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The Johannesburg Central Branch of the SACP has a Branch General Meeting (BGM) today at 10h00 in the SATAWU offices, 13th floor, Old Mutual Building, 29 Kerk Street, between Harrison and Loveday Streets, Johannesburg. This Communist University distribution brings you political education, both classic and topical. Yesterday it carried several newspaper articles. At other times we sample items from the Internet. Today, all the linked items have been received by the CU directly by e-mail. The first two are important speeches made during the week by SACP GS Blade Nzimande and COSATU GS Zwelinzima Vavi. The third is an invitation to a breakfast at a country club in Woodmead – for which you must pay – with Minister for Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi. The date is May 5th – Karl Marx’s birthday. Wouldn’t it be nice if the Minister were to be greeted at the gate by pickets from Khutsong on that day? The next is a job advertisement that may suit Communist University people very well – research officer for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), a very good organisation. Then from NUMSA (the metalworkers’ union), the inside story of what really happens to the skills levy through the SETA system. The whole thing is a fraud of smoke and mirrors. A very important set of documents prepared by the ICFTU and received via COSATU is archived on the Communist University site in downloadable Word file format. These documents give comprehensive and precise data on the effect of the “Non Agricultural Market Access” (NAMA), which the imperialist countries are trying to foist upon us through the WTO. Lastly, from our weekly hosts at Constitution Hill, notice of an evening event to be chaired by John Matshikiza, featuring Albie Sachs, Sandile Memela and Robert Greig. These are heavyweights in their field. They will talk about Art and Politics from 18h00 on May 8th, in our old home, the Lekgotla Space in the Women’s Jail, 1, Kotze Street, Constitution Hill. Links: SACP GS Dr Blade Nzimande, Address to SOBEC, 18 April 2006 (2373 words) Z Vavi to NEHAWU Public Service Delivery Summit and Campaign (2467 words) Invite, Breakfast with the Minister Mufamadi 07h00 May 5 (Notice) Research Officer for CALS, Job advert (Notice) NUMSA, Soft skills training a real let down, Press Release (467 words) WTO country tables - simulations by ICFTU via COSATU (325 words) Art Talk, Politics Talk, Matshikiza, Sachs, Memela, Greig, Con Hill 18h00 May 8 (Notice)