Red is the Colour

On Wednesday January 25th at 16h45 (the YCL must discuss the time of theses classes) in the SATAWU office, 13th floor, Old Mutual Building, 29 Kerk Street, between Loveday and Harrison, The YCL Johannesburg Central Branch will hold its first political education session of 2006. The main discussion document “Target - Fifty Thousand Cadres in Five Years” was distributed on Sunday. As additional reading, here below is a link to Liu Shaoqi’s “How to be a good communist”. On November 16th, 2005, the Communist University distributed, at his own request, Mazibuko Jara’s “What colour is our flag? Red or JZ? - A critique of the SACP approach on the JZ matter”. Below is a response to that document by YCL National Chairperson David Masondo. Cde Jara is the Deputy National Secretary of the YCL. Never let it be said that there is no more open controversy in the ranks of the Communists! (As there was in the days of Lenin, Luxemburg and Trotsky.) The Mail and Guardian has taken the trouble to investigate the new situation in Swaziland in some detail. See linked article. The SACP, in line with its longstanding campaigns, has come out in support of the farmworker recently assaulted near Ventersdorp; and the YCL takes a positive attitude to the election. Links Response to Mazibuko Jara, David Masondo, Bottom Line (4716 words) Swaziland tense after opposition arrests, M and G (775 words) SACP statement on the assault of a farmworker (393 words) YCL calls on all youth to take part in elections (260 words) 1939, Liu Shaoqi, How to be a good Communist, C1 (2545 words)