** *Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least!*
Hi Comrades Well, I still have to renew my membership with the SACP and YCL since it lapsed eight years ago and am still hesitant, but will eventually renew it - afterall, it's still my hope that my organisation that I have respect for, will somehow come to its sense, i.e. waging a revolutionary fight for workers control. *Can please anyone provide me with SACP/YCL contacts here in Jo'burg? * It is evident that the ANC, SACP and COSATU refuses to confront capitalism, this is partly because of their own business interests and that of some of its leading members, are incapable of meeting the challenges confronting humanity today. Labour Brokers represent the exhaustion of a system that is driven by accumu;ation and competition. These scavengers are all carying the number one flag in competing for who best makes most profit and in the process, exploiting the workers. Although the lunchtime pickets posed a chauvinist character (as indicated by Cde Shaheen), the message is permiating the people and strikes against labour brokers will intensify. This is a picture of people in motion protesting against the conditions they live and work under - responding to the national crises of labour brokers. The future rests in the hands of the workers and soon they (workers) will realise that they are being mislead by their trusted leaders and solve their problems themselves, history tells it all. As you have also indicated cde, a general strike is necessary to put pressure on the government to ban this evil labour brokering. I would encourage every comrade to mobilise and inform workers about the unbecoming working conditions they are subjected to. Encourage them to support every working class strikes, because the future, as indicated above, liesin the hands of the working class. Lastly, workers are not stupid, and they don't forget - this cat and mouse game and deceit by their leaders will soon come to an end. And workers won't even want to think about them, afterall they showed to be greedy, opportunistic and very much looked after themselves in the expense of the workers. *" how can equal status be demonstrated so that those who have been assigned less status historically will then experience equal status?"* ** *ALUTA CONTINUA* Yours comradely Mpho Lebese 082 069 1741 On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]>wrote: > *Comments, anyone?* > * > * > *VC* > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Shaheed Mahomed <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/10/7 > Subject: How the SACP betrayed the struggle against labour brokers and > casualisation of labour- 7.10.09 > To: news <[email protected]> > > > When the SACP 'discovered' that labour brokers were a problem and that it > was necessary to have a campaign against them, the way the campaign was > posed was deliberately to act militant for the sake of the Cosatu Congress, > while at the same time to divert the anger of the working class from > monopoly capital and its attacks on workers. When the campaign was adopted > at the Cosatu Congress a day of 'action' was proposed (7 Oct 2009)- > lunchtime pickets at some hearings and in some industrial areas. > > Without the permission of monopoly capital, labour brokers would not exist; > thus what was really necessary was a general strike to force monopoly > capital to end these slavery conditions. This was avoided and faith was > placed in the leadership of the alliance, the amabhulu omnyama of the ANC to > legislate an end to labour broking. let's not hold our breathe to wait for > the ANC to enforce this minimal democratic demand but let us draw the lesson > of the counter-revolutionary role of the SACP and Cosatu leadership, who in > the face of the world capitalist attack are now the vanguard of imperialism > in the ranks of the working class. We cannot place a programme against > stalinism in the hands of the stalinists themselves. > > Forward to a general strike for an emergency workers plan, calling for the > expropriation of the banks, mines, food, clothing, transport, energy sector, > construction, health sectors, without compensation and for them to be placed > under workers control. > > -- > Shaheed Mahomed > Secretary > Workers International Vanguard League > 1st Floor, Community House > 41 Salt River rd > Salt River > South Africa > 7925 > ph 0822020617 > fax 0865486048 > [email protected] > web www.workersinternational.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] . 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