Interesting positions ahead of the NUMSA convened Peoples Assembly. Note especially that FAWU says: If indeed the United Front will take a character of a party-political formation, as opposed to a broader front and coalition of civil society formations, FAWU will reserve its rights as it firmly believes that the battle for the soul and direction of the ANC remains the only viable platform available to the working class. FAWU Press Statement, 12 December 2014 NUMSA-initiated Assembly on United Front The President and General Secretary of the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), respectively Attwell Nazo and Katishi Masemola, will be attending and participating at the Assembly on United Front as initiated by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) on the 13-14 December 2014. Both, as they engage and debate, will be guided by the mandated position of the Special FAWU NEC meeting held in March 2014 in Cape Town. In brief, the mandate fully supports, in principle, the setting up of a United Front (UF) but as a platform to take forward the struggles of communities and workers, from a working class perspective, against the State-unleashed neoliberal policy program against and Capital-driven intensified class exploitation of the working class. However, while the UF initiative talks to the COSATU resolutions on the setting up of coalition of civil society formations, we have a concern that NUMSA is independently pursuing with without taking the federation with and, in the middle of the paralysed COSATU, without involvement of other affiliates interested in the implementation of COSATU Resolutions. If indeed the United Front will take a character of a party-political formation, as opposed to a broader front and coalition of civil society formations, FAWU will reserve its rights as it firmly believes that the battle for the soul and direction of the ANC remains the only viable platform available to the working class. The same principles apply on the Movement for Socialism in which the same NEC agreed that this initiative talks to the existing COSATU Resolution of the convening of the Conference of the Left. Again, Movement for Socialism must be a product for this Conference of the Left, in which the South African Communist Party must be part and play a role, in order to take forward the struggle for socialism. The President and the General Secretary of FAWU will articulate those mandated position as we seek to convince NUMSA delegates to the Assembly and the other invited guests of the appropriateness and correctness of FAWUs stances on both initiatives. Issued by: Katishi Masemola, FAWU General Secretary For more information feel free to contact the FAWU General Secretary, Katishi Masemola, at 082 467 2509
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:24:47 +0000
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