Socialist Democracy, March-April 2009

While the central trade union, ZTUC, vaguely condemned MDC collaboration with Mugabe, it has also tacitly given a nod to the power-sharing in a defeatist manner without building a working class alternative. This placed enormous tasks before the Zimbabwean working class activists to start to build a mass working poor political alternative. Of course, there may be some illusions in the power sharing for now, but political development will further show to the mass of people, the frauds of Mugabe’s anti-imperialist propaganda and MDC fake commitment to people’s welfare. The coming period will provide the working mass of people of Zimbabwe and indeed Africa (where neo-liberal capitalist has held sway) with the necessary lessons needed to build a political alternative for socialist-oriented revolution.