Join The Palestine Solidarity Campaign

It is shocking when police fire upon a demonstration in a legal strike and arrest 200 people. Yet somehow people regard this as normal in South Africa these days (see link below) Jews are supposed to be a light held up for the world, which is a wonderful thought, like the idea of “l’Ouverture” (Toussaint), or “Mwalimu” (Nyerere), meaning respectively the opener and the teacher. The Jews were all supposed to try to be like this: moral leaders for the world. In the colonial state of Israel, Jews have become monsters. Their killing has no limit. If “Western” public opinion should trouble them, they give the Palestinians a little food, the better to be able to kill them later on. Western opinion allows killing, but pictures of starvation are unacceptable. See the linked article. It cannot be normal or acceptable for such things to happen whether here or in China, for example. See the ITGLWF report linked below or go to their web site for reports from Nicaragua and other places. Of course comparisons are generally odious. None of this is acceptable, whether here in South Africa or anywhere. But right now the Israeli aggression is the worst thing happening. If you go to the web site of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign you can actually join an organisation which is doing something political about what is happening. The SACP is sending a delegation to China – see the link below for details of this significant exchange. The Harold Wolpe Seminars are back at last. The next one is on August 2nd. The reformist political trajectory of this programme has not changed, however. Developmentalism is first and foremost a denial of class struggle. As such it is obscurantist. Class struggle is still, as it has always been, the motor of history. There is no development without winners and losers. The question is always, who are the losers, and who the winners? Professor Peter Evans wants the winners to be a priestly caste of elite “Castalian” bureaucrats. Of course this is an impossible outcome and its proposal will only serve the imperial monopoly finance bourgeoisie. Developmentalism is nothing more than anti-communism. It is a weapon against the working class. For the memory of the late Harold Wolpe, comrades should flock in numbers to oppose this ideological assault in his name. See the notice linked below. Click on these links: COSATU and CEPPWAWU condemn police action against demo (602 words) Israelis feed so as to continue to kill, Tanya Reinhart, Counterpunch (1208 words) SACP high level 85th Anniversary delegation to China (276 words) ITGLWF concern with factory in Guangdong, China (368 words) 17h15 060802, Con Hill, Developmental State, Wolpe Seminar (Notice)