Johnathan Paoli
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has called upon its members not to vote for several parties which it has identified as “right-wing capitalist” with no mercy for the working-class.
Speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday, NUMSA General Secretary Irvin Jim, said in light of the trade union’s membership being confronted with the continuous deepening crisis of socio-economic conditions, it was impossible for NUMSA to remain silent and not to take a political posture on the elections.
Jim said that as a “militant red revolutionary union”, NUMSA had an obligation to serve as political guidance for workers, without deciding for them.
“Because as a union we are very clear that in any class-divided society, the dominant class that oppresses and exploits the working class, reproduces itself in the state and the state in a capitalist mode of production, is nothing but an organ of
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