Peter sez:

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analysis of a South African process, reproduced in the West (historically) and in much of the Rest (more recently and rapidly). I can't wait for what is likely to be the more problematic Part 2!

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Leonard Gentle

http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1027.php#continue

...So this article will claim that understanding the changing politics of labour requires us to step outside the confines of the trade unions and not even to take the trade unions as a point of departure, let alone a lens for viewing the developments within the trade unions. Instead it will privilege the changing make-up of the working-class and the changing political consciousness of a new movement of class struggle emerging today and assess events such as the NUMSA moment, the COSATU internal crisis, the emergence of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) and the changing national political landscape against these yardsticks.--