Whether one likes it or not, comrade Jim is a commissar! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
-----Original Message----- From: Castro Ngobese <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:42:36 To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Take responsibility for future: NUMSA Take responsibility for future - Numsa April 22 2012 By SAPA steve lawrence Numsa General Secretary Irvin Jim. Picture: Steve Lawrence Johannesburg - Overcoming poverty and unequal socio-economic conditions was a necessary step towards taking responsibility for the future of the ANC, SACP and Cosatu, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) general secretary said in Ekurhuleni on Saturday. Irvin Jim said the African National Congress led liberation movement had been set up for failure by its shift away from a radical revolutionary path. It was impossible for the ideals of the Freedom Charter to be realised without redistributing South Africa's wealth. “This could be achieved through nationalisation of key commanding heights of the economy as demanded by the Freedom Charter. “In Zimbabwe, elements of the Freedom Charter on land have been implemented and still the sun still rises and sets,” Jim said. He said that the country's mineral wealth was foreign owned and controlled, leaving the main constituencies of the ANC, SA Communist Party and Congress of SA Trade Unions to struggle against inequality and poor service delivery. “We must be clear therefore that the triple crisis of poverty, unemployment and inequalities is a result of the economy being dominated... by white monopoly capital accumulated only by white population in the country and its small black and African parasites,” Jim said. “It is time to be firm with humility and resoluteness and we must take no prisoners in defending the ANC, SACP and Cosatu.” This should include clearing up “confusion” in all organisations of the mass democratic movement and youth leagues, he said. Jim also criticised the government's failure to ban labour brokers and deal with concerns around Gauteng e-tolling. - Sapa Sent from my iPad -- 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] . -- 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] .
