Y-Reds and Other High Priorities

By my reckoning, the Jacob Zuma rape trial has gone through four judges in one week. It is as if each one has been hit straight to the boundary in a game of legal cricket. The prosecution has also brought new evidence. The late addition of evidence was the prosecution’s tactic in the other Zuma case, also, until a judge ruled that they must stop and fix a trial date. The defence had to ask for a postponement yesterday and the trial is now scheduled to resume, with judge number five, on March 6th. Meanwhile in Braamfontein yesterday there was a lively and well-supported picket of the Swazi consulate in Jorissen Street. Under the banner of the Southern African Solidarity Network (SASN) the next two days of action on Swaziland are as follows: On March 7th, there will be pickets of the Swazi Embassy in Pretoria, the Cape Town Swazi consulate, the Durban Swazi Consulate, the Mpumalanga Swazi Consulate. This is the day when the comrades will be in court for bail hearing. On April 12th there will be Border Blockades at three borders in Mpumalanga: Oshoeck, Mahamba and Matsamo, and one in KZN: Golela. April 12th is the 33 rd anniversary of the bogus "State of Emergency" in Swaziland. In South Africa’s case provocateurs and false-flag operatives working covertly for the state posed as a "third force" and conducted indiscriminate terrorism for years within the country, in the 1980s and 1990s, seeking to blame their atrocities upon the liberation movement. It appears that the Swazi regime is now using the same tactics and even possibly some of the same South African individuals to assist them. We note the employment of white South African lawyers (Dr. Len Els and Anthony Viviers) in the prosecution of the PUDEMO comrades. See the Swazi Newsclips linked below, which are thanks to my friend Comrade Lucky Lukhele, the Great Communicator of the Swaziland Solidarity Network. His e-mail address is lucky.lukhele@gmail.com . It has been difficult to prioritise today. Ron Press’s latest poem deserves a high place. The latest Y-Reds, paper of the YCL, is very high priority. It is a large Adobe .pdf file. Download it if you have the Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free download from the Internet). The SACP’s Umsebenzi will be launched here in this format tomorrow. The tabloid hard-copy versions will also be available from tomorrow at the SACP office in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. They are too large to send as attachments unless requested. The Johannesburg Central YCL Marxist class meets this afternoon at SATAWU offices, 13th Floor, Old Mutual Building, 29 Kerk Street, between Loveday and Harrison. It will discuss Lenin’s, Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion (1900). Next week’s session is on Wednesday February 22nd at the same time and place. It will discuss humanist philosophy. See the linked texts below. Links: Swazi News Clips, Feb 14 (1117 words) Gold, a poem by Ron Press (112 words) 2006-02 Y-Reds reduced (574 KB) Tweedie, Humanist Philosophy, 2005 – 2006 (428 words) Alberti and Spinoza compilation (7150 words) Philosophers, text (2566 words)