Journal8

KHANYA: a journal for activists
WHAT'S IN THE CURRENT ISSUE
CONTENTS
	In This Edition: Trade Unions At The Crossroads
	he 1973 Strikes And The Birth Of A New Movement In Natal by *Nicole Ulrich*
	Should The Trade Unions Boycott Present State Institutions? by *John Appolis*
	Trade Unions And The Making Of The Mass Movement by *Lennie Gentle*
	From Socialist Politics To Business Unionism: The End of a Cycle of Struggle? by *Mondli Hlatshwayo*
	Worker Education: Embracing Globalisation Or Supporting Workers’ Struggle? by *Linda Cooper*
	White Activists In Black Unions, 1973 - 1994 by *Sakhela Buhlungu*
	The Turn To The Right Cosatu’s Economic Policy In The Post-Apartheid Period by *Oupa Lehulere*

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue No.7

Issue No.6

Issue No.5

Issue No.4

Issue No.3

	Social Dialogue, Neoliberalism And The Trade Unions In South Africa by *Maria van Driel*
	Towards Building Linkages Between Trade Unions And The Emerging Social Movements by *Mthetho Xali*
	A Tale Of Two Movements Social Movements And Trade Unions by *Mondli Hlatshwayo*
	Proletarians Or Labour Aristocrats? The Changing Social Composition Of Cosatu Members *by Sakhela Buhlungu*
	Trade Unions And Migration In Southern Africa by *Thabang Matete Mohale*
	Introducing The Khanya Working-Class History Programme
	Winter School 2005
	Barometer Of Major Workers’ Strikes Since The 1973 Durban Strikes
THE JOURNAL
In this Edition The 1973 strikes in Durban and the subsequent wave of worker uprisings are regarded as important landmarks in the making of the South African labour movement. The strike wave and the consequent revival of the labour movement have a direct bearing on the present labour movement.... Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
The 1973 Strikes and the Birth of a New Movement In 1973 61,000 African and Indian workers in Natal downed their tools in the space of a few months. These strikes, which took place in various industries, were not coordinated by any organisation and represented a spontaneous upsurge by workers angered by a sharp increase in the cost of living … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Should The Trade Unions Boycott Present State Institutions? In March this year the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation arranged a discussion on the left’s attitude to the role and participation in bourgeois institutions. This is a question that should also be of concern to the trade union movement. Presently, the trade union movement participates in a plethora of bourgeois institutions… … … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Trade Unions And The Making Of The Mass Movement South Africa’s tenth year of democracy was celebrated in the context of greater neoliberal triumph as well as South Africa’s imperial aspiration in Africa. An important feature of this triumphalism is a huge silence on the role that mass struggle played in winning democracy… Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
From Socialist Politics To Business Unionism In 1973 more than 60 thousand workers in Durban went on strike and opened up a wave of struggles that led to the fall of apartheid in 1994. By 1994 the militancy that had driven these struggles had declined considerably, and the politics of socialism that had guided the working class movement were no longer being followed. … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Worker Education: Embracing Globalisation Or Supporting Workers’ Struggle? Worker education in South Africa is being pulled in two opposite d irections. The one direction has emerged: “….out of the history of the labour movement and links education closely to political practice; it sees learning as emerging out of workers’ collective experiences of oppression… Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
White Activists In Black Unions, 1973 - 1994 An assessment of the last three decades of unionism in South Africa and a celebration of COSATU’s 20th anniversary cannot be complete without mention of the role and place of white activists in the predominantly black movement that emerged in the wake of the 1973 Durban strikes. ........... Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
The Turn To The Right Cosatu’s Economic Policy In The Post-Apartheid Period Over the last few weeks the South African textile and the mining industries have each announced the loss of thousands of jobs. Over the last ten years there have been periodic announcements of this kind, and it is now accepted that post-apartheid South Africa has seen a “job-loss bloodbath”… … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Social Dialogue, Neoliberalism And The Trade Unions In South Africa In South Africa’s first ten years of democracy, the praise-singers have sung of the ”negotiations miracle” and the achievement of a society based on social dialogue. Most of the trade unions in South Africa support social dialogue as the means to achieve social change for working people. … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Towards Building Linkages Between Trade Unions And The Emerging Social Movements One of the most important developments in the “new” South Africa is the emergence of community movements like the Western Cape Anti-Evictions Campaign (AEC) that are engaged in struggles against the neoliberal Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) policy .... Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
A Tale Of Two Movements Social Movements And Trade Unions This article is based on two interviews that were conducted by the labour history project of Khanya College with Comrade Armstrong Mxolisi Mafilika on 8 and 22 March 2003 at Sebokeng, KwaMasiza Flats. The purpose of the interviews was to allow Cde Mafi lika to tell his story of working class organising over the past 30 years … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
12 Proletarians Or Labour Aristocrats? The Changing Social Composition Of Cosatu Members Research has shown that the structure of the black workforce has been changing consistently over the last three decades. A feature of this change has been the decline of the unskilled stratum and the growth of the semi-skilled and skilled strata… … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Trade Unions And Migration In Southern Africa The history of immigration and trade unionism in the Southern African region varies considerably because the region was for a long time divided into anti-apartheid countries and those that were in support of or were forced to follow the apartheid system. While the apartheid government in South Africa was… … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Introducing The Khanya Working-Class History Programme In 2001, Khanya College decided to set up a working-class history programme. The programme attempts to systematically capture the history of the South African working class. This is done in order to contribute towards: The promotion of knowledge and understanding of the history of the working class… … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Winter School 2005 The Khanya College Annual Winter School was launched in July 1999. The Winter School represents an important step in Khanya College’s response to the changing political and economic environment within which social movements have to work. In many different ways Khanya College programmes seek to assist communities in the difficult task of developing their responses to globalisation and its various manifestations.… … Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents
Barometer Of Major Workers’ Strikes Since The 1973 Durban Strikes Click here to read this article in PDF. back to contents

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