Induction, Part 10b
Trade Union Revival
This item represents a
fast-moving situation wherein the South African working class has an objective
need to increase its degree of organisation dramatically.
According to statistics,
there are nearly 14 million people working in SA, but only about 3 million of
these are organised in trade unions, and only about 2.2 million of those are in
COSATU-affiliated unions.
At the same time, there is a
new phenomenon now appearing in South Africa that we call “vigilante trade
unionism”. This phenomenon is described in the attached document, which is an
extract from the Statement of the Central Committee of the South African
Communist Party of 2 June 2013.
The communists are partisans
of the working class. They cannot shirk the task of getting the working class
organised into primary mass democratic organisation. It is a necessary
condition for the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) to exist. The extension
of mass democratic organisation is what the NDR consists of, and the main and
leading part of it is the organisation of workers.
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The above is to
introduce an original reading-text: SACP CC Statement, 2 June 2013.
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