Red October

See the link below for the latest Umsebenzi Online (Red October Edition), which gives a comprehensive statement on the SACP-led campaign for safe, affordable and accessible public transport and road safety for all in South Africa. This edition also includes SACP GS Dr Blade Nzimande’s open letter in reply to City Press Editor Mathatha Tsedu’s self-revelation of last Sunday. Tsedu’s article is unfortunately not available on line due to the stingy Internet policy of the City Press. Very few articles get put up on the City Press web site. From the Beeld newspaper, which is in the same Naspers stable as the City Press, Waldimar Pelser adds ammunition to the campaign for safe transport (see link). Thanks to Chris “Che” Matlhako for pointing this one out. A good, prize-winning Cuban film called (in English) “Portrait of Teresa” is going to be screened at the Cinema Nouveau, Pretoria on Thursday and the Johannesburg Cinema Nouveau on Sunday. Admission is free. It will be great to see a film of Cuban family life. Tomorrow at 09h00 starting at Oberholzer Taxi Rank in Carltonville, West Rand, the people of Merafong are marching for their rights. See the linked notice. In the East End of London on Sunday people will be marching to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. This was the great day in 1936 when the common people of London faced down the fascists on the streets of the capital. It was a very serious moment in history. The British fascists (the “Blackshirts”) were never again able to mount a challenge of that sort. Cable Street was a prelude to the anti-fascist war when, for a period of time, Britain was the only country standing against the German Nazi fascists, who bombed the same East End mercilessly in “The Blitz” of 1940. Five years after that, the Nazis too were gone. The anti-fascist war paved the way for the half-century of successful worldwide anti-colonial struggle of which our South African liberation movement was a major part. See James Tweedie’s London YCL mobilisation letter linked below. Click on these links: Umsebenzi Online, V 5, No. 65, 4 Oct 2006, Transport Safe and Public (2576 words) SA roads shocking, Waldimar Pelser, Beeld and News24 (255 words) Portrait of Teresa, Cuban Film, Pta Thursday, Jhb Sunday (Notice) SACP Yusuf Dadoo District, March at Merafong. Oct 6th 2006 (234 words) The Battle of Cable Street, James Tweedie, YCL London (284 words)