A Young Movement

The Young Communist League meets this evening at 17h00 in the SATAWU offices, 13th floor, Old Mutual Building, 29 Kerk Street, (between Loveday and Harrison), Johannesburg. They will discuss the March, 1850 Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League, by Karl Marx, in which he mentions “permanent revolution” – meaning a completed revolution and not a half-baked one. Next week at the same time and place the YCL will discuss Joe Slovo’s 1988 “The SA Working Class and the NDR”. See the link below. The YCL held a packed press conference yesterday and touched on various significant and even controversial things. See their own actual statement, linked below. As the CU some time ago suggested it might, the Business Day has moved a long way towards supporting Jacob Zuma for president of the republic. See Business Day political editor Karima Brown’s article below. COSATU’s Gauteng Province marched yesterday to the Australian High Commission in Pretoria and handed over the memorandum linked below, in solidarity with Australian workers facing anti-working-class legislation under the Howard government. Cuba is to be the next chair of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM). The linked document gives a lot of information on the XIVth NAM Summit and the Cuban-style Online Debate around it. See the linked document and find out how to participate. AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST! COSATU’s Political Discussion Document is out and contains plenty of challenging material to respond to (e.g. on “business communism”!). This document is to form the basis for debate at COSATU’s 9th National Congress in September. It will be the subject of a press conference this morning at COSATU House, 1 Leyds Street, Braamfontein at 11h00. You saw it here first! The link is below. Click on these links: SA Working Class & National Democratic Revolution, Slovo, 1988 (14985 words) YCL on SACP, Intelligence, Youth Month, and 1st National Congress (1798 words) Business and President Zuma, Karima Brown, Business Day (819 words) COSATU Gauteng memorandum to Australian High Commission (619 words) Online Debate, Cuba, venue of the XIV NAM Summit (1372 words) COSATU Political Discussion Document for 9th Congress, draft 5 (14712 words)