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DESCRIPTION:FROM MARIKANA, SOUTH AFRICA TO OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: \nTHE STRUGGLE FOR 
 WORKERS POWER\n\n\nThe fall of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 was a 
 watershed victory. It culminated decades of struggle by the Black and 
 Colored South African masses, a struggle supported by millions in the U.S. 
 and around the world. The victory brought to power the Tripartite 
 government of the African National Congress (ANC), the South African 
 Communist Party (SACP), and the Congress of South African Trade Unions 
 (COSATU).\n\nNow, two decades later, the ANC-led Tripartite government 
 represents big business’s interests -- especially the interests of U.S. 
 and European-based banks and corporations. This has led the government to 
 brutally attack workers who fight back against austerity. Indeed, in 2012, 
 at the Marikana mine, this government massacred 34 striking miners at the 
 behest of the mine owners.\n\nBlack poverty has worsened. Inequality has 
 worsened. Trade union officials collaborate with employers against workers, 
 youth, and unemployed. Does this sound familiar? Isn’t the situation 
 similar in the US, with union of- ficials not fighting employer and 
 government attacks on workers, like the machinists at Boeing?\n\nBut in 
 South Africa, there’s an exciting new development: for the first time 
 since the fall of Apartheid, there’s a serious challenge to the 
 Tripartite government’s rule, and it comes from the largest and most 
 militant union in Africa. The National Union of Metalworkers of South 
 Africa (NUMSA) has broken with the COSATU leadership and called for South 
 Africans not to support the ANC in this year’s elections. It is currently 
 building a workers’ party and united front to lead the struggle against 
 the capitalist onslaught of deregulation, privatization, and strike 
 breaking.\n\nWe are privileged to present Brother Mphumzi Maqungo, the 
 national treasurer of NUMSA and past chair of NUMSA’s autoworker shop 
 steward network, to discuss these developments.\n\n\nTHURSDAY, MAY 1, 7:00 
 PM\nILWU Hall, Henry Schmidt Room\n400 N. Point St./Mason, San 
 Francisco\n\n\nFRIDAY, MAY 2, 12 NOON\nUC Berkeley, McCone Hall (Room 
 575)\n\n\nSATURDAY, MAY 3, 2:00 PM\nBlack Repertory Theater\n3201 Adeline, 
 Berkeley \n(one block south of Ashby BART)\n\n\nFor updates or to get 
 involved in building for these events, contact the May Day Committee in 
 Solidarity with South African Workers at: twsc@transportworkers.org. Reach 
 us directly at (510)325-8664 or (415)282-1908\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/13/18754043.php
SUMMARY:From Marikana, South Africa to Oakland, California: The Struggle for Workers Power
LOCATION:UC Berkeley, McCone Hall (Room 575)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/13/18754043.php
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