In transforming the PAC into an advanced organisation to occupy the centre stage of political developments in our political epoch we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from being adequate. SO WE MUST BE PREPARED AND BE GOOD IN LEARNING. Conditions changes all the time, to adopt one’s thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have a better grasp of Pan Africanism and Socialist revolution and are comparatively firm in their African Nationalist Struggle have to go on studying to absorb what is new and study new problems. We can learn what we did not know. We must not only be good in destroying the old order, we must be good in creating the new one. We must not forget the old but we must embrace the new. We must be able to see or create an opportunity in the new. Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is a dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not is suited to our conditions, the other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions and absorb whatever experience is useful to us. This is the attitude we should adopt. Theories of Marx, Lenin and Mao should not be regarded as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying these theories should not be a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning them as the science of revolution. We must see to it that all our cadres constantly bear in mind that ours is a struggle for a Democratic Socialist Order. Whenever we happen to be we must treasurer our manpower and material resources, and must not take short view or indulge in wasteful petty issues as it might be the case with us concerning the current PAC leadership. If we are not happy with the leadership we must work tirelessly to usurp that leadership. We must bear in mind that we are fighting a protracted warfare that must be maintained. In order to speed up this political restoration and development of PAC into a vibrant party to be reckoned we must do our utmost, in the cause of our struggle. We must destroy and abolition factionalism. We must take resolute measures against anyone who is destroying our movement by sewing and exacerbating the seeds of division. A dangerous tendency has shown itself of late in the PAC among many of our comrades, the unwillingness to share the gains and hardship of the struggling masses. This culminated into a concern by oneself of his personal fame and gains in the expense of the PAC. This is very bad and it has demonstrated that it can destroy the party. Our party is suffering because of our mistakes in dealing with concerns in the organisation. If we are to maintain that we do not recognise the current leadership which continues to be recognise by legal institutions of this country, then we are doomed. At the present this is the only PAC leadership that exist and every one of us who really needs to contribute in the political development of this country should use the PAC under the current leadership as the focal point. We can never make a meaningful contribution as Pan Africanists under PAC if our house is in tatters. We should swallow our pride and do away with our own selfish interests or revenge of whatever and help resuscitate this movement. Only through radical involvement and robust debates in a correct PAC platform will we make our contribution and mark in this political era. As individuals we cannot do much but as PAC we can. By PAC I mean PAC with NEC, PEC, REC, BEC’s and all the components structures. By PAC I do not refer to a certain ‘Pac’ under a tree somewhere in South Africa. If comrades we cannot be true to ourselves we are not able to take our masses anywhere. I wish to make a challenge to every person that we should derive the means to unite all the Pan Africanist Forces by April next. People should stop talking of Unity if they cannot take an initiative. To those who continue to use a foul bourgeoisie charterist language and disrespect other comrades I am saying to them you are synonymous to the enemies of revolution. YOU ARE ANTI PAC. Please all comrades with sensible mind and consciousness and those who do not fear to be labelled and be regarded unpopular and those who does not fear death by thousands cuts help me in fostering Unity in this organisation. I will only consider and entertain contributions by comrades who will never address PAC concern in a traditional vulgar bourgeoisie language. Peace Amongst the Africans and War Against the Enemy
Forward to a United PAC ________________________________ From: Mawande Jack <[email protected]> To: PAYCO Azania <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: Tsietsi <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 9:13:53 AM Subject: [PAYCO] new political spaces 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 ________________________________ Image of 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 -- 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
