Last week some 1,200 workers took four days of strike action at four of Argos’ key regional distribution sites. This was in opposition to Argos’ decision to end their final salary pension scheme. If management does not back down, more industrial action will certainly be forthcoming. Given the recalcitrant nature of such ruling class managers, […]
In South Africa the Lonmin struggle continues… with autopsy reports of the police-led massacre now conclusively demonstrating that “most of the people were fleeing from the police when they got killed.” If this was not bad enough, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) even initiated proceedings to use ‘common purpose’ Apartheid-era legislation to prosecute 270 of […]
Platinum mining reaps colossal profits for a few, which is derived from the systematic abuse of many others… the others being workers who live in make-shift shacks and daily risk their lives in the employ of a depraved ruling class which craves only precious minerals and broken backs. South African political elites, whether members of […]
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