Numsa pushes for progressive alliance to replace ANC-DA GNU

Numsa

Cape Town – Numsa has criticised the ANC for aligning with the DA in a government of national unity (GNU), blaming the partnership for worsening poverty, unemployment, and inequality.

The union said it plans to mobilise a united front of trade unions and progressive political parties, including the EFF, SACP, and UDM, to champion a revolutionary agenda for South Africa.

“We are faced with a national crisis of deindustrialisation which is worsening poverty, unemployment and inequality. This is continuing against the backdrop of the catastrophe of the ANC having lost political power for its failure to drive a revolutionary liberation vision, which has resulted in it going into bed with the reactionary DA after it was co-opted by the DA to continue to pursue its failed neoliberal policies in the form of Growth Employment And Redistribution and the National Development Plan,” it said in its New Year statement.

It added: “The task of uniting the working class is simultaneously to assemble all progressive political parties who represent the biggest sections of the working class and mobilise them to lead the country with a revolutionary political agenda. The political parties we are referring to are the MK Party, EFF, SACP, UDM, PAC and ATM. This also includes the ANC, which continues to be the majority party despite the drop in support.”

Numsa also reaffirmed its commitment to international solidarity, calling for an end to conflicts in Sudan, DRC, Palestine, and Lebanon.

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