Irish bosses smiling?
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SWAPO traitor unmoved replace South Africa's rule with a "safer" neoimperialist solution.
But as far as Sam Nujoma, the SWAPO leader, concerned, these fears are exaggerated.
Having shown over the last ten days increasing readiness to compromise with the imperialists, Nujoma has confirmed since the invasion his willingness to continue to discuss the Anglo-AmericanSouth African plan.
Arafat Sm the in Brief iles must have crossed faces of capitalists Ireland this week.
While the repressive forces of British imperialism continued to arrest Provisional Sinn Fein members in the north, union leaders in the Republic were procuring settlements from their members with which to gratify their masters.
Aer Lingus management, an 'independent mediator' and officials from the Workers Union of Ireland put forward a paltry 4% pay increase to end the 8 week strike by clerical and administrative staff.
Meanwhile the executive of the Irish Post Office Engineering Union had recommended that its members end their 13 week strike by accepting agreement devised by the government and bureaucrats from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
The terms of this deal on the introduction of new technology are far from clear, but suggest that concessions have been granted by the state employers at the cost of establishing "participation' schemes.
In a postal ballot, the strikers apparently accepted these proposals by a 4-1 majority. IPOEU officials were at pains to protest that the ballot had been conducted without any irregularities, and went on to see the deal as 'the first step to try and get improved relations within the post office'.
The first test of this optimistic prediction will come with the return to work when workers confront the managers who scabbed on the strike with such eagerness and persistence.
Irish capitalists may have breathed a 'tremendous sigh of relief' at the news of these settlements, but they know with growing certainty and dread that their greatest political problems are yet to come as the boom of the Irish economy slumps further into crisis and collapse.