Workers International Vanguard League (WIVL) has been excluded from =
the
April elections
The cap=
italists
and their parties claim that there is a world economic crisis and they use =
this
to justify mass retrenchments, cuts in social expenditure and a drive to at=
tack
and undermine workers gains that have been won through centuries of struggl=
e.
One of =
the rights
that has long been fought for, has been the right to organise, form politic=
al
parties and to contest elections. Even this right is under threat. All the
parties in parliament sat on their own (without consulting all the register=
ed
parties) and set the deposit for taking part in all provinces and at nation=
al
level at R540 000. WIVL submitted all the requirements, including a li=
st
of 29 candidates from 5 provinces, from urban and rural areas. All the
Electoral Commission (IEC) was interested in, was if we had the deposit. The
IEC, set up by the ANC Popular front government, acted on behalf of the
monopoly capitalists to exclude working class organizations such as us. Many
capitalist countries simply require a list of signatures to show some suppo=
rt,
in order to take part in elections. Such a simple provision is denied to the
working class here.
The rul=
e by a
section of the black middle- and capitalist class. shows in many ways,
including the limitation of the right to participation in political activit=
y, the
collapse of the democratic gains of the working class, and at the same time,
the consolidation of the dictatorship of the monopoly capitalists. The slave
capitalist relations pre-1994 were maintained by the Afrikaner National Par=
ty,
in part by smashing and banning political opposition. Today the Africanist
National party (read the ANC) bans their real opposition by financial
exclusion. The 2 methods are but different sides of the same coin. The rise=
in
working class resistance to the open plunder by imperialism which has been
facilitated by the Popular Front multi-class alliance of the ANC-SACP-Cosat=
u,
will soon be met by the jackboot of the state. (activists are already
increasingly facing a crackdown by the state and groups of thugs- be they r=
ed
ants or similar groups).
The only way forward for the working class is to organise independen=
tly
of the capitalists and of parliament; this means workers must intensify eff=
orts
to replace the Cosatu leadership with independent working class fighters;
workers should compel the breaking of Cosatu from the capitalist ANC and SA=
CP;
we must build workers’ defence committees to defend ourselves from the
ongoing attacks by the capitalist class and their agents. Now, more than ev=
er,
we need to build an independent revolutionary working class party. We invite
working class fighters and activists to join us in the fight against the wo=
rld
system of capitalism-imperialism
Issued 7.03.09 Workers
International Vanguard League, 1st Floor, Community House, 41
Salt River rd, Salt River, 7925 ph 021 4476777 email workersinternational@gmail.c=
om
website www.workersinte=
rnational.org.za
=
Gauteng: ph 0781297797; =
<=
st1:State
w:st=3D"on">Western Cape: ph 0822020617;