Cde Mdu We must all agree what we know about this case is what comes from engagement with each other and the media. The TV flighting of the incidence indicate that we should actually be talking about state violence. Soldiers fleeing and police shooting them from the back. So we may at the end come to the conclusion that nothing was regrettable on the part of the soldiers.
To answer some of your questions we may actually have no other option to engagement amongst state and unions, this is not bureaucratic. Unfortunately the DoD is of the view the Minister cannot be in boardrooms every day with unions. Who called for that is this not evassive? Unfortunately we cannot ignore the fact that we live in a capitalist society. our task is to use the continuous crisis that charecterise capitalist society to educate the working class not to be "a class in itself but a class for itself." I dont see any black on black violence in this matter but state violence. In the context of the NDR we are engaged in a class struggle that will be overt and covert from time to time but certainly unending in the context of capitalism. Let me also state that we must not allow the soldiers to be used to entrench a culture of low wages and a digression from quality jobs. If we differ with the leadership in this regard, when they digress from agreed ANC positions theres nothing wrong about workers action.Did we not agree at Polokwane about quality jobs? We cannot go back to the pre - Polokwane period where the wrong views of leaders was sacrosanct. I must say that whilst the approach of the unions has been radical it has been respectful towards the Minister and leadership, whilst there has been an attempt to propject them as reckless. Mxolisi --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
