More Action, More Information

The Communist University is on a campaign to deal with the increase of information resulting from the high state of both militancy and reaction in South Africa at this time. One part of this campaign is to recruit more people to some of the sources of information that the CU uses. In the first place these are (numbered for convenience only): 1. COSATU Daily Labour News and COSATU Weekly 2. COSATU Press Releases 3. SACP Press Releases 4. ANC Press Releases 5. YCL Press Releases 6. Umsebenzi Online 7. ANC Today 8. The Bottom Line (YCL) 9. Hlomelang (ANCYL) 10. Friends of Cuba Society (FOCUS) Press Releases The most direct way to get this job moving is for it to be done centrally. Therefore please send e-mail with the lists you would like to receive to dominic.tweedie@gmail.com. Your own e-mail address is sufficient for subscription purposes. All of these subscriptions are free and all give you material that does not necessarily appear in the bourgeois media. The CU recommends COSATU Daily Labour News and COSATU Weekly in particular. It gives a good selection of items from the media in one economical e-mail, and you also get the COSATU Weekly every Friday, which covers, in brief, a lot of the press releases that have gone out from the federation in any given week. Umsebenzi Online is also a must, but is difficult to join. The CU will collect a list and take it to the SACP. Once again the CU is too pressed for time to do as much as usual, because of involvement with the same various kinds of activism we are usually reflecting on. Not forgetting that the CU is an educational initiative. Please visit the CU web site in this period if you can. Political education must continue or even increase during times of heightened class struggle. Among the matters that might normally be covered by an archived report on the CU today are (numbered for convenience not priority): 1. Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) country-wide day of action yesterday and reaction to it. 2. YCLSA delegation to Zimbabwe deported – Press Conference 11h00 today at 3rd floor, COSATU House, 1 Leyds Street, Braamfontein, South Africa. 3. The “State of COSATU” media conference, also in COSATU House at 10h00, given by the authors of the report (NALEDI). 4. Struggles in Durban of Abahlali base Mjondolo (shack-dwellers) 5. Sokwanele newsletter about Zimbabwe Forward to a successful COSATU 9th Congress from 18th to 21st September at Gallagher Estate!