our message of support to the Numsa United Front strike today 19th March: Workers International Vanguard Party message of solidarity to Numsa Workers International Vanguard Party salute Numsa for its bold initiative to break from the ANC and SACP and their DA-inspired youth slavery programme. · Anglo American and other mining monopolies have stolen (and still steal) more than R200 bn every year through transfer pricing, mislabelling and tax evasion. A further R400 bn is repatriated from SA to the shores of London and New York where 85 capitalists own more than half the world’s wealth. During 2007 these mining monopolies stole R700bn (the mines label Platinum as Palladium and pay less tax). Here are the funds for full employment but the govt does everything to support the very capitalists who are the biggest rogues and thieves. Anglo American not only steals Trillions but is also refusing to pay the striking mineworkers a living wage- they have been on strike for R12 500 for 7 weeks now. The mines should be expropriated, without compensation and placed under workers control- this is the way to full employment. · Our concern is that the Cosatu leaders have not challenged the theft by the imperialists; our concern is that they are campaigning for workers to vote for the very party that stands for youth slavery; our concern is that the Cosatu Investment company Kopano ke Matla and the Mineworkers Investment company have taken a stake in the R50bn locomotive contract. The Chinese contractor CSR is on record to have supplied defective locomotives to Namibia which had to be withdrawn from service within days due to massive structural defects- the same contract does not involve real local manufacturing but assembly of parts produced in slave camps in China. The same CSR did not even deliver on the 95 pilot locomotives last year but now, on the 17th March, the entire contract goes ahead. The Public Protector should investigate this corruption. · Under apartheid, the old regime used to charge tax on profits at a rate of 48% but the ANC govt has reduced tax on profits down to 28%. The very capitalists who are responsible for not creating jobs for the youth are now being paid subsidies by the ANC govt. · The ANC is opening up ‘special economic zones’ (something supported by DA, Cope and EFF)- here there are no minimum wages, no benefits such as pension, even no minimum age. The big danger is that many companies will, as they did in the days of apartheid, close down, and move to the slave zones. · Many companies may claim the subsidy for ghost workers (as they did pre-1994) · We call on all affiliates of Cosatu to follow Numsa’s lead and break decisively from the ANC and SACP · Forward to a Special Congress of Cosatu to prepare a fighting action plan on an independent basis, with leadership who have decisively broken from the capitalist alliance with the ANC and SAP · Join Numsa United front, which unites all workers, irrespective of affiliation, unionised or in communities. · Forward to the building of a revolutionary working class party, locally, regionally and internationally · Forward to Socialism!
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:10:31 +0000
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