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By *Federico Fuentes*, Johannesburg
August 23, 2014 -- Around 30 guests from across the globe and 120 shop
stewards from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA)
met August 7-10, 2014, in Johannesburg to discuss the prospects and
challenges of building a new, left political alternative to the ruling
African National Congress (ANC), the party of deceased national hero
Nelson Mandela.
This call by the country's largest trade union, with more than 400,000
members, has caused reverberations throughout the working class as a
whole, and has led some in the media to describe the process as "likely
to lead to the birth of a workers' party that will eventually challenge
[the ANC] for power".
NUMSA's challenge to the established status quo has also highlighted the
many dangers and challenges it faces, perhaps most graphically
illustrated by the murder of three of its shop stewards on the eve of
the symposium.
That NUMSA's call has received so much attention can be explained by the
reality of South African society, 20 years after the fall of apartheid.
Full article at http://links.org.au/node/4015
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