SOUTHERN AFRICA EW! pamphlet on
Socialist Press1981 1981-07-09Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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such as spending far far more on education, and giving wage increases of up to 100%.
Both the bosses and the government have been forced to recognise the living reality of growing workers' organisations, even if they do not give them formal recognition.
Because so many different groups of workers have spontaneously moved into struggle-those with strategic industrial power and those without; those with skills and those without; those with legal rights to live in the urban areas and the migrant workers; the highest paid and the lowest paidthere have inevitably been setbacks as well as gains. ised through the form of bourgeois democracy, workers' living standards and. democratic rights are all under threat and attack.
In South Africa, where, every penny of profits based on cheap labour and massive repressive controls, there is no way that workers' real needs can gradually be granted by a ruling class determined to maintain its profits.
In fact, workers in South Africa, like workers in every other capitalist country, face not the gradual extension of improvements, but more and more vicious attacks.
As the economic crisis deepens in South Africa, and the superficial gold-based boom disappears, the bosses will be more and more des-