Ngubane said Numsa would discuss at its special national congress in December a possible split from Cosatu and the issue of campaigning for the ANC.Members will look at whether we should continue to be affiliated to Cosatu even if it is no longer biting. At no point are we going to say we accept the NDP or the wage subsidy. If we support the ANCs election campaign now, would we be able to stand firm after the elections and say we reject the NDP? For us, there is nothing personal. Our members are not employed by the ANC but are in the private sector and organised by the working class, said Ngubane.We are now realising the ANC is not prepared to deliver to the working class. They have rejected all our demands, including scrapping of labour brokers, doing away with inflation targeting, e-tolls and the NDP. What it is that has been delivered by the ANC government for the working class?Every time we raise these issues, we are told to follow internal processes. We are also elected by our own members. We must be able to account to them, he said. Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim recently attacked the ANC for failing to improve the conditions of the working class.All the positive hype before the Mangaung ANC conference, such as the need for a radical second phase of transition involving radical economic policies in line with the Freedom Charter, have been drowned out by the NDP and the refusal by the leading elites in the ANC to nationalise the commanding heights of the economy. We are now witnessing the destruction of Cosatu as an independent organ of the working class.It is very clear that members of the South African black working class are faced with two extreme options - succumb to the domination of right-wing neoliberal capitalism, or fight to end national, gender and class oppression and exploitation by advancing the struggle for a national democratic revolution …It is also very clear that the working class must either hand over Cosatu to the rightwingers in the liberation movement or forget about a campaigning, militant and revolutionary federation, or fight to retain Cosatu as a socialist and revolutionary federation, Jim said.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:31:26 +0000
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