ANC, WHAT A HEARTLESS SOUL.



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 It was not an accident that thousands of police loaded their guns with live ammunition, shot dead more than 35 workers and wounded 78. The police officers who shot to kill  and those who gave them their orders are free but 259 striking workers were arrested, what crime have these workers committed. What happened to freedom of rights in South Africa, a right to life and fair labour. Where has our democracy gone to?. On the 15th of August the ANC issued a statement commending the SAPS for deploying 3000 heavily armed police in Marikan North West. Has the Government forgotten why we have a police force?. Somebody should remind them that it was not for them to used as a method of violence to organise the working class.

WHY IS NUM BETRAYING WORKERS...



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Workers in South Africa can not even depend and trust their unions anymore after bieng betrayed by the NUM and the COSATU, how could they. Arnt unions formed to protect workers rights and speak on their behalf?. Why would NUM yell for Lonmin bosses, the police, and the army to put an end to the workers striking for R12.500 per month while the NUM General Secretary now earns R105 000 per month, what kind of a man expects another man to feed his family with a wage of R4000, knowing very well the conditions that this man works under on a daily bases.

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THE ANC TAKES THE ROAD OF VIOLENCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

The road from Ficksburg to Marikana is littered with bullets and armoured cras that have been used to suppress struggles of communities and workers for social justice and a decent life. With the massacre at Marikana the ANC government has embraced the philosophy of the old apartheid state of "shoot first and set up a commission later"...The long line of massacres the the ANC government has placed itself in is longer than both my arms...

• Massacres of the working class from Bulhoek in 1921.
• The massacres of miners in 1946.
• Sharpville in 1960.
• Soweto in 1976.
• Langa in 1985.
• Boipatong  in 1992. 

The workers refusal to end the strike  and their preparedness to face state machines guns speaks to deep preparedness to struggle. A major challenge facing a new cadre of struggle is to overcome the culture of political violence that has been inherited from the previous cycle of of straggle. The spirit of the Marikana workers can only can only be honoured by an intensification of the struggle to build and strengthen a new, organised  and militant anti-capitalist working class movement, said Khanya during a press conference held at the University of Johannesburg Bunting Roads on the 22nd of August.