Greetings, Comrade Mawande I agree with you wholeheartedly, the future for the struggling masses of our people is Socialism. The Left is currently unoccupied hence the ANC has been able to manipulate our people by preaching leftist Agenda and practising neo-liberal agenda at the same time. Until the so called leftist parties get their act together and position themselves accordingly, the ANC and its Alliance Patners would continue to bluff and cheat our people.
The future for Pan Africanists parties in Azania and elsewhere is to pursue a radical leftist Agenda that truly carries the interests and aspirations of the poor and working class. Chairman Mao emphasises self critism to build a strong and invincible party. I think it is important for us as Pan Africanist,particularly those of us in the PAC, to start asking ourselves difficult questions to be able to understand ourselves and our role as such in the emancipation of our people. The following are some of the questions we ought to ask ourselves: # Is the PAC still relevant at this day and age? # Is the character and form of the current PAC relevant in the current prevailing material conditions? # Is PAC Socialist or Capitalist? # Are PAC policies speaking to the day to day challenges of our people? # What is PAC target audience? # Is PAC rank and file able to communicate to our audience? # Is PAC attracting the correct cadre? # What is PAC vision and Mission? Is it still relevant? # What attitude PAC should adopt towards other Leftist movements? # What attitude PAC should adopt towards government and the ruling party? It is important to remind each other that the great role we played in the liberation struggle does not give us entitlement in leading the struggles to emancipate our people,we must fight for it like everybody else. Hence it is critical to participate,initiate and lead protestes, demonstrations and all types of struggles against capitalism and its running dogs. It is key as well to note that without a viable and vibrant PAC at a National level, all efforts to build a strong PAC on the ground would count to zero, we risk being pawns in the ANC die-hards struggle for tenders and lucrative government positions. Efforts to rescue the PAC remains primary and key. Yours for a classless society Kwame Ndebele PAYCO President > > Comrades > > Some disgruntled sections from the ANC-Alliance who had severed links > with the ruling party are launching initiatives like these. Although > they have not entirely moved away from their Charterist ways, it looks > there is an opening of a new political space with several figures trying > to craft anew a socialist movement of sorts from the various strands of > social movements that are at the forefront of protests in various > community and industrial sites. > Inescapably, Pan Africanists of all hues and tendencies who find > themselves in the coalface of these mass protests whether by design or > default would in one way or another be compelled by the force of > circumstances to study these new developments, provide analysis and > ultimately leadership. Leaders and members from various Pan Africanist > formations have not just a moral responsibility but a political duty to > lead in these circumstances in configuring a path within these open > political spaces that will deepen capitalist contradictions and help > intensify in building a true socialist consciousness among the vast > masses of our people. > > Can we debate Ma-Afrika? > > Mawande Jack > > > > Left-wing groups in EC back Democratic Left > ________________________________ > > <javascript:chgImg(-1)> Image of <javascript:chgImg(1)> > > > > > > 2009/12/15 > > > THE idea of a Conference of the Democratic Left (CDL) - a platform for > dialogue for solidarity and mass action - was given a resounding > endorsement by left-wing organisations yesterday. > > At a meeting in Grahamstown, representatives of several organisations > such as the Unemployed Peoples' Movement (UPM), Rural Development > Movement, Land Reform Investigation Movement and several others > undertook to organise a provincial version of the CDL early in 2010. > > The national CDL is scheduled to be launched in March next year and > conveners are currently on a countrywide consultation mission. > > The preliminary meeting in Grahamstown is understood to be the first of > these in the province. > > One of the CDL conveners, Mazibuko Jara, said he hoped the CDL would > bring together a "weak and divided Left" and communities actively > involved in struggle. It was hoped the conference would "build > solidarity" in the Left. > > He emphasised that the conference would not be about taking a "sectarian > stance against the ANC alliance" or any other party. > > "We are not against the ANC, but we won't shy away from criticising the > capitalist policies of the ANC. We want to build a united, > anti-capitalist perspective and platform ... a non-sectarian, open-ended > Left that tries to draw as many people as possible from various > organisations onto a platform for political struggle." > > Jara carefully steered the meeting away from the idea that the CDL was a > political party. He said that, at this point, they had "no idea" what > form it would take. But there was a need for an "alternative political > pole" in SA that would speak clearly for the poor and working people. > > He said to move forward, the Left had to "unlearn" many of the "dogmas" > and styles of politics of the past and learn a "new style" for a > different anti- capitalist economic struggle. > > Ayanda Kota from the Unemployed People's Movement in Makana said changes > in SA to date had been merely "cosmetic". People from the former > liberation movements had "shifted to the Right" and had become the > "CEOs" who had been co-opted by the system and were "toeing a different > line". > > He warned that change would not come without courage and pledged the > UPM's support for the CDL, whatever form it took. "The truth is we need > an alternative. The CDL could not have come at a better time." > > Afterwards Jara, who said he was delighted with the outcome of the > meeting, explained that he had found SACP's Blade Nzimande and Young > Communist League (YCL) secretary Buti Manamela's recent statements about > the CDL "disappointing". > > According to the Mail & Guardian, Manamela told an SACP conference that > he was shocked Jara was still being kept a member of the party. > > "(The organisers of the Democratic Left) are travelling the breadth and > width of the country trying to pull together, with no support, this > stokvel of theirs. We hang our heads in shame that he is from our > ranks." > > Jara said the party "should not be threatened by the Left". "Hopefully > others will behave in more mature way." > > He added that the derogatory statements about the CDL were infantile and > had been made out of "ignorance and paranoia". > > -- > Sending your posting to [email protected] > > Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] > > You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco > > Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ South Africa's premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For super low premiums, click here http://home.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm -- Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com
