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Title: Fight the bosses Author: Workers’ Solidarity Federation Date: 1997 Language: en Topics: general strike, South Africa, 1990s Source: Retrieved on 29th October 2021 from http://struggle.ws/africa/wsfother/strike_97.html
We workers must support the struggle organised by COSATU against the
bosses. Only mass action will make Mr FAT CAT boss listen to our
demands. In the end, socialism remains the only road. The workers
solution is revolutionary industrial unionism- implement workers control
over the land and factories through trade union action.
COSATU calls for double pay for Sunday work, six months paid maternity
leave, four months of which must be paid, a 40 hour work week, and an
end to workplace apartheid. COSATU calls for reconstruction and
development.
The BOSSES call for lower pay, less paid maternity leave, low wages,
less safety regulations, and other forms of so-called “flexibility”. The
bosses stand for exploitation and continued poverty amongst Black
workers.
The bosses are unwilling to compromise. They want to be “internationally
competitive”: to pay low wages and enforce bad safety conditions so they
can keep up their profits. Only mass action can force them back.
To win we our powerful industrial unions- democratically controlled by
the workers. To win, we need to fight in the spirit of no compromise.
In this fight we cannot rely on the government and politicians. They
have replaced the RDP with the so-called GEAR programme. GEAR calls for
privatisation, more tax on workers, cuts in social spending, wage
restraint, and less regulations on the bosses. GEAR is a bosses
programme.
Freedom will never come through parliament. Freedom can only come
through the trade unions taking over the land and factories in a
socialist revolution. This is revolutionary industrial unionism.
This leaflet was produced by Workers Solidarity Federation,
a socialist/ anarcho-syndicalist political organisation for militant
workers and youth.
There can be no peace in society while the bosses have all the good
things of life, while millions of workers suffer and starve. This system
of capitalist oppression can only end when the workers unite in militant
trade unions to take the factories and land from the bosses, and run
them for the good of all.
Only in this way can we end capitalist exploitation and the legacy of
apartheid oppression.
Phantsi ngecapitalism, phambili basabenzi, forward to revolutionary
industrioal unionism.