This is a time to embrace working-class unity and challenge the status quo of capitalist oppression.
His dissident views made him a renegade communist, but a new biography confirms Harold Wolpe as an influential radical voice.
Numsa wants full disclosure from Eskom on the so-called "war room", and it believes that the electricity crisis is due to multi-million contracts.
Numsa says its members still have to vote on Eskom’s offer that they return to work, but the NUM says they have already accepted the deal.
Workers are considering Eskom’s offer to reinstate them even though working conditions at the Medupi power plant have not yet been addressed.
Zwelinzima Vavi is ready to fight for or against Cosatu, and he is leaving the decision of the direction of the battle in the hands of workers.
The State Security Agency has been spying on the leader of the already paranoid Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, Joseph Mathunjwa.
Numsa may find a home at the other end of the political spectrum.
Cosatu’s Bheki Ntshalintshali says the report also shows that the auditors had not been able to meet Zwelinzima Vavi, despite attempts to do so.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi may feel the wrath of the union federation for not attending its central executive committee meeting.
Both Greece and Spain have a left that doesn’t look back, but that is engaged in the moment and looking to the future – something we sorely need.
The ANC believes it is well on its way to fulfilling promises made in the Freedom Charter, but Numsa tells a different story.
An important lessons that we have learnt in the United Front is that although there may be no road map, it is vital to know the destination.
The world of 2015 is a much-changed place, but the embryonic new left of the United Front is looking to the 1970s and earlier for its inspiration.
There is hope that this time, with a rise in grass-roots social activism, capitalism will not win.
Most commentators have got the idea of the United Front wrong, and many important points from the national congress in December were overlooked.
Numsa’s umbrella entity, the United Front, not so united as delegates disagree on internal structure and what role the party should play in elections.
Numsa’s general secretary Irvin Jim reiterates that Numsa won’t convert to a "political party", and will remain inspired by Marxism-Leninism.
Zwelinzima Vavi says union leaders must stop acting like bosses who can make decisions without touching base with their union members.
Irvin Jim says the "rogue" report accuses them of treason, which cannot be taken lightly, and they want the State Security Agency to investigate it.
The trade union is concerned that the paper’s circulation is part of a trend to destabilise its plans to form a United Front opposed to the ANC.
There are concerns that the impact of unemployment, load-shedding and industrial action will take its toll on economic growth in the new year.
Unions are going out of business, presenting the ANC with a political and economic dilemma.
A special national congress will be held by trade union Cosatu next year, and sources say Zwelinzima Vavi will not be removed.
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If the tripartite parties’ interests have diverged, then the parties should diverge. Rather give the voters a democratic contestation of issues.
Unions had stopped growing at the same pace as the workforce long before Numsa’s exit from trade union federation Cosatu.
The biggest losers in the Cosatu-Numsa battle seem to be the ANC, SACP and Cosatu – and the real price is set to come in the 2016 municipal elections.
Not only has Cosatu expelled the metalworkers’ union from the federation, but factory workers in Nigel are braced for big job cuts.
Whether the metalworkers’ union forms a political party or not, its expulsion from Cosatu will hit the ruling party in the 2016 municipal elections.
Before its expulsion, Numsa’s 350 000 members paid an affiliation fee of R2.92, amounting to over a million rand that Cosatu will lose monthly.
Three and a half days after a vote to expel Numsa from Cosatu, a formal letter it received was not signed by Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.