Notices

The ANC’s Joel Netshitenzhe is rumoured to be the master-mind behind the recent press attacks on COSATU and the SACP. Usually found in Pretoria, he is scheduled to brave the political piranha pool of Johannesburg on September 7th in one of the Harold Wolpe Seminar series on Constitution Hill. Comrades of the Johannesburg Communist University and all class-conscious proletarian forces should be there to confront and contradict the anti-working “legal Marxist” sophistry that is behind the elite anti-working-class campaign of recent months. See the link for full details. Drinks and snacks will be served from 5:15pm on the day. TAC is the Treatment Action Campaign, a very good cause. But surely it is not too much to ask for a bit of tactical foresight from them. Here, linked below, is a “Global Call for Action” issued on Sunday August 20th and supposed to be actioned on Thursday, August 24th – tomorrow. The Communist University got the notice yesterday. The call is for mass protests across South Africa and many other things. There is not enough time. Six weeks’ notice would be more like it for a conception of this size. “GLU” is the Global Labour University, which sounds like a monopolising hegemonic project. It is funded with money from the Germany Bourgeois Republic (GBR). For those prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt, they are offering a Masters course “in the Field of Labour Policies and Globalisation”, to be taken at Wits University in Johannesburg. Scholarships are available. See the linked notice below. Let the Communist University take this opportunity to hail our comrade “organic university”, the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo. This “out of the ground” university is celebrated in the book “Yonk’indawo umzabalazo uiyasvumela: new work from Durban”, which is Volume 1 of the 2006 research reports of the Centre for Civil Society (CCS). The whole book can be downloaded in PDF format (the file is large) using a link from the CCS web site. The University of Abahlali baseMjondolo is described in report No. 42, written by Raj Patel, on page 81. Click on these links: Parties, Labour and State, Netshitenzhe, 17h15, 060907, Con Hill (notice) Treatment Action Campaign Global Call to Action Tomorrow (1316 words) GLU Masters in Labour Policies and Globalisation, Wits (notice)