Workers Organisation for Socialist Action

Workers Organisation for Socialist Action
Abbreviation	WOSA
Chairman	Neville Alexander
Founded	April 14, 1990(1990-04-14)
Ideology	Trotskyism Socialism
Slogan	"Jobs, peace and socialism. No compromise!"
Politics of South Africa Political parties Elections

TheWorkers Organisation for Socialist Action(WOSA) was aTrotskyistorganisation inSouth Africa.Launched in April 1990 as a national organisation, the WOSA was opposed to racism, tribalism and sexism and supports socialism, accountability, democracy and the leadership of the black working class.

The group was formed by a need for an organization that could raise workers issues without being aligned to any political party and has dealt with working conditions, wages, unemployment, housing, education, health and transport. It also claimed that theAfrican National Congresswas raising hopes which were unrealisable undercapitalism.Instead, for the1994 South African general election,it formed theWorkers List Partyin alliance with theInternational Socialist Movement (South Africa)(ISM), which shared much of the politics of (but was not affiliated to) theInternational Socialist Tendency.The aim was to build a massworkers' party.The group took only 4,169 votes, and the Workers List was soon abandoned.

The organisation, chaired byNeville Alexander,soon formed links withWorkers Liberty,but following a disillusionment after the poor election result, its membership declined and it changed direction. In 1997, it hosted a conference with the Italian groupSocialismo Rivoluzionario,also attended byLalitfrom Mauritius and the International Bolshevik Tendency.It was close to theUnited Secretariat of the Fourth Internationaland publishedVukani BasebenziandWorkers' Voice.