Inqaba ya basebenzi

1981 January Number 1
1981 April Number 2
1981 July Number 3
1981 October Number 4
1982 January Number 5
1982 May Number 6
1982 August Number 7
1982 November Number 8
1983 February-April Number 9
1983 May-July Number 10
1983 August-October Number 11
1983-1984 November-February Number 12
1984 March-May Number 13
1984 June-August Number 14
1984 September-December Number 15
1985 January-June Number 16/17
1986 February Number 18/19
1986 September Number 20/21
1986 December Number 22
1987 April Number 23
1987 October Number 24/25
1988 April Number 26
1988 November Number 27
1990 January Number 28
Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for national liberation, democracy and socialism. Issues discussed include wage negotiations, improved working conditions, campaigns for a national minimum wage and exploitation of workers. Trade union action in the struggle for power by united workers is documented at length. Strikes by mineworkers, factory workers and transport workers are discussed in the context of increasing resistance to the repressive National Government apartheid policies. Capitalism, socialism, imperialism and reformism are issues debated at length, placed in the local South African context and in the wider international arena. Supplements to several of the issues contain theoretical and sometimes historical discourses on socialism, revolution, Marxism and Stalinism.