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socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts) Fri Jul 4, 2014, 12:44 PM Jul 2014

Our comrades in NUMSA are making some revolutionary noise.....

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/labour/2014/06/30/numsa-to-push-ahead-with-strike-despite-ill-effects-on-the-economy

This is a BIG ass trade union in South Africa. The UAW brought some of the leadership here to middle Tennessee for a conference and a Q&A which I was able to participate in and the guys from NUMSA were IMPRESSIVE.

One thing Comrade Jim said in the article I thought was particularly striking. "When the economy is bad the bosses make money. When the economy is good the bosses make money." That's it in a nutshell.

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Our comrades in NUMSA are making some revolutionary noise..... (Original Post) socialist_n_TN Jul 2014 OP

And...IT'S ON!!!!!! socialist_n_TN Jul 2014 #1

K&R Teamster Jeff Jul 2014 #3

More on NUMSA and the big strike....... socialist_n_TN Jul 2014 #2

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)

1. And...IT'S ON!!!!!!

Reply to socialist_n_TN (Original post)

Sat Jul 5, 2014, 12:52 PM

Jul 2014

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/07/pictures-south-africa-massive-str-2014738341122397.html

My question at this point becomes: Is this left turn and revolutionary talk just a tactic in an economistic strategy of getting higher wages? Or is it truly a revolutionary surge with the goal of taking political power?

Teamster Jeff

(1,598 posts)

3. K&R

Reply to socialist_n_TN (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 6, 2014, 03:44 PM

Jul 2014

“A demand for a living wage is political, because it is politics that allowed such conditions 20 years into a democracy,” Vavi said

Well said.

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)

2. More on NUMSA and the big strike.......

Reply to socialist_n_TN (Original post)

Sun Jul 6, 2014, 09:54 AM

Jul 2014

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-07-02-numsa-strike-it-is-about-politics-stupid/#.U7lR-MEo6M_

Interesting dynamic developing. While the strike is gaining support with other big trade union organizations in other industries, there seems to be a fear that that support will come with the strings of "economism" attached.

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