It states that VW was asked by Numsa to dismiss the shopstewards from employment. This shows the extent to which the Numsa leadership is prepared to work with big capital against the working class. At the same time, the struggle of the VWSA workers reflects an international trend of workers fighting against the alliance of their union leaders with capitalist governments and the capitalists themselves. Contrary to lies put out by Numsa it is not our policy to promote splits among the working class. For example, the Brasilian model of the trade union federation, CUT, allows workers to be represented at local regional and national levels according to their political tendency and the platform of their tendency.
Leadership is elected based on proportional support that a tendency receives.
The Brasilian model demonstrates a much greater level of tolerance than that which currently exists in Numsa or Cosatu. In Brasil, the siding of the Communist Party with the Dictatorship led to the formation of the Workers Party there. We need to learn from their experience and its shortcomings and continue to fight for the replacement of the leadership that has suppressed the 1993 Numsa resolution for a working class party in South Africa. The question of the leadership of the unions and the formation of a revolutionary working class party is indeed a life and death matter for the working class. WIVL will work with all working class militants to in building a Workers Party that will lead an uncompromising struggle against capitalism.