In South Africa, workers striking against Zionist bosses show strength of boycott campaigns

These particular strikes have many unique characteristics, such as: it is a strike by a denationalized company, acquired by a company that bottles Coca-Cola in the Israeli-occupied territories; it is against the reduction of rights that put workers in slave-like conditions; the union leaders have moved from the wage struggle to the political struggle for the nationalization of the company under workers’ control; the Ramaphosa government – an ANC-COSATO-Communist Party coalition – is against the nationalization; a huge campaign of solidarity is underway. Continue reading In South Africa, workers striking against Zionist bosses show strength of boycott campaigns

German government and Volkswagen: populism and repression in the South African pandemic

Por Cesar Neto   The German government decided, through the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), together with South African Volkswagen, to support the battle against Coronavirus in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The initiative was presented to the press in June.  An important local newspaper reported this with the following headline “Volkswagen converted an old PE factory into a massive Covid-19 hospital … Continue reading German government and Volkswagen: populism and repression in the South African pandemic