AIDC+Right+to+Work+campaign+anti+ANC+and+COSATU

=Re: Fw: Bye-bye ANC?=

Of the total of the voting age eligible to vote (am including here those who could have but did not register to vote) only 1 in 4 voted ANC in the local elections-seems just like in many liberal democracies a 'democratic deficit' is opening up (but its happening a lot, lot quicker here). Looking at the front pages of the Cape Times this morning it looked a bit like 1986 rather than 2006. Of course its still very, very different (although we have a COSATU general strike this week and over 5000 'recorded' legal protests last year, not including strikes) but scenes like yesterday will happen more and more as people find alternative ways to express the anger and frustrations, dashed hopes etc that have been brewing since the early 1990s.... hence COSATU's support for the false messiah Zuma...- am sure we will see very interesting re-alignments inside the ANC very soon, something like you get in the Labour Party in the UK, blocks of groups/activists pushing for change from the inside...won't be enough but its a start...we must work with such people and recognise for them that its much easier to rearrange the pieces on the chess set rather than throw the chess set out of the window.

How about a statement of solidarity from people/groups for the arrested workers/leaders yesterday. This is a clear attack by the state on the working class movement in one of the best and most militant strikes for years. The Right to Work and Coalition Against Poverty will be putting one out....

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