ANC Throws Off Its Mask! Workers Murdered!
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feature Monday August 20, 2012 21:17 by ZACF/ TAC/ IWAC zacf at riseup dot net
South African anarchist statement on the Marikana Massacre
Joint statement on the Marikana Massacre issued by the Tokologo Anarchist Collective, Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front and Inkululeko Wits Anarchist Collective.
The Constitution promises political rights and
equality. It is quite clear that the bosses and
politicians do exactly as they wish. They walk on the
faces of the people. This is shown by the police
killings of strikers at Lonmin’s Marikana mine.
WSA Statement on Marikana Massacre
ANC THROWS OFF ITS MASK! WORKERS MURDERED!
Capitalists and politicians guilty! Stop police brutality.
No justice, no peace. No Zuma, no Malema, no LONMIN!
The Constitution promises political rights and
equality. It is quite clear that the bosses and
politicians do exactly as they wish. They walk on the
faces of the people. This is shown by the police
killings of strikers at Lonmin’s Marikana mine.
WHOSE RIGHTS?
People! We must face the facts. The ANC
government and the big capitalists run the show.
The system makes the rich and powerful richer and
more powerful.
The workers and the poor suffer. We have no
protection. You work, but you do not survive. Food
prices are going up. ESKOM is going up. We must
pay? With what? But when we struggle, we get
shot.
ANC/ STATE + BOSSES/ CORPORATIONS =
ALLIES
The state uses brutal force against the majority.
We are marching, raising our grievances. This is our
right. We must struggle to live. So, we fight against
all elites: those who control government and those
who control companies (like Lonmin).
But our voices are silenced with bullets.
While we do not agree uncritically with all the
actions of the workers at Marikana, we are always
with the working class and poor against the state and capitalists.
ANCYL = ANC = MARIKANA MASSACRE
The ANC promised to change the system. Instead,
it became part of the system. Complaining against
the National Party’s (NP’s) oppression, the ANC
took office. The NP murdered workers. But now
the ANC murders workers.
The ANCYL has no grounds to pretend to condemn
the police killings (see its Statement 17 August
2012). The ANCYL is part and parcel of the ruling
ANC regime.
Malema and other expelled ANCYL leaders also want
to use these events to get reinstated into the ANC
– to get rich or lie trying. But the ANC’s hands are
dripping with blood.
The past and present ANCYL leaders (like all ANC
leaders) want more money, not more freedom
for the people.
CAPITALISM NO THANKS!
Capitalism is a system of brutality and exploitation,
of suffering. The black, Coloured and Indian
working class suffers from the legacy of apartheid
national oppression and from daily capitalist and
police repression. (And even the white working
class is exploited and oppressed).
COLLECTIVISE, NOT NATIONALISE
ANCYL uses the ANC murders to bang the drum
again for ”the nationalisation of mines and other
strategic sectors of the economy.” But Marikana
shows the true nature of the state/ government,
no matter what party: a bloodthirsty killing
machine for the rich black and white ruling class.
Real workers’ control of the economy does not
mean private corporations (privatisation) or
state corporations (nationalisation). It must mean
real people’s democratic control of the economy
through worker and community committees, serving people’s needs.
POLICE CANNOT BE CHANGED
The role of the police is to repress and silence
the working class and poor. This problem cannot
be fixed by commissions or enquiries – as some
people think. Ask the family of Andries Tatane.
It cannot be changed by elections. Remember:
Sharpeville 1960, Soweto 1976, Uitenhague 1985,
Michael Makhabane in 2000, SAMWU workers in
2009, Andries Tatane in 2011 … Marikana 2012.
At least 25 protestors and strikers were killed from
2000, before Marikana.
PEOPLES POWER NOT ELECTIONS &
PARTIES
Look at Marikana. Elections do not change the
system. Joining the government and becoming a
politician is no solution. Replacing Jacob Zuma
with another ANC leader is no solution. A new
political party – even a “left” or “workers” party
– is no solution. All the political parties are no
solution.
UNIONS: WAKE UP!
The Marikana unions, NUM and AMCU, have fallen
into the trap set by the ruling class politicians and
bosses. They fought each other, instead of fighting
the real enemy. Unity is strength: do not be divided
and ruled. Workers of the world unite! Working
class of all countries and races unite!
End the alliance! COSATU should have no links
with the bloodstained ANC.
ANARCHISM = COUNTER POWER
It is time to replace the capitalist / state system
with Counter Power by the people. This means
that we want workers’/ community control of
the economy, from below. We want democratic
and direct self-management of industry by
the workers in the workplaces; we want self-
government of communities by those living in
them. We want to collectively decide on how
we run our lives. We refuse to live according to
the rules determined by bosses and politicians,
who use the police to shoot us like dogs when we
disobey.
ONE SOLUTION: WORKING
CLASS DEMOCRACY !
WE NEED YOU! DON’T VOTE,
MOBILISE!
IF YOU AGREE WITH THESE IDEAS OR WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT
ANARCHISM:
072 399-0912 OR 079 281-2560 OR zacf@riseup.net
Issued by:\
Tokologo Anarchist Collective
Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
Inkululeko Wits Anarchist Collective
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