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Title: What we belive Author: Workers’ Solidarity Federation Date: 1998 Language: en Topics: South Africa, Workers Solidarity Federation, anarcho-syndicalism Source: Retrieved on 28th October 2021 from http://struggle.ws/africa/wsfother/wsf_belive_98.html
The struggle of the Black working class in South Africa is a struggle
against the slave bondage of capitalism.
Capitalism is based on the ruling class minority (capitalists, generals,
top officials, professional politicians) exploiting and oppressing the
working class majority (workers of all grades, their families, rank and
file soldiers, the unemployed, and the rural poor). The two classes have
totally different interests- they are locked in class struggle.
Capitalism in South Africa was built through apartheid oppression- land
dispossession, the compound system, migrant labour, the pass laws, and
denial of basic worker and human rights to Black workers.
Apartheid was defeated by workers struggle. But the legacy of apartheid
lives on. The elections of 1994 did not remove the cause of apartheid
oppression, which is capitalist exploitation. The struggle must continue
against both capitalism and racism: one enemy, one fight!
Only workers revolution can end the nightmare of racism and capitalism,
creating freedom and equality for all. Only the workers and the poor can
create a free society because only they have the organisational power,
will, numbers and class interest in overthrowing this system. We oppose
alliances with any section of the bosses.
We oppose all oppression: racism, sexism, imperialism, environmental
destruction, discrimination against gays and lesbians. We are for real
equality for all. Only the workers revolution can end all oppression;
only the fight against oppression and for working class power can unite
the workers. Oppression and discrimination are against the interests of
workers. They divide and weaken the struggle.
Workers freedom cannot come through parliament or the seizure of State
power. The State (judiciary, government bureaucracy, police force,
parliament etc.) is a tool of capitalism and the bosses. The use of the
State can only lead to corruption, defeat or dictatorship over the
workers movement. The economic disaster and political tyranny of the
Marxist-led Soviet Union shows this clearly.
Socialism must come from below- from mass action.
The trade unions must take over the land and the factories and put them
under direct workers control in a revolutionary general strike based on
the occupation of workplaces.
To be successful the revolution must be based on workers movement united
across colour, sex, and national lines. Capitalism is international, and
therefore the revolution must be spread internationally by the workers.
The revolutionary general strike will establish a non-racial
international working-class democracy: libertarian socialism. This will
be based on federations of grassroots workplace and community councils,
and defended by a workers army.
We want a society without bosses, rulers and oppressors of any
description. We want a democratic economy under the direct control of
the working class. We are anti-authoritarian: the only limit on
individual freedom should be that it does not remove the freedom of
others.
The WSF does not stand in elections or aim to take State power. The WSF
is not a trade union. The WSF is a political organisation for militants
who aim to encourage the self-activity and political consciousness of
the mass of the people — the workers and the poor — so that they can
make the revolution for themselves. Our role is to promote the struggle,
but in the end, only the workers can free the workers!
Tomorrow is built today. We support all struggles against oppression. We
support the progressive student movement We support existing trade
unions, but fight for workers control, a revolutionary programme, and
the formation of “One Big Union”.
We proudly stand in the mass tradition of libertarian socialism
(anarcho-syndicalism). Our movement has historically attracted millions
world wide, because it serves the needs of the workers and the poor, not
the power-seekers and exploiters. Today it is growing across the globe.
If you agree- JOIN the WSF.