Speaking at a media conference in Johannesburg, Jim said Numsa would align itself with “a crystallised” political organisation.  He said the union’s objective is to build “a mass based, democratically controlled, Marxist-Leninist workers’ party which will destroy the whole capitalist system and replace it with a socialist society in which the country’s wealth is owned, controlled and managed democratically by the majority of the people”.

Read the report by Siseko Njobeni on fin24 first published yesterday: Numsa still on track for new workers’ party – Jim