This essay, by Sian Byrne, argues that “workerism” was a distinctive, mass-based and coherent multiracial current in the black trade unions in South Africa and that it played an important role in the larger anti-apartheid movement, and stressed class-struggle, non-racialism, anti-capitalism, worker self-activity and union democracy.
FOSATU
For the workerists, whose position was not always explicitly stated as that of the Federation, the concept of worker control went beyond a concern for democratic practices in the trade union. The call for workers control was simultaneously a call for the democratisation of the production process itself.
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