Reality and Fantasy

The Communist University meets this afternoon at 17h00 in the Women’s Jail, 1 Kotze Street, Constitution Hill, to discuss Lenin’s 1900 “Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion”. Next week at the same time and place we will be discussing Karl Marx’s famous 1845 “Theses on Feuerbach” (see the link below). Don’t forget the SACP Johannesburg Central Branch AGM on Sunday, August 20th at 10h00, in the SATAWU offices, 13th floor, Old Mutual Building, 29 Kerk Street, between Loveday and Harrison Streets, Johannesburg. There are some journalists who think they are smarter and more powerful than mere politicians. They have infantile delusions of omnipotence. There are journalists who think that if they can only tickle the keyboard in front of them in just the right strength and combination, then the earth will move. Such a one is Moshoesoe “Looney Tunes” Monare of the Independent group of newspapers. In one over-excited day he brought forth three deeds of embarrassment, one in the Johannesburg Star, one in the Pretoria News, and one in the Cape Times. The Communist University will not dignify them with space in its archive. Monare is the fantasist who divined weird interpretations from the new issue of Umsebenzi Online, as mentioned yesterday. What was he smoking? The SACP has taken the opportunity to respond (in general terms) to these articles. So has COSATU’s Mpumalanga Province. See the first two links below. The real world of COSATU is better shown by the linked report from SACTWU on how this COSATU-affiliated union has out-organised the FEDUSA union NULAW in the leather industry. NULAW is a union that is highly praised by the so-called “Free Market Foundation” (which is actually a monopoly market foundation), e.g. here. COSATU opposed NULAW’s sweetheart ways as long ago as 1998. COSATU lives and grows. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on. The South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) has interesting things to say about race in SAA Technical. See the last link below. Click on these links: Theses on Feuerbach, Marx, 1845 (789 words) SACP Statement on current developments within COSATU (560 words) Defend COSATU against faceless leaders, COSATU Mpumalanga (362 words) SACTWU gains, NULAW loses, majority in the leather industry (293 words) Lily white at the top and pitch black at the bottom, SATAWU (589 words)