National and International

The Resolutions that have been submitted for the COSATU 9th Congress are out. Clicking on the link below will take you to a page where you can click again on an icon to download the whole (361 KB) file. COSATU GS Zwelinzima Vavi made an input to the NEDLAC Annual Summit last Saturday, laying out the relationship with this body and its constituent parts and the work done there. Click on the link below. NUMSA is taking solidarity action for workers in the Phillippines who are in dispute with a Japanese company. Click on the link below to read the details. SACCAWU continues in militant strike action in their dispute with the Shoprite group. The employers are using unscrupulous and brutal tactics with the collusion of the local State. Click on the link below. A different view of South African government’s response to HIV/AIDS from that of our Treatment Action Campaign is given by the Business Day article linked below, originating from a Washington USA think-tank. Click on the link to read it. There is sure to be a response from the TAC. Today is the South African launch of the campaign to free the Cuban Five. Click on the link to go to the page where the image of the Five as a campaign banner is located. You can download the image with a right-click on the image, then select “Save Picture As…”. Further simple instructions can be found on that page. Please insert the “Free the Cuban Five” banner image (linked below) in your e-mails, web sites and documents during the campaign. It is only 27KB in size. It can even be inserted as part of a “signature” in your e-mail software, so that it automatically appears below every e-mail that you send. We will attempt to insert the banner above this e-mail. If it is successful, this will be the first time the Communist University has used an image in the covering e-mail of the daily distribution. You can see another example of the use of the banner at the CU web site’s home page. Tomorrow the CU plans to carry more text on the Cuban Five, plus material on Swaziland. Click on these links: COSATU 9th Congress, full text of submitted Resolutions (361KB Word Document Download) COSATU GS Z Vavi, input to the NEDLAC Annual Summit 060911 (1631 words) NUMSA protests Toyota Phillippines dispute to Japan Embassy (338 words) SACCAWU Statement on Shoprite Checkers Strike 060911 (825 words) Critics ignore progress on AIDS, Jeremiah Norris, Business Day (789 words) Free the Cuban 5 Banner (27KB downloadable GIF file)