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From: Ashley Fataar <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:53 PM
Subject: [SSN Forum] Keep Left statement on Public Sector Unions Strike
To: Swazi Solidarity Network <
[email protected]>
Keep Left (Cape Town branch): Statement in Full Solidarity with the Public
Workers Strike!
26 August 2010
Support and Expand the Public Workers Strike
In its front page of Tuesday 24 August the Cape Argus disgracefully claimed
that less than one-tenth of a percent of public sector workers were holding
the strike in Western Cape. Yet barely 24 hours later thousands more workers
came out on strike. The Times of 11 August correctly labels the dispute as *A
War Between South Africa’s Classes*.
We are told that there is no money for wage increases. Yet cabinet ministers
spend millions on BMWs and Audis while living in Five-Star luxury hotels.
Daily working class patients die from lack of medicines and a shortage of
medical personnel in state and council clinics and hospitals but these same
councils and government spent R 33 billion on world cup stadia.
South Africa’s wealth is still held hostage by a tiny
minority of very rich people. Many of those who got rich did so during
apartheid. Some got rich after the end of apartheid. This group of filthy
bastards grab most of South Africa’s wealth then leave us to fight over the
scraps whilst wrongly blaming our neighbours for the poverty.
*This minority group also wants to criminalise the right to
strike. This is bullshit!! As workers we made heroic sacrifices during
apartheid that saw us winning the right to strike. Now they want to take it
away.*
We must build a powerful movement to impose our will – the
will of the vast majority regardless of party political affiliation or union
membership. The time for dividing ourselves over our own class strength is
over. This is the time for practical solidarity across all the struggles of
our class. Workers, unemployed, service delivery protesters, sub-contracted
and permanent workers, locals and migrants are all impoverished by
capitalism. When we resist we all meet the rubber bullets and water cannon
that defend the rich investors and their allies.
*Mobilise for COSATU’s call for a Complete General Strike in solidarity with
Public Sector Workers!*
*Pay the Workers! Deliver the Services!
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*Jobs for the Unemployed! Ban Labour Brokers!*
*Fight to keep Police, Wardens and Soldiers Unionised!*
*To advance our struggle laws and court orders will have to be broken just
as under apartheid!***
*AMANDLA!*
P.O. Box 356, Newlands 7725, Cape Town - Phone: 074 148 4948 - Email:
[email protected]
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