SACP NORTH WEST PROVINCE ON THE COSATU LED PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE Wednesday, 25 August 2010
The South African Communist Party (SACP) North West province calls on all our democratic movement to support COSATU on its call for a total general strike in the country following the unnecessary intransigence demonstrated by our government on this matter. It is by now very clear that our government is determined not to move progressively in dealing with the public sector strike, which in reality means the testing of the class balance of forces in the country – and therefore requires the vanguard of the working class and the poor to show how strong is the main motive of forces of the revolution, the working and the poor. In our understanding the current strike is not just about salaries and housing allowances it is more about the country and our strategic objectives of bettering the lives of all our people. When nurses and doctors are on strike the working class and the poor are unable to receive their basic need of health services, when teachers go on strike it is the sons and daughters of the working class and the poor who are negatively affected by the strike, if the police and the army go on strike it is the poor and the working class who are faced with unsafe conditions subjected to criminals and crime, therefore it is on these basis that as the SACP in the North West province we call on all our people to support the public sector workers ,not only on sentimental basis of solidarity, but equally to ensure that the government meet the workers demands without playing a propaganda game of fabricating stories it call facts in the media. The government is clear on one important issue that the media can be used for one issue or another – as long as it will dominate the public opinion on and about the strike. Perhaps in response the COSATU public sector unions should equally use all the progressive media to ensure that they clarify their stance on the strike and ensure that the public understands the reasons for a strike, contrary to cheap government propaganda machinery. Besides, we know that the government in this context it is in an illegitimate alliance with the capitalist sector of the fourth estate – and therefore their adverts are cheap and lousy in our view. Many will be very concern as to the reasons stated by government in its attempt to intimidate workers through the courts – this is very ironic in essence, because clearly the government is intimidating workers – it means it is not willing to meet the workers demands and in so doing it uses all it has to ensure that it does not meet the demands. We are all of a sudden, told about the economy and service delivery, though we know that better salaries for workers have nothing to do with service delivery, instead tenderpreneurs are the ones who are negatively blocking and negatively affecting service delivery due to their stealing of public money through their corrupt manners of getting tenders. As the SACP in the North West province we further call on COSATU and its public sector unions to integrate in its struggle the question of corruption – for us some in government and other forces are opposed to the public sector strike mainly because in their imagination and corrupt intentions of financial gains, they will be affected if the government is to meet the demands of the public sector workers. CONTACT: Kaizer Mohau SACP NW provincial Spokesperson Tel/fax: 018 462 5675 Mobile: 072 080 2824/0727315818 Or Madoda Sambatha SACP NW provincial Secretary Mobile: 082 800 5336 -- 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] .
