At Last

The YCL Johannesburg Central Marxist Classes start this afternoon in the SATAWU offices, 13th floor, Old Mutual Building, 29 Kerk Street, between Loveday and Harrison. The discussion will be on how to make 50,000 cadres in five years, and why we need to do so. Next week’s YCL class is scheduled to be on Christopher Caudwell’s 1938 essay “The Concept of Freedom” in which he writes: “I am a Communist because I believe in freedom.” Caudwell was killed fighting the fascists as an International Brigade volunteer in Spain soon after writing this essay. If the story of Tony Leon’s connection with Jack Abramoff and Craig Williamson (through his present assistant Russell Crystal) catches fire, then the DA’s chances of doing well in the local and provincial elections are gone, and the last white reactionary political party of any consequence in Africa could be in the dustbin of history at last. So we can be happy that the Mail and Guardian yesterday put up the article by Claudia Braude headed “A Blast from the past” which was published in the hard-copy edition on Friday January 20th (linked below). I would love to know why it was withheld from the Online M&G for something like four days. The YCL’s jobs march in North West, the SACP’s Cuba statement, and COSATU’s concise but important statement on the employment statistics are also linked. Links: 1938, Caudwell, The Concept of Freedom (9550 words) Blast from the past- Abramoff, Crystal, Leon, Williamson, M&G (1280 words) YCL to march for jobs for Youth and Women (198 words) SACP statement on US provocations against Cuba (365 words) Rise in unemployment shows need for shared growth, COSATU (218 words)