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FAWU Press Statement, 12 December 2014 NUMSA-initiated Assembly on United Front The President and General Secretary of the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), respectively Attwell Nazo and Katishi Masemola, will be attending and participating at the Assembly on United Front as initiated by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) on the 13-14 December 2014. Both, as they engage and debate, will be guided by the mandated position of the Special FAWU NEC meeting held in March 2014 in Cape Town. In brief, the mandate fully supports, in principle, the setting up of a United Front (UF) but as a platform to take forward the struggles of communities and workers, from a working class perspective, against the State-unleashed neoliberal policy program against and Capital-driven intensified class exploitation of the working class. However, while the UF initiative talks to the COSATU resolutions on the setting up of coalition of civil society formations, we have a concern that NUMSA is independently pursuing with without taking the federation with and, in the middle of the paralysed COSATU, without involvement of other affiliates interested in the implementation of COSATU Resolutions. If indeed the United Front will take a character of a party-political formation, as opposed to a broader front and coalition of civil society formations, FAWU will reserve its rights as it firmly believes that the battle for the soul and direction of the ANC remains the only viable platform available to the working class. The same principles apply on the Movement for Socialism in which the same NEC agreed that this initiative talks to the existing COSATU Resolution of the convening of the Conference of the Left. Again, Movement for Socialism must be a product for this Conference of the Left, in which the South African Communist Party must be part and play a role, in order to take forward the struggle for socialism. The President and the General Secretary of FAWU will articulate those mandated position as we seek to convince NUMSA delegates to the Assembly and the other invited guests of the appropriateness and correctness of FAWU's stances on both initiatives. Issued by: Katishi Masemola, FAWU General Secretary For more information feel free to contact the FAWU General Secretary, Katishi Masemola, at 082 467 2509 -- -- 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/d/optout.
