CU Generic Course on the NDR

[CU for Tuesday, 29 September 2009]

The CU Generic Course on the National Democratic Revolution has been completed and re-published on the YCLSA Discussion Forum web site and on the Johannesburg Central Branch web site.

These are the twelve parts, side by side with the main discussion texts:

	Part	Main discussion text (MS-Word download)
1	National Democratic Revolution	Development of Utopian Socialism, Engels
2	Origin of the National Republic	18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, C1 & 7, Marx
3	Genesis of the NDR	Report on National & Colonial Question, 2CCI, Lenin
4	National-Scale Democracy	Black Proletariat, ICU, Black Republic, Cradock Letter
5	The National Question	Moses Kotane, C2, The National Question, Bunting
6	People’s Republic	Chinese Revolution & Chinese Communist Party, Mao
7	Congress, Pact and Defiance	The African Miners Strike of 1946, Naicker, 1976
8	Congress Call	Call to the Congress of the People, Freedom Charter
9	Peasants’ Revolt	Peasants’ Revolt, Govan Mbeki
10	Strategy and Tactics	Strategy and Tactics, Morogoro, 1969, ANC
11	SA Working Class & the NDR	SA Working Class and the NDR
12	Hegemony in the NDR	Building hegemony on NDR terrain, 2009, SACP

All of the above material has recently been published on the CU blog (starting here) and by e-mail.

Here is a summary of recent CU publishing:

Communist University Generic Courses, New Edition

Recently re-edited:

• Basic Communism
• No Woman, No Revolution
• Lenin’s “The State and Revolution”
• National Democratic Revolution
• Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1

Other material:

• The 2005 CU Generic Courses (some have been updated)
• The on-going CU blog, where the courses are continuously drafted
• Plug-in City, a one-stop shop of forums and distribution lists

The CU is scheduled to meet to discuss the forthcoming SACP Special National Congress this coming Sunday as follows:

• Date: 4 October 2009 (Sunday)
• Time: 10h00
• Venue: University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein Campus

You will be notified separately, and with more detail.