INGLATERRA - PANFLETO DO SOCIALIST FIGHT 20/10/2012

Victory to the South African Striking Miners!
Enough of the bogus “protecting frontline services”, and “cuts too far too fast”!
TU leaders must fight for needs budgets!TUC: Call an indefinite General Strike!

The striking miners of South Africa are the vanguard of the international proletariat. The brutal and pre-planned massacre of the 34 miners on 16th August is a sharp manifestation of the International crisis of capitalism. Every class conscious workers on the planet has a duty to support and work for the victory of these strikes because they are fighting not just for the future of the South African working class but for all our futures.

The world crisis of capitalism continue to deepen; the Greek and European sovereign debt crisis continues to worsen, several countries in the euro area cannot repay or re-finance their government debt without the assistance of the dreaded troika, the IMF, EU and ECB.

The debts of speculators and banks from property bub-bles were transferred to the national bank balance and so the crisis became a sovereign debt crisis which is now threatening the solvency of whole nations and the survival of the Euro and the European Union itself. This has global consequences, threatening inter-Imperialist rivalries the like of which we saw before WWI and WWII.

This has had dire consequences for the Greek working class and poor, food kitchens have sprung everywhere and real poverty and hunger has begun to reappeared in Europe for the first time since the end of WWII. Greece shows us all our futures under this rotten and crisis-ridden capitalist system.

It is already apparent that a severe housing crisis is developing in Britain, the NHS is being totally privatised and local councils are about to be reduced to being the paymasters of privatised and decimated local services. Tory Barnet council is pioneering US-style total privatisation of services. Chancellor Ed Balls told the Guardian, “The public want to know that we are going to be ruthless and disciplined in how we go about public spending”. And at the Labour Conference, “we cannot make any commitments now that the next Labour government will be able to reverse particular tax rises or spending cuts.”

Following the terrible Marikana Massacre on 16 August on Monday 15 October the crisis in South Africa’s mining sector worsened when talks between the Chamber of Mines and trade unions failed and the strike wave spread. “The situation is grave,” Willie Jacobsz, head of investor relations at Gold Fields told the Financial Times. “All of Gold Fields’ South African mines, with the excep-tion of the developing South Deep, are now engaged in illegal strike action, putting thousands of jobs at risk and increasing the likelihood of major restructuring.”