tional capital, as well as the World Bank and the IMF.
We can therefore expect the focus of the struggle to be the implementation of the RDP. Jobs and houses for the black masses mean encroaching, as Alexander points out, on the interests of capital.
Nothing is more illusory than the delusion that big capital is going to jointly ensure the needs of the masses are met.
That has enormous strategic implications for the left in South Africa, inside and outside of the broad Congress movement.
It means that they trade union movement has to maintain an attitude of political independence, of class independence, from the government and big business.
Although it cannot be launched on the basis of tiny forces, the strategic goal must be to build a mass workers' party which crystallises the fight for an independent political alternative to those leaders who bow before the diktats of capital.
Right wing
Not only is the present government a bourgeois coalition government, but the ANC forces in it, Mandela in particular, represent the most "moderate" right-wing of that movement.
Thus, while for the moCricket journalists are MAR ment the government will undergo a euphoric "honeymoon" period, it is a government whose project of reconciling the needs of the masses and those of capital will inevitably unravel.
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