Son and Daughters of Africa Pan Africanist Labour Forum meeting went well and the debates were qualitative emanating from the presentations made on the Origin, Purpose and Logic of All Africanist Labour Coordinating Committee (AALCOC) to Pan Africanist Labour Forum (PALF). The meeting resolved to concretise the discussions by formulating a concept document explaining the purpose and logic of PALF, and the relationship of PALF with NACTU, COSATU, FEDUSA and CONSAWU, and other trade unions including. PALF is a component structure of the PAC as per 4.3.6. Ideas advanced is that PALF should not be become a trade union nor a federation however through PALF should influence trade unions and its members to embrace Pan Africanism and PALF members should be active PAC members and that as PAC we must swell the ranks of all NACTU Trade unions and finally take control of NACTU.
One evident aspect is an observation that Pan Africanism as the party ideology is understood differently and at times some explanations are not only different and divergent; they are furthermore in conflict or are contradicting the principles of Pan Africanism, therefore this realisation led to a conclusion that party ideology is an area that must be deliberated and workshopped, we strongly believe that Pan Africanism is not an extension of a nationalist bourgeoisie democratic interests and aspirations nor it is an intermediate social theoretical construction representing nationalist bourgeoisie aspirations. At the meeting held on Sunday the 17th February 2013, sharp ideological debates emerged to an extent that it became evident that we should organise a political workshop on the 10 March 2013 its topic will be Pan Africanism and National Question, Venue Johannesburg Civic Centre in Braamfontein Opposite Constitutional Hill, Time: 10:00-16:00. We will organise lunch amidst financial constraints. We hope that this political workshop's debates will clear confusion and conflicting interpretation of the 1959 Pan Africanist Manifesto and open the space to craft a political strategy for the party! We encourage and hope that comrades will diarise this date and attend. We will ha another PALF meeting around March or April 2013 whereat focus will be on PALF concept documentation and programme of action. Comrades across all provinces should organise themselves into regional PALF structures and appoint regional coordinating committees which we will communicate and liaise with us on regular basis. This is a brief of discussions we held and we hope comrades will attend future meetings or send representatives. Yours in revolution. Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi National Secretary Pan Africanist Labour Forum -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
