Hulisani you are out of order. Your stale ideas and verbose tendencies are only a disgrace to your person and the intelligence it should be potraying.
Your case is no case at all. Sent from my iPhone On 09 Mar 2009, at 0:14, Hulisani Mmbara <[email protected]> wrote: > PAYCO s’ decision to stay out of the 2009 elections elicited trivial > criticism from some quarters. Whereas we are already mistakenly an > d cheaply accused of left wing communist tendencies by some ‘learned > ’ revolutionaries, let me clarify what our decision not to participa > te in the elections is about as opposed to what it is not about. > > It is about internal Party democracy. We cannot tolerate > dictatorship of any kind and allow individuals or cliques to hold > the greater majority of Party members ransom. The will of PAC > members must be respected and their voices must be heard. The Alice > farce was the apex of the negation of internal Party democracy when > Letlapa defied delegates from branches on the amendments to the > constitution. As far as we are concerned the dictator will lead > himself and dictate only to himself. It is our responsibility to > teach Party members that they are the ultimate arbiters of party > programmes and this we shall do patiently. We will not allow > individualism to flourish over Party collective. Let it be > understood that the sovereignty of PAC members is supreme. > > It is about Party discipline. There have been several deviations > from party positions. For instance who sent Leltapa to go on an ego > trip apologizing for the armed struggle on our behalf and why should > the PAC ever apologize? The armed struggle was not a mistake. It was > a just, principled revolutionary Party programme and no individual > can take solo decisions on any aspects of our collective engagement > in the armed struggle. > > It is about collective leadership and responsibility across board. > If we sideline and suppress members of the Party we cannot expect > them to support programmes that arose out of such negation of > internal democracy. We have equal rights of participation and say. > We share collective responsibility for our collective decisions as a > Party. It is a disgrace that a revolutionary Party should tolerate > any kind of dictatorship. We are not a Mafia organisation where the > boss is the alpha and omega. > > It is about ideological commitment. Since Qwaqwa we have witnessed a > litany of ideological deviations from the Party line. It is not > necessary to repeat them but if we are challenged we can give a > substantial account of the same. > > Our decision is not by any stretch of intelligible imagination about > whether or not we believe the elections are a relevant mechanism of > advancing revolutionary programmes. We are not concerned here with > the merits or demerits of legal forms and methods of struggle. We > accept the principle that the methods and forms of a revolutionary > struggle must be determined by obtaining material political > situation and at the moment the only way of advancing the struggle > is to work amongst the masses and engage in revolutionary struggles > of the masses to build a popular support base which will allow us to > meaningfully participate in popular elections. Elections are about > popularity (numbers) of parties, programmes and committed > leadership. That popularity can only be won through years of > organised mass struggles and eloquent articulation of mass struggles. > > Let me amplify, succinctly, our grounds to stay out of the > forthcoming 2009 General Elections: > > The imposed and illegitimate leadership is in gross contempt and > violation of Party Constitution i.e. invoking of the decree and > dissolving of the NEC. > The prevailing malicious, systematic marginalisation and suppression > of party members and structures by the imposed and illegitimate > leadership; disbanding structures and appointing provincial co- > ordinators, setting up parallel component structures, cooking up > membership in order to cling to power and depriving genuine PAC > members of the right to annual membership renewal. > The absence of political vision and direction; What is the Party > vision today? Where is the Party going? Where will the Party be in > 2014? > The absence of a revolutionary programme of action; what is the > attitude and relationship of the Party towards the workers, women, > youth and the poor masses versus the neo-colonial order in this > country and on the continent? How does the Party plan to-engange-to- > dislodge the neo-colonial capitalist order? > Failure to advocate established party policies which advance and > promote spiritual and material interests of the African people in > general and the poor and working class in particular; > Audacious careerism and opportunism to promote, in general, > reactionary tendencies and selfish interests of a few individuals > within the ‘leadership’ in the name of the party at the expense > of the sweat, toil and blood of revolutionary, committed and hard wo > rking party members; > Conspicuous departure from the revolutionary commitment, > orientation, tasks, programmes, policies and traditions of the PAC > and a concerted advancement of clear counter revolutionary > programmes not only to frustrate and dilute the noble cause of the > Party but to practically abort the revolutionary objectives of the > party; > > In short the imposed and illegitimate leadership is no longer > advancing the programmes of the PAC and the forthcoming 2009 general > election under these treacherous circumstances is being used to > leverage the counter revolutionary agenda. We are under no > obligation to make a counter revolutionary contribution to a counter > revolutionary programme or for that matter tolerate such programmes > within the ranks of the Party. > > The Party is being enslaved by forces of counter revolution. It is > being turned against itself from within. And the question is for how > long shall we keep on compromising with counter revolutionary forces > for the sake of unity and cohesion of the party when the same forces > destruct the same pillars of strengths with impunity in order to > advance counter revolutionary programmes? > > Comrades we have taken this stand after a long and hard > interrogation of a series of events, programmes, actions and > pronouncements which have confirmed that the imposed and > illegitimate leadership does not represent what the PAC stands for > or represent the revolutionary aspirations of the African masses. It > is a colossal masquerade. > > Our commitment and responsibility to the PAC is infinite and we are > determined to banish and defeat the counter revolutionary offensive > within Party ranks so that PAC can forge ahead with its historic > mission. > > We stand by our decision: No Revolutionary Leadership - No > Revolutionary Party - No Revolutionary Programme - No Revolutionary > Policy - No Elections! > > For and on Behalf of PAYCO > > Hulisani Mmbara > PAYCO President > 082 593 3012 > > > > > > Get the next generation of Free Windows Live Services Click here! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania" group. 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