Fault Line

Tomorrow’s session of the Communist University will discuss credit bureau blacklisting and the SACP’s campaign for a credit amnesty. Comrade Nkosiphendule Kolisile, Secretary of SACP Yusuf Dadoo District, YCL National Committee Member and YCL National Working Committee Member, will open the discussion. There should have been a reminder posted here yesterday for the YCL’s Wednesday class. The CU apologises for the omission! The next YCL class will be next Wednesday, 14 June, at 17h00 in the SATAWU office, 13th floor, Old Mutual Building, 29 Kerk Street, between Harrison and Loveday. The topic will be the famous March, 1850 Address given by Karl Marx to the Central Committee of the Communist League (see link below). The latest Umsebenzi Online carries a major (linked below) piece of political writing by SACP GS Dr Blade Nzimande, a contribution to and clarification of the “State Power” discussion initiated by the current Bua Komanisi document. It contains an illuminating passage on the black middle class in general, including the fact that the trading section of the South African middle class has shrunk considerably in recent years (during in the very period when official “SMME” promotion has been at its height). It also includes the full text of yesterday’s Business Day article. The shorter version of this article that was printed is also linked below. The Sowetan is also beginning to take the current debates more seriously and with a deeper understanding of what is at stake. See the linked editorial below. Our Johannesburg Central Branch comrade Hope Mankwana Papo, who is also a Gauteng MPL and a member of the SACP Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee has had a letter published in The Star about the necessity for a revival of mass popular organisation. See the link below. Lastly, from Helena Cobban, the US peace activist and journalist for the Christian Science Monitor, an article on the open reassessment by a senior US military figure of the war in Iraq. See link. Click on these links: Umsebenzi Online, Vol 5, No. 57, 07 June 2006, Class the Fault Line (3987 words) What SACP paper said, and did not say, Business Day (829 words) Masses appeal, Editorial, Sowetan (876 words) Mobilise at local level for stronger state, Hope Papo, The Star (721 words) US field commanders understand their failure, Helena Cobban (737 words) Marx, Address to the Communist League, March 1850 (4120 words)