Rumble In The Jungle

Yesterday’s Communist University discussion on Antonio Gramsci’s “Some aspects of the Southern Question” was vigorous and fruitful and all at least agreed that this text is very helpful to South Africans at this time. Thanks go to our Australian comrade Andy Blunden (of Marxists Internet Archive) for introducing us to this particular piece of writing. WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! The CU decided to try to get a bigger venue for next Friday, in COSATU House, to discuss SACP GS Blade Nzimande’s latest Umsebenzi Online article called “What is the National Democratic Revolution?” and to respectfully request the author to open the discussion. In any case the CU will print plenty of copies of the text and publicise the discussion as widely as possible, and supplement it with copies of COSATU’s 9th Congress Resolution on “The NDR and Socialism”. COSATU’s post-Congress ideological offensive finds expression in the bourgeois media with General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi’s article from yesterday’s Mail and Guardian, linked below. SASCO’s Nyiko Floyd Shivambu has written a chapter-length work on the position of his organisation in relation to the NDR (see the link below). This young comrade will be writing book-length works very soon. It is good to see that there are comrades coming through who are not shy to write. We cannot do without such people. COSAS also makes a political intervention in support of its former and founder member Billy Masetlha and against “the voices of darkness that are howling trying to sell our revolution”. See their chairperson Kenny Motshegoa’s statement, linked below. Neva Makgetla no longer works for COSATU. She has moved to the President’s Office, but is still continuing to write her Business Day articles, which we sorely need, as her “personal views only”. See the link below. On the same page as Cde Neva’s article yesterday, there were two long articles by SACP Deputy GS Jeremy Cronin, on public transport in general and taxi recapitalisation in particular. Read both articles in the one document linked below. Quantity is necessary as well as quality. Could it be that comrades are at last beginning to write in sufficient quantity to match the bourgeois ideologues word for word? It’s about time. Click on these links: Media are capitalist triggers, COSATU GS Zwelinzima Vavi, M and G (834 words) SASCO ideological character revisited, Nyiko Floyd Shivambu (4907 words) COSAS Reaffirms support for founder Comrade Billy Masetlha (421 words) Poverty only part of SA unemployment monster, Makgetla, B Day (734 words) Recap or redesign, SA and Bogota, Colombia, Jeremy Cronin, B Day (1991 words)