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What really happened at the Lonmin Mine?
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Saturday August 25, 2012 07:20 by Adrian Boutureira - St Helena Free Press News Service breadnroses005 at gmail dot com
The Story Beneath the Surface, Part I The story that needs to be told about the massacre at the Lonmin mine in South Africa, will not come from the capitalist mainstream media, nor be told by the South African government. The story must come from those of us who wont allow for the critical questions behind the death of so many compañeros go unanswered. This is but a humble contribution towards that aim. The telling of the story: Part I |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2History has showed we seem to learn nothing from the past. The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home, "representing the charge of the Manchester Yeomanry on the unarmed populace in St. Peter's Fields, Manchester. The yeomanry are depicted as butchers armed with axes reeking with the blood of the victims."[1]
The text reads: "Down with 'em! Chop em down my brave boys: give them no quarter they want to take our Beef & Pudding from us! ---- & remember the more you kill the less poor rates you'll have to pay so go at it Lads show your courage & your Loyalty"
It happened in Pennsylvania and plenty of other places. Nothing will change as we are now trained in the "ME " society. The public are more interested in the cavortings of Princes to be bothered about the other guy.If you stand up for the other chap you will soon have a plug put in your mouth by the tools of big buisnes that contronl communications etc.
There will be the usual inquiries conducted by the same mentality that derive their power by being compliant beans to the system status quo. Nothing will change as nobody is bothered. remember the saying about the 4 people "Nobody ,Somebody, Anybody and Everybody"
Condolences to the familys of the miners who were murdered by the tools of the big business.
Colour bar and colour domination was at the heart of apartheid, and this immoral ideology was opposed actively in South Africa and other countries between 1948 and 1994. But, as history repeats itself again and again, yesterday's liberators can become today's tyrants. Apartheid ideology backed colour and class domination. Whether a country has a rainbow flag, a green flag, a red banner flag or a union jack flag doesn't matter if organised labour is suppressed and shot down while trying to better its pay and working conditions.
In rainbow South Africa the multiracial state is not neutral. The power of organised capital is much more equal than the power of organised labour. Bear that fact in mind when discussing the evils of apartheid and the evils of postapartheid.