Category Archives: Unemployed People’s Movement

Mokoape, Vavi, Naidoo & Kasrils to Speak at the Assembly of the Unemployed

03 December 2013

Unemployed People’s Movement Press Statement

 

Mokoape, Vavi, Naidoo & Kasrils to Speak at the Assembly of the Unemployed

 

From the 7th to the 9th of December our movement, other organisations of the unemployed and the poor, and our allies in unions, civil society and other progressive formations will converge on Grahamstown for the first Assembly of the Unemployed.

South Africa's economic crisis, intensified by Zuma’s toxic mixture of neoliberalism, corruption and repression and the global crisis since 2008, has rendered millions of our people as surplus to the needs to the economy, in a manner which traps us in poverty and hopelessness. While the public purse is plundered to build Zuma a palace millions are without work, without houses, without access to decent education and without hope.

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National Assembly of the Unemployed

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Unemployed People’s Movement Press Statement

National Assembly of the Unemployed

It is time to confront the crisis of mass unemployment. Our dignity is not negotiable.

The Unemployed People’s Movement will be hosting a National Assembly of the Unemployed in Grahamstown from 7-9 December 2013. Around 400 delegates from organisations and movements in struggle around the country will attend the event.

Millions of young people, mostly young black people, have no work. They feel that they cannot move forward with their lives. There is a sense of rising desperation. The unemployed are being pushed to the margins of our society economically, politically and even spatially. They time has come to say that enough is enough. The time has come to link the crisis of mass structural unemployment to trade union and community struggles and to build a united movement that can achieve real change from below.

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