Ends And Beginnings

COSATU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has issued a year assessment on behalf of the COSATU Central Executive Committee. See the document linked below. COSATU’s 21st Anniversary was on December 1st. The occasion was celebrated some days later with an all-day seminar. The speaker who added the most to the occasion, and who was most appreciated by the large gathering of COSATU comrades was the young professor Ashwin Desai. He also got the most laughs. Ashwin’s speech was reproduced in this Week’s Mail and Guardian, in the article linked below. The Communist University is happy to be able to bring you the names of the newly-elected YCLSA National Committee, and especially happy because many of their names and even faces are familiar from the CU mailing list and the CU weekly study group sessions. See the list linked below. The CU would particularly like to congratulate Comrade Floyd Shivhambu for his election to the YCL National Committee because he reads, and he discusses, but especially because he is not afraid to write, and to publish what he writes. The Party cannot do without such people. This quality in comrades is what the Communist University is striving to encourage. There is no way that communists can reach and give leadership to masses of people unless they are capable of composing their words. This is so whether the medium is text or voice. Speakers are in the first place writers. The same YCL Congress which elected the new National Committee also deliberated upon the organisation’s way forward. A short summary of the outcomes of the Congress, called “Building Youth Power for Socialism”, was issued following the YCL’s Press Conference yesterday, and is linked below. The Communist University does not hesitate to wish all who have been in any way associated with it, plus the working class in general and its allies, a Happy Christmas and a Revolutionary New Year! Click on these links: COSATU assessment of 2006 (4977 words) All aboard the gravy train, Ashwin Desai, Mail and Guardian (1325 words) YCLSA National Committee elected at 2nd National Congress (list of 25 names) Youth Power for Socialism, YCL 2nd National Congress outcomes (913 words)