Cease Fire on the Cities

The first of the links below is yet another statement, for the benefit of anyone who may still be in doubt, that the whole Alliance holds the position of “innocent until proven guilty” in relation to the ANC Deputy President, Jacob Zuma. From ANC Today, Bolivia nationalised its energy resources on worker’s day, May 1st 2006. Now it is going to nationalise the land. A better world is possible! A better world is happening! See link. Not all US intellectuals are corrupted. Mike Davis is a great illuminator of urbanism. The linked article is the second part of two, but contains most of the good material in the article (even the good US writers are given to writing too long). The link to Part 1 is in the document, if you want it, but at least read Part 2. There is nowhere else that you will get this extraordinary but absolutely necessary stuff. Virginia Tilley is another good US intellectual, who happens now to be in Johannesburg (at the Centre for Policy Studies). See the link below for the full, shocking truth about the US/Israeli fraudulent coercion of the Palestinians. James Tweedie sends, for our information, Mayor of London Ken Livingston’s invitation to a rally for Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, when he visits there tomorrow. See link. On Tuesday, May 23rd, very much in line with all of the above, there will be an AGM in Braamfontein of the Ceasefire Campaign. This is South Africa’s actually-existing peace campaign. Let’s build this campaign, comrades, and give it a mass content and presence in the land. What is more important than peace? Our comrade CU delegate to Havana, Thando Tshangela, is believed to be home safe at last. Click on these links: Democratic institutions on a firm footing, ANC Today (593 words) Bolivia targets land for nationalisation, Business Day (279 words) Mike Davis, Green Zones and Slum Cities, Pt 2, Tomdispatch (3540 words) Hamas and Israel's Right to Exist, Tilley, Counterpunch (2253 words) Welcoming President Hugo Chavez To London, Ken Livingstone (Notice) Cease Fire Annual General Meeting 23 May 2006 (Notice)