Facing the Future

The Communist University reconvenes this evening at 17h00 to discuss the chapter from Angela Davis’ Women, Race and Class on the Obsolescence of Housework. We meet at the Women’s Jail, 1 Kotze Street, Constitution Hill. We will need an opening from the floor tonight, because Pamela Masiko is unavoidably out of the country. There will be no CU session next Friday. We will resume on Friday, March 24th at the same time and place to discuss Jennie Bristow’s article on the Future of the Family (linked below). The two articles, about Bush and (humorously but seriously) Blair, are a good example of why bourgeois democracy is such a lie. These two no longer care what they say, because they know that the so-called “opposition” in the USA and in Britain is the same as they are, or worse. The electorate has no choice except to organise, not as “opposition” in the abstract, but instead as a class-conscious force for permanent, qualitative change. See links. The same applies to Zimbabwe. See the linked article, below. Further to yesterday’s material on the new Progressive Womens’ Movement Steering Committee, the Communist University is eager to receive all announcements. Today’s SACP statement stresses that this movement will only be viable if led by the working class. See linked statement below. COSATU’s initiative in calling a broad meeting on March 8th has generated the first concrete programme for the alleviation of the Cape electricity crisis. See linked historic document. This is the kind of action that gives meaning to the phrase “working-class-led”. Cdes Nzimande and Vavi, the General Secretaries of the two great working-class components of the alliance, the SACP and COSATU, will be addressing the political funeral of Cde Dan Mohapi, former COSATU activist and at the time of his death, Deputy Secretary of the SACP in Gauteng Province, as well as an ANC MPL. The Press are invited to this, the first such occasion in the post-election period. See link. Links: What Future for the Family, Bristow, 2004 (5747 words) Bush fantasies exposed again, Blumenthal, Guardian (644 words) I have lost faith in Blair - God, Guardian (707 words) Zimbabwe, ZCTU fully supports ZINASU. press release (435 words) SACP welcomes Progressive Womens Movement (248 words) COSATU leads in Western Cape electricity crisis (979 words) SACP and COSATU General Secretaries to address Mohapi funeral (155 words)