Battle Lines

The Communist University gathers tonight at the Women’s Jail, 1 Kotze Street, Braamfontein, at 17h00 to debate “Dialectical Materialism” (using John Hoffman’s “Dialego” chapter “What is Dialectical Materialism?”) versus the critique of this formulation which claims that it is a bowdlerisation or vulgarisation of Karl Marx’s work promoted by Kautsky, Plekhanov and Stalin after Marx’s death (using Cyril Smith’s “How the Marxists Buried Marx”). We must practice to defend our arguments when they are pitted against opposing ideas in “real time”. Next week on July 21st we will gather again to discuss Frederick Engels’ “Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” (see linked text below). SACCAWU is the main retail workers’ union in South Africa. It is affiliated to COSATU. It is shaping for a dispute with Shoprite Checkers, one of our biggest retail chains. See link below. Sean Muller is a young South African writer who had a thorough, concise and highly lucid piece published yesterday in the Business Day, on South African transport. He already and explicitly anticipates the impact of the SACP ’s forthcoming Red October campaign. See the link below. The USA is plotting aggression against Cuba and possibly at the same time, Venezuela. See the two different linked articles below, both from US on-line publications. Mr. Danger is at it again. Click on these links: Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Engels, 1884 (8306 words) SACCAWU battle lines drawn with Shoprite Checkers (702 words) Revolution of wheeled variety needed, Sean Muller, Business Day (844 words) The sinister intent and new measures of the Bush Plan against Cuba (1948 words) Washington Plots Regime Change, Pertierra, Counterpunch (1507 words)