Mentioning the decision by major independent unions to forming a new super federation of industrially based trade unions. Also included the story of the strike by Amato Textile workers in 1958, and the story of the Magopa people.

Last issue of FOSATU Workers News, before the launch of COSATU, including T-shirt project for fund raising; "The making of the working class" Final Part - Period 1973 up till now (1985); "What is education?" Part 2.

Irish boycott of South African products; Workers' Party in Brazil; findings of the Kannemyer Report relating to the Langa shootings; "The making of the working class" Part 14 - The Council of Non-European Trade Unions; Bata shoe label, home work.

FOSATU Education Workshop, Jabulani Stadium, Soweto.

Covering the Langa march on 21 March 1985; "The making of the working class" Part 12 - The first Industrial Unions; reporting about the British miners' strike.

Containing a poster for May Day; reporting about the settlement reached between the Chemical Workers Industrial Union and Sasol; "The making of the working class" Part 11 - The ICU collapses; American protests against Apartheid; report about the unions and the motor industry in South Africa.

Including "The making of the working class" Part 10 - The formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU); also containing a pull-out calendar for 1985 .

Including Dunlop strike; "The making of the working class" depicting the slums of Ferreirastown and Sophiatown.

With photographs from the FOSATU Worker Festival; an interview with a British miner; "The making of the working class" Part 7 - 1907-1922 white workers revolt. Also containing 1 page praise poem to FOSATU, written by Alfred Qabula, together with his manuscript.

Including "The making of the working class" Part 7 - Indian indented labour in Natal.