to have lost the very hope necessary to look for the next work opportunity. Their...
‘There is no third force, political party or communist academic behind our struggle. It is oppression at the hands of the African National Congress that has driven us into the rebellion of the poor. We are in rebellion because we are being forced to live without...
In 2004, the Mexican Federal Competition Commission took the peculiar step of allowing collusion in the Mexican retail market. It did so when it approved the establishment of Sinergia, a buying cooperative comprised of Mexico’s second, third and fourth largest...
On Monday, nostalgia, tinged with concern, will provide a worker and union undercurrent when the post office, with justifiable pride, celebrates the centenary of South Africa’s first delivery of mail by air. Similar feelings afflict postal workers the world over as...
Across oceans and covering continents people around the world are struggling. There are protest marches, demonstrations, occupations. It’s now global, a globalization of struggle for democracy, for a decent life. It is One Earth One Humanity One Loved, as a placard in...