Abstract
South Africa's labour movement has unprecedented access to state power in Pretoria via SA Communist Party ministers and a new ministerial post devoted to economic development held by a labour leader. But this power comes with structural constraints, no matter the courage of leaders. The economic collapse suffered since 2008 is only the latest stage in an unfolding crisis of accumulation which South African capital has only shaken since the 1970s through escaping the country's shores, through financialisation, and through imposition of neoliberal policies on the society. But these have not generated a sustainable growth path, but instead, yet more social tensions. How labour marshals and channels these tensions is the crucial test of the coming period.
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