politics for the 99%

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 946, by NUMSA, March 6, 2014.

A. The world we live in today and our 20 years of “Democracy”:

It is impossible to deny that the world has seen the most severe crisis of the global capitalist system. And, there is no end in sight, to this crisis.  

More than anything else, what makes the current systemic and structural global crisis of capitalism more dangerous and frightening than in the past is the total intellectual, ideological, political and moral bankruptcy of the world capitalist leaders and their capitalist theorists: they have no answer to what increasingly appears to be the world’s relentless progression toward mass poverty, worldwide unemployment, growing extreme global inequalities within and between nations of the world, vicious and extremely violent civil and international wars, global warming, environmental destruction – all pointing to the eventual destruction of our Earth and all life on it.

The neoliberal “Washington Consensus” has been completely discredited and confirmed dead especially by the 2007/08 global financial capitalist crises.

There is no alternative to discarding the theories and practices of capitalism, if we must save the Earth and its living systems. No amount of cosmetic reforms either in the centre of the global capitalist system nor anywhere in its periphery can hide the most obvious fact today: at a time when humanity has the most profound knowledge and technology, the world capitalist system of private greed risks all our lives and the very Earth we live on.

Mankind today is faced with one choice: abandon the capitalist system or perish by it.

We at NUMSA have no illusion that only a total destruction of capitalism and all it represents can save the Earth and give birth to a new civilization, a new reordering of common and democratic ownership, production and consumption patterns along a higher human life and Earth respecting human civilization. Such a civilization is Socialism.

A.1. The South African “Democratic Transition” and squandered opportunity: … //

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… H. What is to be done?

As Lenin so well said, in 1913: “People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.”

Twenty years into our “democracy,” we the Black and African South African working-class are sick and tired of listening to the same stories about us having to wait for the rich to grow their profits for us to see some minor improvements in our lives.

The working-class can only be defeated because it is not united. United, no force on Earth can defeat us.

As immediate tasks, we state the following:

• NUMSA is calling all South African workers, Black and White and African, to join us in our United Front to demand the immediate and radical implementation of the Freedom Charter as the only basis for a truly democratic South Africa and in our fight against all neoliberal manifestations.
• We are calling on all members of affiliates of COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) to demand that their national leaders explain where they stand today, on the ongoing crisis in COSATU.
• We call on all members of affiliates of COSATU to stand up and defend their federation from the vultures who want to turn it into a toy telephone of the ANC and the SACP (South African Communist Party).
• We call on all mineworkers to stand together, united against the mine bosses and the government who are both fighting mining workers in their just struggle for a living wage.
• As NUMSA, we fully support the just demands for a living wage for the mineworkers. We remain convinced, however, that with the increasing marriage between the ANC (African National Congress) and its government and the mine bosses and shareholders, no just wage will be secured by mine workers.

We therefore call upon all workers to intensify the struggle to nationalize South African wealth, including the mines and land.

Our consistent Marxist-Leninist inspired class analysis of the world and South Africa today informs us that we have no option but to fight to the bitter end, for a Socialist world and Socialist South Africa.

(full long text – Issued by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa NUMSA, National Office Bearers).

Links:

Essay zur Urkaine: (Neue Welt Ordnung) NWO-Angriff auf Russland, Offener Brief an Obama (mit langem Vorword), im Lichtwelt-Verlag (Quelle: volya-naroda.ru), von Jahn J. Kassl (JJK), am 6.März 2014;
(Dieser “Essay” erging als “Leserbrief” an sämtliche Tageszeitungen und Wochenmagazine in Österreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz, sowie an Spitzenpolitiker in Österreich).

Das Biest 666, im Lichtwelt-Verlag, von Jahn J. Kassl (JJK), am 21. Februar 2014;

Gun debate reignites with rumoured ban of Classic Green rifle: Gun owners are ready to fight the prohibition of a modified semi-automatic military-style weapon, on CBCnews/politics, Feb 27, 2014;

Karunesh: Earthsong, 5.40 min, uploaded by simonaflorea2008, Sept. 22, 2008.