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South African Worker Writes:

“Socialism is Capitalism”

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I’m challenging the South African Communist Party (SACP) to change its political name because they are not communist.  They are sleeping with one blanket with the nationalists. The leader of SACP, Blade Nzimande, owns a million-dollar car and they endorse shop stewards to be paid thirty times more than ordinary workers. 
NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) General Secretary Frans Baleni earns US$160 000 per year. In 2011, workers went on strike.  I was shocked by this fake lefty. Mr. Baleni recently advised the bosses of Karee mine to fire 9000 workers.  That is why workers quit NUM and joined AMCU (Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union). 
SACP negotiates with bosses on behalf of workers.  They are selling out workers to exchange their labour power for slave wages.  It’s shocking.  How come you negotiate to keep exploitation of workers? 
All I’m saying is that SACP are socialists.  Socialism is capitalism.  No doubt they allowed the brutal capitalism to rule. 
We fight with police.  We need soldiers, who are part of the working class.  They exploit them the same as industrial workers.  The contradictions are growing to the maximum level.  All these workers are related somewhere, somehow.  Instead of working together the bosses are fuelling anger between them.
Chris Hani once said that you can’t negotiate with the capitalists because money is going to be involved in those negotiations. And they killed him. They are hiding the real contradiction from the masses, camouflaging the problem by using racism.  They are black capitalists like white capitalists. 
Lonmin is the most exploitative company in South Africa. Former World Bank chairman Jim Yong Kim said Lonmin is the future. Only international communist revolution can end this horror without end.  Last year I joined the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP).  It is the only Party that fights for communism, not nationalism or socialism. 

¡A LUTA CONTINUA!

—A comrade

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