Silver Lining

The Business Day editorial in its anonymous main editorial column yesterday was moved to say: “the SACP document is more than worthy of public debate” and more. See link below. ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma addressed the Congress of the National Union of Mineworkers in Midrand yesterday. See the link below for his speech as reported by News24. Our YCL comrade Castro Ngobese (this is his debut on the CU) has been kind enough to let us have his input to a “post Jacob Zuma rape trial seminar” in Johannesburg, written in his nice fresh style. See below. Meanwhile our illustrious Swazi comrade Bongani Masuku has written another tour de force about the structure of imperialism in southern Africa. See link below. Ann Crotty is the CU’s favourite bourgeois journalist. She is also well liked by her colleagues. They gave her an award recently. Her article in yesterday’s Business Report on Liberty Holdings, “Theatre of the absurd”, is well up to her best witty form. Note that a “pyramid” structure is one where a minority holding, housed in a company that does nothing but collect dividends, is rigged to control a much larger amount of ordinary shareholders’ capital. Such monopoly-finance structures are supposed to be banned but somehow some of the biggest ones (in a similar manner to Dr Goebbels’ lies) have managed to survive. Read on (see link below). Communist University students can also have fun, can’t they? See “Stalin vs. Hitler” (link provided by James Tweedie). According to AND: “Media reports say that Mark Thatcher - the wealthy son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher - has "links" with Omega Security Company whose employees have been detained on suspicion of plotting to destabalise the country” (the Democratic Republic of Congo). It makes a change from “links with Al Qaeda”. The boot is on the other foot. Thatcher is only walking free because he was given a deal by the NPA/Scorpions. Otherwise he was going to go down for a long time on account of his links with the coup plot in Equatorial Guinea. Click on these links: Silver Lining, editorial on SACP discussion document, Business Day (633 words) ANC not in crisis, Zuma at NUM 12th Congress, News24 (550 words) YCL input post Jacob Zuma rape trial, Castro Ngobese (1700 words) Global economy, apartheid plan, and Swazi economy, Masuku (6954 words) Theatre of the absurd, Liberty Holdings, Ann Crotty, Business Report (947 words)