Use All The Weapons

“… any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.” - Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) The Communist University meets this evening to discuss the YCL discussion document on Strategy and Tactics. We will meet at 1st Floor, COSATU House, 1 Leyds Street, Braamfontein at 17h00. For on-line discussion of this and the other YCL documents, go to the YCLSA Discussion Forum. Please note we are not meeting at Constitution Hill at present. Please bring your views as to where our regular meeting place should be, when you come to COSATU House this evening. Next week (November 24th) we will be discussing Issa Shivji’s “The Struggle For Democracy” (see the link below). You may be surprised at how topical this work is. In South Africa a struggle comrade gets 15 years for something called “symbiosis”. In the USA, a man with machine guns, bazookas and grenades who had been recorded calling for mass murder of Cuban people gets four years, while the Cuban Five are in indefinite imprisonment in that country. See the linked document. The great new site Zimbabwe Fight On Don’t Mourn is shooting up the charts. This is a debating forum that anyone can join. Its membership has overtaken that of the Swaziland Solidarity Network by a long way, although both were established at about the same time, and with about the same number of people. There is going to be a Zimbabwe Freedom Festival in Johannesburg on Saturday, December 9th. The organisers need help with various things - see the linked document below. It is much better to take part in the making of the event, as well as the day itself. Johannesburg Central Branch of the SACP has its last BGM of 2006 on December 3rd. See the branch schedule linked below. For more than a year we knew nothing. Now, in one day, we are supposed to be certain sure about everything. The new version is that the late Brett Kebble had a "symbiosis" with Glen Agliotti whereby Aglotti would arrange to have Kebble murdered for the sake of an insurance payout. There are pages of this stuff. It is pure Hollywood. Don’t waste your time. Click on these links: ‘The Struggle for Democracy', Shivji, 2003 (5037 words) Anti-Cuba Terrorist Gets Only 4 Years, Gloria La Riva, Counterpunch (932 words) Zim Freedom Festival, Johannesburg, Saturday 9 December (Notice and appeal) SACP Jhb Central Branch Schedule, 2006-2007 (Schedule and BEC)