“NUMSA says we are not a political party,” said Jim. “But we will be a catalyst for the organization of a united front, to link shop-floor struggles with community struggles. In his New York speech — peppered with Marxist aphorisms — Jim explained why he felt a new party was necessary. By toppling the apartheid system, the ANC and its allies were successful in extending formal political rights to the country’s black population. However, economic inequality not only persists, he said, but seems to have increased since the fall of apartheid in 1994, according to the measure of inequality known as the Gini coefficient. Jim lays much of the blame at the feet of the ANC, which has adopted an economic approach known as Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR ). To Jim, the GEAR strategy — with its reliance on tamping down deficits and attracting foreign investment — is tantamount to an embrace of globalization and neoliberalism... america.aljazeera/articles/2015/1/11/south-african-laborleadermakesappealtoamericanunions.html
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