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In case you didn’t get the message on Tuesday, Umsebenzi is ready in hard copy! The SACP has more copies than expected, and is offering them to sellers at the marginal printing cost - if you pay cash. This means, for example, that if you sell a hundred copies you could make R175 profit for yourself. We are planning a blitz of the Siyanqoba rallies on Sunday. This is a 20-page joint Umsebenzi and Y-Reds edition, cover price R3. For the full offer, click here. Following the resignation of Comrade Bob Mabaso, The next SACP Gauteng Provincial Council (on March 12th) will carry out its constitutional duty to “fill any vacant PEC positions”. The position is expected to be contested by at least two very strong personalities. Communist University will be pleased that both are outstanding Marxian scholars. The contest will above all be a political one. The working class and even the bourgeois media should pay close attention to the debate and the outcome of this important exercise in inner-party democracy. This effective mini-Provincial Congress will be followed in June by the SACP Johannesburg District Congress. There is a Zim picket on Tuesday, February 28th from 12h00, at the Zimbabwe Consulate, Andersen Street, opposite Khotso House, JHB. Presumably that means the back of Khotso House. Download the excellent picket leaflet here. Another excellent letter was in the Business Day yesterday, this time from Cde Malesela Maleka, in response to that paper’s provocative coverage of the Zuma trial (linked) From the City Press, see linked article on Asgisa from the COSATU point of view. Cde Mzala - Revolutionary Intellectual: Northern Cape comrades are organising an event to be addressed by SACP Deputy Secretary Jeremy Cronin. It is on Saturday, February 25th, at the Provincial Legislature, Nobengula Street, Galeshewe, at 10h00 sharp. The Northern Cape comrades have researched and found material from the Late Cde Mzala which will be put up on the Communist University. See link. Ann Crotty continues to expose the living scandal that is SASOL. See link. And (linked) via James Tweedie in London, a strong statement from Venezuela against the second-time-as-farce statements of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Links: SACP offended, Malesela Maleka, Business Day (323 words) Cosatu blasts Asgisa proposals, Irene Louw, City Press (675 words) SACP N Cape PWC on Cde Mzala, Revolutionary Intellectual (791 words) Stop whingeing, market and SASOL, Crotty, B Report (895 words) Workers Reject Imperialist Aggression Against Venezuela (403 words)