>Try and remove Cosatu leaders, ask Madisha.And others tried and failed.You will also suffer the same fate. Regards Manelisi Tyatyantsi Eskom price increases 2009-2010- putting the burden of falling profits of > International banks on the working class locally. > That Nersa is once again excluding the millions of the urban and rural > poor > From hearings shows that they have already taken a decision to increase > Electricity rates. > South Africa, Africa and much of the neo-colonial world are in the throes > of > an > Economic onslaught by international big capital. Eskom is spearheading an > Attack on the working class in South Africa by 20%+ annual electricity > Increases, that are only being sought to rescue the profit levels of the > giant > Banks and corporations. Bankrupt banks such as Citibank, Bank of New York, > JP Morgan Chase are major shareholders not only in coal mines but also > Westinhouse, Areva, Alstom, General Electric-Hitachi, Murray & Roberts, > Group 5. These are the very companies who stand to benefit from the > Proposed Eskom build programme. > With the demothballing process due to complete within a few months the > Capacity of Eskom would stand at 44 000 Megawatts. With Statssa predicting > An increased need of only 100MW per annum (this was before the wave of > Factory closures), there is simply no evidence of a need to double > capacity > Within 10 years. That a In a climate of speculatively high construction > and > Housing costs, the scam to spend R1,3 trillion on building coal and > nuclear > Power stations that we do not need amounts to only one thing: it is a > Mechanism to rob the working class in broad daylight- in other words it is > an > Artificial mechanism to increase the rate of exploitation and provides a > cover > For a trillion rand to be taken out of the country to fill the coffers of > JP > Morgan > Chase, Citibank and other imperialist banks. > Already the homelite client in the squatter camp pays more than 3 times > the > Rate that big industry pays. The working class is subsdizing the > electricity > of > The monopolies. Any increase means that Anglo American still pays the > Cheapest electricity in the world but the worker and unemployed in the > Squatter camp is expected to pay more than the residents pay in France, > USA > And Canada. > A University of Johannesburg researcher has developed the mechanism to > Produce solar power at 50% of current cost. There is also technology > around > Saline solar cells for energy storage and similar technology that can be > used > As viable alternatives to coal and nuclear. > What is even more disgusting is the betrayal by the Cosatu leadership who > Have bought into the notion that there needs to be this massive > expenditure > For coal power stations. Not only did they and their alliance partners > agree > last > Year in their energy summit that phased increases can take place over the > Next 5 years, but now Cosatu, in their Framework of a response to the > International Economic crisis, calls for a once off-energy tax. In this > betrayal > They are singing the tune of the imperialists and justifying greater > exploitation > Of the working class. What was needed was a general strike in defence of > our > Living standards. > 61 > A further contradiction is that the major part of the current R700 Bn for > Infrastructure is made up of building these power stations that the > working > Class and lower middle class will not use. Under the guise of job > creation, > the > ANC-SACP and COSATU leaders are leading the attack on the working class, > Privatizing and casualising what should be full-time municipal work, and > even > Setting the framework of the ‘jobs’ on this get-rich-quick scheme for the > International banks. ANC leaders are not only on the boards of the banks > but > Also on the coal and construction companies that stand to benefit from the > Eskom scam. These ‘loan billionaires’ (such as Tokyo Sexwale) will do > Everything in their power to advance their imperialist paymasters wishes. > We call on the working class to remove this Cosatu leadership immediately > And to replace them with leaders who are prepared to fight in defence of > the > Working class. We call for workers to form committees in every workplace > and > Every working class community to launch a campaign to defend the working > class’ living standards against the attacks of high prices, unemployment > and > Permanent mass homelessness. > Build solar power! End the subsidy to big business! Decrease the rate for > Residential users! A block tariff should be implemented. Increase the free > Electricity provision to at least 100 units per person per household per > month. > Decent Houses for all! Occupy vacant buildings and land! > Share the work among all who can work, without loss of pay! > No to retrenchments and closures! Sack the bosses! Occupy! Expropriate! > Increase all wages by a minimum of 30%, wages to increase when prices do; > Capitalism is the crisis, working class power the solution! > Workers International Vanguard League > Ph 0822020617 > Ph 0214476777 fax: 0865486048 > [email protected] > Website www.workersinternational.org.za > > >
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