Fellow South Africans, especially the workers and poor and the lower strata of the middle class. Food is expensive! Building materials are expensive. Household care materials including all kinds of soaps are expensive. Shool uniforms and related expenses are expensive. Transport is expensive. Fuel is worst. In fact all day-to-day cost of living is expensive, and rising, very fast. When you buy keep the receipts of common denominators and plot an X and Y axis to generate a graph. You will see, that the general movement is an exponentially upward trend. In fact some items are priced this much this month and next month the prices are up and so on. When I was in the trade union movement one of the responsibilities I held is Chief Negotiator and Head of Bargaining. I conducted lot of research and tracked inflation on a monthly basis item by item. I dont know what the December 2014 inflation will look like. But one thing for sure the prices of red meet and chicken and beverages will shoot up. The prices of building materials due to urban renovations and rural household constructions and renovations will shoot up. Often bourgeois economists mislead the workers by telling them: Consumer Price Index (measure of inflation) is so much. Your wage demands are unreasonable. Our commentators on radio often take the bait. The fact is many poor households, the workers and lower layers of the middle strata find themselves on a month on month basis with inflationary costs that are above or way above the CPI. The month of January has a lot of prove to exhibit to many people who are on shopping Qs now. When Walmart came to SA Im one of those trade unionists who generated an affidavit against its global practices and likely impact of local production and jobs based on my economic policy studies and literature review. However I didnt succeed to go and present my case as I was in negotiations in PE. There are several facts that need a review. The price impact has, in a number of cases not lowered as many people thought. It has arisen, actually. Just go the the shops and see. We really need the Right to feed, eat, clothe and shelter movement against capital. Otherwise our struggles will degenerate into demands for the state to pay (free this and free that) while capital laughs all the way to the banks. Prices have become irrational and have lost almost all relation to the cost of production, logistics, inventory (which is by the way increasingly replaced with Just in Time) and retail - consult Karl Marxs Capital Vol 2 for a full study of the circulation of Capital. Farm workers for example are among the lowest paid to the extent the sector has been declared a vulnerable sector where the state intervenes by legislating bare minimum wages which the commercial farm owners treat as MAXIMUM wages. But go to the shops to see for yourselves how much are farm workers products. Study the profits to see for yourself to avoid a bad influence from a Marxist-Leninist like me. If Eskom must justify why it needs price increases why must the rest not do so especially in basic material needs? We can no longer afford to leave price determination in the hands of the bourgeois alone. To hell with market rule to hell! The sooner we stand up the better!
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:22:23 +0000
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