The Workers Organisation for (WOSA) held its Third National Conference from April 9 in Cape Town. The conference was opened by an official representative of the Workers' Party of Brazil (PT), Beti Burigo as well as WOSA's chairperson Neville Alexander. Some 800 people were present at the opening. Executive WORLD NEWS members from the ANC, AZAPO, SACP and many trade unions read out messages of support. Key resolutions around the National Situation stressed the following: On violence The "deracialisation' of the apartheid-capitalist system will not take place peacefully. More blood has Rowed in South Africa during this so-called transition to democracy than in almost any other period of our history.
WOSA condemned the continued use of mercenaries, thirdforce action and hit squads on the part of right wing and other ruling-class forces.
this violence against the op pressco has incroco uic sys® tematic elimination of popular community, labour and political Icaders.
It is a war against the urban and rural poor by the ruling class. The aim is to ensure the weakening of mass organisations. An interim period of severe repression could occur to manage the transition from overtly racist rule to a limited bourgeois democratic order.
WOSA therefore calls on all affecied and vulnerable communities to form disciplined democratically organised and accountable self-defence units controlled by the community as a whole and not by any particular political organisation. On the organised working class Attempts are being made to entrap the organised working class into social contracts in order to rescue capitalism from its crisis.
This will be done at the expense of the vast majority of our unions to be independent of the state, employers and political parties. WOSA supports and encourages the organised workers struggle for a living wage, for affordable housing, for a moratorium on retrenchments, against VAT, against wage cuts and against limitations on strike activity. On negotiations, Constituent Assembly and the есопоту WOSA reaffirmed its view that negotiations for power sharing is a ruling class strategy for the co-option of the black middle class.
The political reform programme of the regime has as its goal the replacement of apartheid-capitalism with new forms of capitalist accumulation Power sharing or a Government of National Unity which represents different class forces will not be able to resolve the many social and oconomic problems facing the working class.
The majority of our population will still be imprisoned in the shackles of poverty, unemployment and inflation, bearing the brunt of the social crisis in education, health and housing until such time as the working class approacs tac com manding heights of the econoMin the incrim we will continue to assist the struggle for reforms which bring temporary relief to the working class and cally elected Constituent AsSpecifically. WOSA comthe buncing of democratic, independent organs of workers' power such as civics, trade unions, PTSAs and other mass organisations. On elections The significance of the possible general elections in 1994 does not lie in what can be achieved by the vote. In many ways, the deals between the ANC and the NP will limit the power of those who gain a majority in the clections.
Full majority rule will not be achieved. More importantly, the fact that the economic power of the white minority. trated in the big mononoly corporations is prosected by these ited political power won in the elections will be useless in satisfying the demands of exclose to scenic Snowdonia. Ireland, Nationalism and Culture. ACCOMMODATION is in single rooms and breakfast and lunch are provided. COST £95 waged / £35 unwaged don N4 2UU sense of deep dismay by all delegates. The conference immediately tardly assassination and sent a delegation and messages of condolence to the family of Cde Hani and the SACP. Cde Hani's murder merely strengthens our resolve to fight On unity The WOSA Conference sent out a call to all socialists to realise the urgency of the hour by putting aside differences in order to establish as soon as possible a Left Block of organisations and individuals rooted in the mass organisations of the working class. such an intuate must be capable of generating a mass socialist movement toward the possible creation of a mass democratic workers' party. The 3rd Socialist Outlook Sat August 28 - Fri September 3 TAKE A STEP back from the class struggle, world capitalist crisis, the collapse of Stalinism, meetings, pickets and demonstrations. Enjoy six days of education and debate THEMES: Women's Liberation, Europe, Further details from: Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, LonNU SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 42 May 15, 1993. Page 13