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On August 16, South African police opened fire on striking miners at the Lonmin mine, near Johannesburg. The police shot dead 34 miners and injured 78 more. While ANC leader and South African president Joseph Zuma has called for a commission of inquiry and declared a national week of mourning. Cyril Ramaphosa, once a militant workers’ leader and now a multi-millionaire with shares in the Lonmin mine, has offered to pay for the funerals. Zuma and Ramaphosa are total hypocrites. The massacre of these workers is the perfectly logical outcome of the entire course of the ANC since it won the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. The entire ANC is rotten to the core because its primary commitment is to managing capitalism in South Africa, a course which also has the happy result of enriching a whole layer of ANC bureaucrats and converting them into millionaires. For an analysis of this course, see here<http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/south-africas-non-revolution/>. (This is a paper from 1999, which lays out the evolution of South African capitalism and the ANC.) The massacre and the evolution of the ANC is of direct relevance to the Irish struggle for several reasons. The development of the ANC is similar to that of Fatah in the Palestine, the Sandinistas after their removal from power, and the Provos in Ireland. In each. . . Full at: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/massacring-miners-the-anc-the-provos-and-the-lessons-for-the-struggle-in-ireland/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
