Umsebenzi and Umsebenzi Online

The new Umsebenzi (linked below as a PDF document) was put up yesterday. It was going to be announced today that the printed version is available. Unfortunately that is not yet the case. Therefore let us make the best use we can of the PDF version. Note that you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free download from the Internet) to read this type of file. Do spread it around please if you can, and as widely as you can. It is a political publication that is produced to be read, not hoarded. The new Umsebenzi Online also came out yesterday. It contains a statement on “The urgency of building a working class-led, progressive women’s movement” from SACP General Secretary Dr Blade Nzimande. If the Communist University has not received the advertised paper on “Transformative Trade Unionism” in time to distribute on Friday for the scheduled discussion the following week, then we can use this one. It is directly in keeping with our current series called “No Woman, No Revolution” (or alternativley “Women, for Women and Men”.) See the link below. Comrade Jacob Zuma has scored his third victory in court in three days. The illegal raids, after he was already charged, of his home and his lawyers’ offices, in a desperate scramble by the NPA/Scorpions to find something to stick on him, have backfired on the goggas. Their claim to have had a “prima facie case” was always a lie and a hollow boast. See linked statements of SACP, YCL and COSATU (three documents in one) The People’s Budget team has put out a statement following the budget. See linked article. Links: 2006-02 Umsebenzi reduced (1496 KB, .pdf) Working class-led women’s movement, Nzimande, Umsebenzi Online (2645 words) SACP, YCL and COSATU on judgment against Scorpions re Zuma (980 words) People’s Budget response to the 2006 Budget (1153 words)