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“A trade union is the prime mass organisation of the working class. To fulfill its purpose, it must be as broad as possible and fight to maintain its legal status.

It must attempt, in the first place, to unite, on an industrial basis, all workers (at whatever level of political consciousness) who understand the elementary need to come together and defend and advance their economic conditions,” said the late South African liberation stalwart, Joe Slovo when he properly defined and characterised the role of a trade union from a Marxist-Leninist point.

Slovo’s wise words resonate well with the current labour situation in the country particularly the polarised relationship between Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) affiliates and the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU) as they commemorate Labour Day across the country tomorrow.

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