INSIDE LABOUR | Israel-Palestine: Workers should support resistance by oppressed groups everywhere
Get back to basics. It is a cry regularly heard within a globally weakening trade union movement. And this is usually spelt out as dealing with localised bureaucracy and corruption within the nation-state.
But the true basis of trade unionism is internationalism, summed up in the demand for worker unity. And this past week should have given us all cause to reflect on what that unity will mean and how it has been distorted. With some honourable exceptions, the horror visited on Gaza has caused a muddled response from much of the global trade union movement. Which is scarcely surprising, since the labour movement as a whole has been subsumed by the established system and has fallen prey to the intellectual virus of nationalism, which is, effectively, a cult of group superiority.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.
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