Mobilisations

Today at 11h00 at the Sunnyside Park Hotel, Comrades Oupa Bodibe (head of NALEDI) and Ashwin Desai (of CCS) will debate “State Power” under the auspices of the Chris Hani Institute. The SACP has issued a statement on the deaths of 14 teachers, SADTU members, from a single school in a single road accident; and also the deaths of four policemen in the Jeppestown shootout. See linked document below. SACP Deputy GS Jeremy Cronin gave a press conference in Cape Town yesterday. The Star reported his remarks on transport, including road accidents (Cde Cronin is also chairperson of parliament’s transport portfolio committee). News24 reported the same press conference but covered only the political aspects and whether it will be possible for the SACP to have its own candidates and still remain in an alliance with the ANC. Cde Cronin thinks it is not a good idea to try. See two documents linked below. As requested by a comrade by e-mail, the South African Labour Relations Act and Basic Conditions of Employment Act, in their latest amended form, are now archived on the CU web site, as downloadable files (one is a Word file and the other a PDF). See links below. More and related material can be found on the Department of Labour site. The Johannesburg YCL political school is now meeting on Sunday, and not as per the previous schedule. They will be discussing excerpts from “Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution” by V I Lenin. Please refer to the YCL for details of time and venue. Also today, Israeli war machines are advancing into Gaza, as they have been doing for nearly 50 years, to kill and to destroy. The Israeli colonialists came into power in the same year as the Nats in South Africa. Down with colonialism! Click on these links: SACP on SADTU members accident and Jeppestown killing of 4 police (324 words) Fix transport woes, Cronin, Star (390 words) Alliance split would hurt SA, News24 (630 words) Labour Relations Act, Amended, South Africa, 2002 (1019KB Word download) Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Amended, South Africa, 2002 (534KB PDF download) Two Tactics of Social Democracy, Lenin, 1905 (10805 words)