We condemn Cosatu eladers call for 'labour peace'

We condemn Cosatu leaders call for 'labour peace' during the world cup; this is particularly worrying becuase of the huge transnet workers strike curently underway and becuase the workers of metrorail are due to strike on monday, several other workers have also deadlocked on the mines as well; the call by Cosatu leaders now exposes what we have suspected for some time,namely that the cosatu leaders want workers to postpone their struggles with the capitalist class to allow the imperialists to openly plunder us all, without any resistance. This means that the strikers will be abandoned to fight in their own corners and thus weaken the resistance to the ongoing imperialist attacks on the masses. The claim by Cosatu leaders to have persuaded Fifa to adopt 'proudly SA' agenda is a whitewash of reality: firstly the monopolies in SA are controlled by imperialism- there is no such thing as an industry that is really 'South African'. The joint approach by Cosatu leaders with the so-called manufacturing sector is another fake policy of the SACP-Cosatu leaders, as if there are progressive manufacturing imperialists as opposed to other imperialists- all manufacture of any note in SA is controlled by the imperialist banks. Imperialism as a whole have retrenched over 170 000 workers in the first quarter of this year (in addition to the 1 million of last year)- the capitalists have not laid down their weapons for the world cup but are accelerating the attacks on the working class.

Cosatu leaders have already had an unstated policy of industrial 'peace' by allowing years of high food and petrol prices, years of high house prices, years of massive retrenchments and now the electricity price increase, without even an attempt at resistance. They have proven that they are the imperialists best friend- they must go. We call for workers to mobilise for the removal of all pro-boss, all pro-imperialist leaders from Cosatu.

We condemn the call by Cosatu leaders for a devaluation of the currency to R10.50. This is nothing but a cut in real terms of the wages by over 30%; all food and otr prices are set in dollar terms and thus all the imperialist gangsters that control the means of production will just hike their prices. For those with short memories we remind them of 2001 when the Rand devalued to R13 to the dollar- not a single job was created; in fact the food gangsters like Pick 'n Pay, hiked food prices and when the Rand returned to lower levels, they did not drop any prices.

The best friends of the imperialists today in SA, are the Cosatu and Sacp leaders. It is time for the working class to break with the capitalist ANC and SACP; break with the capitallists! Now is the time for working class independence! we call for the immediate convening of a workers summit of delegates from all workplaces, delegates from the unemployed, from the rank and file soldiers- forward to a general strike against the electricity increases, (and other attacks by imperialism, such as high food and transport prices, against lack of services, lack of housing), before the final game of the world cup is played.

We note also that the imperialist gangster  and coup-master Obama, plans to visit the opening of the world cup and parts of the games being played- we call for mass protests against his presence (down with the coups in Honduras and Haiti, down with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; down with the plunder of the Chinese working class, down with the rape of the masses in DRC, Sudan and Rwanda; down with the plunder of Greece; down with the genocidists of Palestinians)- this agent of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase is not welcome here!