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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:12 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 and > cheaply accused of *left wing communist* tendencies by some ‘learned’ > revolutionaries, let me clarify what our decision not to participate 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 working 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!<http://get.live.com/> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania" group. 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