Never trust the leaders……

Thanks for the link – good article

Just another Israeli eating a happeh meal?

How do you keep from going insane by telling people you are critical of Israel, and then supporting everything Israel does in the comments on the site?

Maybe you are too young to realize it, but holding two completely different ideas in your head will eventually give you a nervous breakdown and make you go crazy.

This story is not about South Africa’s unions. It is not about subversion of unions.

This story is about the Israelis who own the mines refusing to pay a decent wage so they can buy an extra 10 Ferrari’s, after they get back from the government hearing where they asked the government to bail out the company because the economy is tough.

“This applied to leading figures in the African National Congress, such as Cyril Ramaphosa, head of the National Union of Mineworkers, now a corporate multi-millionaire, who negotiated a power-sharing “deal” with the regime of de F.W. Klerk, and Nelson Mandela himself, whose devotion to an “historic compromise” meant that freedom for the majority from poverty and inequity was a freedom too far. This became clear as early as 1985 when a group of South African industrialists led by Gavin Reilly, chairman of the Anglo-American mining company, met prominent ANC officials in Zambia and both sides agreed, in effect, that racial apartheid would be replaced by economic apartheid, known as the “free market”.”

The lesson of the Marikana tragedy is that the new political ruling class will not hesitate to use the power of the state, including the police force and the legal system, to enforce corporate interests at the expense of the working class. This narrow and selfish approach does not bode well for the future.

South Africa at a Crossroads