How we beat asbestos

Ruff talks about the condition of asbestos industry in South Africa. The Socialist Revolutionary Workers' Party of South Africa, which announced itself in December, will formally launch its election bid this March. Created by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the country's biggest labor union with 400,000 members, the party aims to unite the working class to fight capitalism and create a socialist South Africa free of mass poverty, unemployment and corruption. The heroic strike back in 1949 by Quebec asbestos miners against appalling exploitation by the US and English-Canadian mine owners created an indelible legacy of respect and pride in Quebec, which increased the sense of solidarity with the workers now facing the shutdown of the industry.