Masses Organised and Determined

Today should be the last day of the last Zuma trial, if the judge and the legal profession of South Africa have any proper sense of their own best interests. A conviction usually serves the bourgeois social purpose of setting the convict apart and allowing press and the public to vilify him without any fear of slander or libel suits. The separation of the judge and the condemned is a fundamental bourgeois social sacrament, which normally confirms the position of both of them, when it is accepted. But in this case the majority has already made up its mind. If the judges want to go up against the people they may lose a lot more than they bargain for. They might even lose their position altogether, so that we move to elected judges in the revolutionary fashion, as the French proletariat did during the Paris Commune. In today’s case the prosecutors have made themselves so odious that for a judge to give them any kind of respect could only be at the expense of his own respectability. The way for the judiciary to re-integrate itself with the people is for them to throw the case out and instead to go after the time-wasting chancers who have brought this frivolous and vexatious prosecution that has been so damaging to the fabric and reputation of the law itself. Support for the Maduna/Ngcuka gang from the bourgeois media has made no difference and will make no difference. There will be huge demonstrations in Pietermaritzburg today. COSATU will also be marching at 13h00 today in Pretoria, starting at the City Hall in Visagie Street, to the US Embassy to present a memorandum of support for the people of Palestine and Lebanon against the brutal military attacks by the Israeli armed forces. Also linked below is a strong and true report by Gideon Levy from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The Israelis and the USA can never say, like the Nazi Germans and the white South Africans used to say: “We didn’t know”. They know very well what they are doing. See the first two links below. COSATU’s affiliate SACTWU has campaigned steadily, and all other affiliates have supported in terms of the COSATU Jobs and Poverty Campaign, the preservation of the South African textile and clothing industry and the defeat of doctrinaire pursuit of destructive ideological globalism. Thanks to this South Africa is beginning to develop negotiated trade relations which are based on the real interests of the parties and not upon the irrational worship of imaginary free-market Gods. See the linked item below. COSATU affiliate NUMSA’s Central Committee met yesterday and issued a carefully worded statement of which the relevant parts are “…the determinant factor will be the extent to which leadership elected will lead the Federation towards the realisation of the plans contained in the 2015 programme. Anything else about leadership is a secondary matter for us.” and: “The policy workshop spent time examining the consolidated draft COSATU resolutions. NUMSA is happy to note that the consolidated COSATU Resolutions are dealing with major social, economic and political implications, both for South Africa, and the world.” These statements are generally taken to mean that COSATU’s 9th Congress to be held at Gallagher Estate from 18th to 21st September will be even more united and determined than previously expected, and that the machinations of the bourgeois press have been defeated once again. Also below is a link to a report from the Johannesburg Star about the reported attempt by former COSATU First Deputy President Joe Nkosi to bribe one of SACP GS Dr Blade Nzimande’s driver/bodyguards to give him information. Click on these links: COSATU March to US Embassy, Pretoria 13h00 Tuesday (notice) There is a horror taking place in Gaza, Gideon Levy, Haaretz (1014 words) COSATU, SACTWU welcome quotas on Chinese clothing, textiles (1220 words) NUMSA Central Committee, on leadership and resolutions (711 words) COSATU set to probe allegations of spying, Linda Daniels, The Star (443 words)