Afriques en Lutte

Mobilise all out support for the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland

CPS — 2016-10-30T04:55:00Z

The Communist Party of Swaziland's Red October campaign for the year 2016-2017 focuses on all-out mobilisation in support of the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA). The campaign will be launched on 29 October 2016 in Manzini. TUCOSWA is a crucial federation in representing the interests of the organised working class in Swaziland, and in promoting trade unionism within enterprises where worker's rights are suppressed. TUCOSWA has, since its foundation in 2012 been a target of (…)

- Swaziland / syndicalisme

CPS : Spirit of defiance growing in Swaziland – workers and students at the forefront of struggle

CPS — 2016-03-07T04:38:00Z

The Communist Party of Swaziland congratulates the workers and students of our country for their courageous protests of recent days. They reflect the persistent opposition of ordinary Swazis to the Mswati dictatorship and a bolder spirit of defiance within parts of society.
Public sector unions are continuing to put pressure on the regime over its shady intentions concerning public servants' wages. The regime still refuses to release its report on the wage bill, a clear sign that it has (…)

- Swaziland / communiqués partis amis et associations

Swaziland : 4th Annual National Conference Declaration of CPS

CPS — 2015-04-21T03:09:00Z

The 4th Annual National Conference of the Communist Party of Swaziland ended 07 April 2015 shortly before the 4th Anniversary of the inaugural congress of the Party in 2011.
The conference reflected on the growing state of repression in the country and the alarming situation of social ruin among the working class and poor under the Mswati dictatorship. Our country is being steadily degraded under the monarchic autocracy.
The CPS delegates assessed that the regime remains firm in (…)

- Swaziland / communiqués partis amis et associations

Communist Party of Swaziland calls on SA not to electrify part of SA-Swazi border, but to pursue enlightened frontier policy

CPS — 2014-12-22T04:13:00Z

« The Communist Party of Swaziland is concerned at recent reports that the Department of Community Safety and Liaison in Kwa-Zulu Natal is considering erecting electric fencing along the border with Swaziland in the northeast of the province.
The proposal comes in response to escalating cross-border crime, which includes cigarette and other contraband smuggling, illegal immigration, stock theft, and robberies. The use of electrified fencing, which was set at lethal voltage levels, along (…)

- Swaziland / communiqués partis amis et associations

Communist Party of Swaziland calls on SA not to electrify part of SA-Swazi border, but to pursue enlightened frontier policy

CPS — 2014-12-20T04:41:00Z

- Swaziland / Immigration

CPS calls for all-out support for NAPSAWU battle to win justice for health workers

CPS — 2014-12-16T12:15:43Z

The Communist Party of Swaziland expresses its full solidarity with the National Public Servants and Allied Workers Union (NAPSAWU) in its landmark court victory and the battle for its full implementation, commencing this Friday 12 December, to upgrade the pay of hospital orderlies.
The case involves money squirreled away by the Mswati regime for its own use instead of being used as was stipulated to meet the pay requirements of about 1 000 hospital orderlies – some of the lowest paid (…)

- Swaziland / communiqués partis amis et associations, syndicalisme

CPS Winter School to focus on unbanning political parties in Swaziland

CPS — 2014-07-24T10:03:00Z

The Communist Party of Swaziland is proud to announce that it will be holding its annual Winter School, in Mpumalanga (South Africa), over the weekend 25-27 July. The focus of the school this year is on campaign work, in particular on the priority campaign for the unbanning of all political parties and organisations in Swaziland. This issue is one for which there is widespread support, not only in the country but internationally. No country can call itself civilised, hope to develop (…)

- Swaziland / communiqués partis amis et associations

Unban political parties in Swaziland ! The world can add a voice

CPS — 2014-06-28T03:07:00Z

The South African Communist Party (SACP) Alpheus Malivha District will on the 28TH of June 2014 visit the Village of Cde Amos Mbedzi at Makonde village, Thulamela Municipality, Vhembe Region in Limpopo Province, RSA. The event will be at cde Amos Mbezi's Home. This is part of international solidarity work, at this time in support of the struggle for freedom in Swaziland. Cde Amos Mbedzi is one South African from this district (Alpheus Malivha) in this village (Makonde). He is serving 85 (…)

- Swaziland / Action Militante

Communist Party of Swaziland calls for all-out support for strike at Ubombo Sugar (Illovo)

CPS — 2014-06-23T12:22:00Z

The CPS extends its full solidarity with the more than 3 000 workers in the Swaziland Agricultural Plantations and Allied Workers Union (SAPWU) in their strike for better wages and conditions at Ubombo Sugar Ltd, which is part of the Illovo sugar conglomerate. Workers on Swaziland's sugar plantations are among the most heavily exploited sections of the working class. Workers at Ubombo are paid R1 500 with the possibility to increase this to R 2 000 if they work Sundays – making a full (…)

- Swaziland / communiqués partis amis et associations, luttes ouvrières

END MSWATI'S LOOTING OF SWAZILAND

CPS — 2014-06-13T03:02:00Z

The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) campaign ‘Not Another Cent for Mswati' focuses on the need to end the expropriation of the wealth of Swaziland by Mswati III, his 14wives and extensive ‘royal' family.
This expropriation amounts to the siphoning of wealth and resources by Mswati simply to keep him and his family in luxury. It happens wholly at the expense of the people of Swaziland, who suffer some of the worst poverty and disease in the world.
Mswati receives nearly E55 million a (…)

- Swaziland / communiqués partis amis et associations