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-----Original Message----- From: Khaya Xaba <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:14:27 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] YCLSA press statement on the death of Margaret Thatcher YCLSA Press Statement April 9, 2013 YCLSA press statement on the death of Margaret Thatcher The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] has noted the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As tributes stream in from around the world including from the United States who said : “The world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty”, we feel that we must set the record straight. Thatcher’s policies that made her famous and the darling of private capital the world over were privatisation, liberalising the market, greed and inequality. To glorify ‘Thatcherism’ is to view the assault on the working class as a noble goal. She was determined to keep money in the hands of the rich at the expense of the poor with her infamous “poll tax” and her insistence on scrapping free milk for school children. As South Africans, we were on the receiving end of her brutal foreign policy in which she refused to implement sanctions against South Africa and thus disable the apartheid regime. She viewed the African National Congress (ANC) as terrorists and sought at all times to ensure the continuity of white minority rule at the expense of black lives. As evidenced by her friendship with the ruthless dictator, Augusto Pinochet, the suppression of Irish resistance and her invasion of the Falklands, she viewed human rights and franchise as trifling matters. We send our condolences to her many victims. The working class of Britain, still suffering from her aggressive privatisation, South Africans who could have been freed of apartheid tyranny almost a decade earlier, and the working class who remain slaves to capital worldwide. Thatcher famously said: “whoever thinks that the ANC can rule South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo-land”. The ANC is now approaching 20 years of democratic governance with achievements including building a stronger African continent and Global South. Her lauded free market policies have proven to be in crisis the world over with banks and corporations requiring state assistance to function. The greatest legacy Thatcher has left us is the proof that despite all odds, the working class, majority will always triumph. Issued by YCLSA Head Office For more information contact: Khaya Xaba YCLSA National Spokesperson Cell: 071 115 4619 Sent from my iPhone -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
