[DEBATE] : Re: Security guard strike

[eve and tony hall]

What DO you mean "opportunists like Zuma"! Is he supposed to boycott the 
strike, and wait politely for you pure in heart people to make up your mind? 
The only leading ANC member to show some support - and you attack him?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo Zeilig" <leo.zeilig at hotmail.co.uk>
To: <debate at lists.kabissa.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 2:50 PM
Subject: [DEBATE] : Security guard strike


> Comrades,
> I wonder whether we should engage in a little critical reflection on the
> security guard strike. It was arguably the most significant strike to have
> taken place in the last ten years. Security guards were battling against
> employers who wanted to smash the union. They had the whole world against
> them: who called them by turns greedy, violent and lazy. Each day the 
> strike
> radicalised and each day the left failed to relate to it, and even
> contributed to some of these attacks. There was no intervention in the
> strike, not even a rudimentary petition issued by the country's
> overabundance of left-wing intellectuals and commentators. This left the
> strikers isolated and suspicious of outsiders. The coast was open for
> opportunists like Zuma to capitalize on this isolation by claiming to be 
> the
> strikers friend - on the day he was acquitted Zuma left the court and
> immediately addressed the SATAWU workers. This seems to be a pitiful state
> of affairs, and helped ensure the eventual defeat of the strike. What good
> are we as radicals and socialists unless we take the side of those 
> fighting
> - sometimes desperately - for their rights and dignity?
>
> Leo Zeilig
>
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