COSATU, the South African national trade union centre, has hailed the government’s decision to boycott an upcoming OECD tourism conference in Israel. The conference is set to focus on “Industry and Policy Approaches to Foster Green Growth in Tourism”. In…
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UK: Israel boycott again on agenda of academics union
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“A British academic trade union responsible for continual calls to ostracize Israeli academia is again set to consider a boycott call and alignment with the ‘boycott, divestment, sanctions’ campaign at its annual conference in Manchester next month. The University College…
UK academics union to debate hosting of anti-Israel activist
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The following is the text a resolution submitted to the upcoming conference of Britain’s union for academics, the UCU. No comment is required from us. SFC17 UCU’s invitation to Bongani Masuku of South Africa, University of Oxford Congress notes that:…
COSATU official fails to apologise for hate speech remarks – may face Equality Court
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COSATU’s International Relations spokesperson Bongani Masuku could soon be hauled before South Africa’s Equality Court after failing to apologise for comments made at a Palestine solidarity rally in March last year that the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) found…
“COSATU supports the International week against apartheid Israel”
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That’s the headline of a press statement on the website of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) today. The statement opens with these sentences: “In Palestine there lives a peace-loving people like all of us, who look forward…
“Israel Apartheid Week”: South African unions take the lead
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The idea that Israel is an apartheid society — which is a completely false one — is made to seem legitimate by the involvement of those who fought against a genuinely apartheid regime. That’s why the South African unions are…
Union chooses to hold anti-Israel rally on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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January 27, 1945 was the day that Soviet troops liberated the largest and most infamous of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz — and it is for this reason that this day was chosen by the international community to serve…
BDS campaigners turn their attention to the unions
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The Gaza Freedom March is over and participants have issued a declaration in Cairo which will be of interest to trade unionists for two reasons. First, it explicitly focusses on trade unions and second, it is signed by a number…
COSATU delegation to join the Gaza Freedom March!
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The South African trade union national centre, COSATU, has just released this media statement. This new years eve, 31 December 2009, thousands of people and activists from all over the world will gather in Gaza for a historic march against…
COSATU activists to bring pro-boycott message to the UK
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Bongani Masuku (International Secretary) and George Mahlangu (Campaigns Coordinator) from the South African national trade union centre, COSATU, are due to speak in Manchester on 7 December at an event titled “The case for sanctions and boycott”. The event will…