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Marikana, the Labour Movement and the South African Situation | Socialist Organizer

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COSATU is going to go to its congress. Unlike in past congresses, it will not be a celebratory congress but one which will be about soul searching and to find out how so many things could have gone wrong, also why is it nothing was done to avert the disaster or change the fortune for the better. South Africa, after the callous massacre in Marikana, is in a crisis, a crisis of such enormous proportion that many people believe that fortunes of the South African "miracle' have forever changed. We entered a space where the government will not hesitate to use lethal force on those who disagrees with it.

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Born in the USA, living in Canada since 1968, I'm a Vietnam war resister, a revolutionary democratic socialist partisan of the Fourth International reproclaimed in 1993, a member of Canada's New Democratic Party, on the executive committee of (more...)

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