Miners’ strikes continue Strike unrest continues in South Africa’s platinum, gold, coal, diamond and iron ore mining sectors. Company owners are threatening massive layoffs if work stoppages — protected and unprotected — proceed. Labor unrest has hit Anglo-American Platinum (Amplats) for the past several months. Amplats offered to reinstate 12,000 workers, but the strike is [...]
Displaying all posts for Abayomi Azikiwe
South Africa labor union declares: ‘Enough is enough! We want change!’
By
Abayomi Azikiwe November 7, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Sudanese in Khartoum protest Israeli bombing raid
By
Abayomi Azikiwe November 2, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Sudanese citizens staged protests in the capital Khartoum following the Oct. 24 Israeli Air Force bombing of the Yarmouk weapons factory. Last May, Israel launched a missile attack on an automobile plant in Port Sudan. Similar attacks occurred in April 2011, killing two people, and in January 2009 in the eastern region of the oil-rich [...]
U.S. backs Bani Walid’s destruction
By
Abayomi Azikiwe October 31, 2012 » Add more comments.
Despite reports that chemical weapons were used against the civilian population of Bani Walid in Libya, the U.S. State Department is supporting its surrogates’ takeover of the western hilltop city. Militias from Misrata, known for their brutality and racism, have held Bani Walid, a stronghold of loyalists allied with Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s government, under siege [...]
Puppets use chemical weapons against Bani Walid, Libya
By
Abayomi Azikiwe October 26, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Supporters of Bani Walid’s people demonstrated outside the General National Congress parliament in Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 21 calling for a halt to the town’s siege. Bani Walid’s 80,000 people were a bastion of support for the former Jamahiriya government led by the martyred Col. Moammar Gadhafi. Protesters attempted to enter the building but were [...]
Imperialists prepare for war in Mali
By
Abayomi Azikiwe October 24, 2012 » Add more comments.
Western imperialist states, with the support of the United Nations Security Council, are preparing for a full-scale military intervention in the West African state of Mali. Since March, the country has been in a severe political crisis after a military coup and its effective partitioning into north and south. The French government of Francois Hollande [...]
Libya becomes focus of U.S. election
By
Abayomi Azikiwe October 22, 2012 » Add the first comment.
One year since the brutal assassination of former Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the Republican Party is using Libya’s political crisis in an attempt to defeat President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election. Both U.S. ruling-class parties backed the 2011 war against this oil-producing nation that had maintained the highest standard of living in [...]
Labor actions spread as South African truckers end strike
By
Abayomi Azikiwe October 20, 2012 » Add the first comment.
The 43,000-strong truckers’ strike ended on Oct. 11. An agreement with the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union, a Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) affiliate, resulted in 27 percent pay increases over three years. This was announced by the Road Freight Employers’ Association, which had already reached an agreement with three smaller [...]
Kenyans allowed to pursue case in English courts for torture
By
Abayomi Azikiwe October 14, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Three survivors of colonial detention centers in Kenya during the 1950s have been granted the legal right to pursue their case for damages against the British government. Wambugu Wa Nyingi, 84; Paulo Muoka Nzili, 85; and Jane Muthoni Mara, 75 have made claims resulting from their arrest, confinement and torture when the imperialists attempted to [...]
12,000 South African miners fired as strikes spread to public sector
By
Abayomi Azikiwe October 11, 2012 » Add the second comment.
For two months, wildcat and protected strikes have taken place in South Africa. There have been industrial actions in the platinum, gold, iron ore and transportation sectors of the economy, Africa’s largest industrial sectors. On Oct. 5, in response to the escalating labor unrest, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world’s largest platinum producer, fired 12,000 [...]
South African miners’ strikes continue, spread to transport workers
By
Abayomi Azikiwe October 4, 2012 » Add the second comment.
Strike actions continue by workers in the platinum and gold mines in South Africa and have spread to the transportation industry. As the struggle goes on, the government investigation began into the unrest surrounding the wildcat strike, led by rock-drill operators, at Lonmin Platinum PLC. On Oct. 1, the proceedings in Rustenberg started with the [...]
