Reforms are necessary only if they advance the material and intelectual well-being of the working class and its communities. This is what we should be measuring them against. Any reform that back tracks and undermine the gains and the present struggles of the working class should be challenged and militatly fought against. The the questions is, does the present nationalised enterprises advance the itelectual and material well-being of the working class? Will the nationalisation of mines result into the advancement of the working class intelectually and materially? In both questions the answear is no! Simply because one of the reasons is that they are ran like any other capitalist undertaking. I think the key issue here is to build workers control from below and in order to do that we need revolutionary education, democratic organisations and united agitation. With the global financial crisis we have seen in America, Agetina, Spain, Britan workers taking over factories and putting them under workers control. At times forcing the capitalist to give more concessions that they would not have made if the workers did not militantly stood by their demands.
What are the workers being encouraged to do in SA and somewhere else, is to be on short time, give up some of the benefits won in by the past struggles, opt for retrechment etc. These definately weakens the working class capability to organise and fight against capitalism, undermines the material and legislative gains made. Thus any progressive reform advancing the working class made within the capitalism is in a risk of being taken away at any time that the ruling class interest - profits - are threatened and this is what is happening right now. The working class is under attack and it is on the defensive position. The working class have to first take over state power and it will be only then that it can transform society according to the needs of the working class - the majority. > From: [email protected] > Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: the NP govt was more socialist than the ANC > govt. > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:49:31 +0200 > > > Comrade Wonder > > The approach of questioning why the League was quiet during > the Telkom saga at this stage is like those who raise the > "WE TOLD YOU SO" sentiment, when a political issue present > itselfs. In as much as the ANC is a contested political > terrain in terms of ideological predominance the same can > be said about the ANCYL. > > The important issue is what we do when the league's > perspectives converge with ours as it is on the issue of > nationalization. Hence I earlier said their public > declaration has openned a much needed public debate and has > in my view in a sense also opened an oppportunity for a > discussion on a left orienated economic discourse. We can > thus discuss the modalities and charecter of > nationalization in the current context to advance working > class interests. Its safe to state this for now. > > Mxolisi > --- > Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za] > > > _________________________________________________________________ See all the ways you can stay connected to friends and family http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
