CU in Cuba!

Dear Comrades, I've fortunately arrived alive in Cuba. I attended plenary this morning. I must say people are nice here. I'll only be coming back next week Thursday and hope to join Friday's session at the Communist University where I'll present a report. Thereafer I’ll be ploughing back to the community as per my undertaking. I’ll also be reporting to the SACP and YCL in Joburg Central. My gratitude to you comrades for your help in every respect. Yours for an equitable world order, Thando Tshangela It is a great joy for the Communist University to know that we have a representative in Cuba at this moment. It is almost unbelievable. Comrade Thando worked harder than anybody for this and he is a wonderful example of what can be achieved. This evening’s CU session will be on “Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism and Vedic science” by Meera Nanda. It will be at 17h00 in the Women’s Jail, 1 Kotze Street, Constitution Hill. Lulama Nare will be opening for us. Next week we must gather in force to welcome back our hero comrade Thando! We will have enough to talk about. To prepare, read the remarkable programme of Marx in the 21st Century, the name of the historic conference in Cuba that Thando is attending. See link. Umsebenzi Online is a day late in the CU distribution, although it was up on our home page yesterday for those who look there. Apologies to anyone who may have been expecting it to arrive yesterday by e-mail from the CU. The reason was overexcitement concerning Bolivia, Venezuela and Cuba (scroll down to “TCP Better Than WTO”). In the new Umsebenzi Online, SACP GS Blade Nzimande deals with lessons of May Day and more especially with the revelation of the Steyn report as against recent back-tracking by old regime elements. See link. Meanwhile, in the latest twist in the Suttner saga, or perhaps that’s “Suttner Affair”, SACP spokesperson Malesela Maleka points out in the Business Day (where Raymond Suttner’s squib first appeared) that the SACP is a party of the working class and “not some kind of commission for conciliation and mediation”. Viva the revolutionaries, Viva! See link. Meanwhile the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust is having a huge Maskandi bash on Sunday May 7, 2006 at the Jabulani Amphitheatre in Soweto from 09h00 to 18h00, with no less than 14 acts, and the main guest speaker will be ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma. See linked notice. CSVR is holding a public meeting on Zimbabwe on the 17th May at 10h00 in the Devonshire Hotel, Braamfontein. See linked document for speakers and agenda. From Ibrahim Steyn, we have a strong support expressed by the Community Constituency in NEDLAC for the position taken by COSATU against the WTO and the NAMA. See the linked document. James Tweedie reports that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will be in London on 15-16 May. A meeting between Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia, Nestor Kirchner of Argentina, Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, and Chavez took place yesterday in Argentina. Click on these links: Umsebenzi Online, Vol 5, No. 55, 03 May 2006, May Day and Steyn Report (1577 words) Rant misrepresents SACP, Malesela Maleka, Business Day (376 words) Fundraising concert in aid of Jacob Zuma (Notice) CSVR Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum public meeting (Notice) No to NAMA, NEDLAC Community Constituency (486 words) Karl Marx CXXI Cuba Event May 3 to 6, 2006 (1471 words)