Remembering and RE-Dedicating Ourselves to Chairman John Nyathi Pokela's Legacy
Commemoration held in Zepth Mothopeng (Orlando West) Branch, Uncle Tom's Hall on the 30th June 2013 at 10:00 - 17h30 Cadres and members of the party need to triple their efforts and close ranks, to defend the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania from the raging factionalist feuding, petit bourgeois opportunism and ideological revisionism. Unity efforts must be principled, sincere and all-embracing (inclusive). Such opportunities must not be abused to advance factional legitimation at the expense of broader organisational unity. As PAC, we have a more daunting task ahead of us which the rallying and unification of the African masses, and the striving to establish a United Socialist States of Africa. One of the greatest unifiers in our history was Cde John Nyati Pokela. Indeed, today's the 30th June 2013 at Chairman John Nyathi Pokela Commemoration held at Orlando West was a resounding great success in that comrades engaged and shared valuable history and lessons regarding the achievements and dedication of Cde Poks, from 1959 when he was tasked to establish the Africanist Task Force to his unification of feuding Pan Africanist groupings in Robben Island and exile. On his arrival in Tanzania, Chairman John Nyathi Pokela articulated the Party's mission under his leadership as being threefold: (1) Unite the PAC (2) Focus the PAC in exile homeward (3) Ochestrate the Armed Struggle Today, in view of the petty bourgeoisie rightist deviation and opportunism fragmenting and paralysing the PAC, these aims can be expressed along the same lines as follows: (1) Unite the PAC (2) Focus the PAC cadreship and membership towards the African proletariat (3) Ochestrate the African proletarian revolution in Azania and across the African Continent. These three key points should constitute the basis to ideo-politically and organisationally unite, rebuild and position the PAC as a revolution party to assume a mass based character. Party leadership should be entrusted to members having a consistent record of activism and organisational discipline, and members who should be deployed on fulltime bases to advance and execute party political programme. Social revolution, however, requires that the petty-bourgeois leadership should have committed "class suicide", proven by party political work record of consistent and principled activism of advancing aims and objectives of the party. Class suicide by the African petty-bourgeois leadership to assume a revolutionary role and character amounts to adhering to revolutionary consciousness and the culture of revolution rather than acting on its immediate material interests as a social class. It must sacrifice its class position, privileges, and power through identification with the working masses. This unlikely event depends on the power and material basis of the revolutionary consciousness of sections of the petty bourgeoisie. The idea of class suicide by the revolutionary leadership is perhaps Cabral's most important message to socialist revolutionaries today. To rectify mistaken ideas and political methods which hinders to rise of and for a revolutionary socialist programme to be advanced on a Pan African basis and globally, a dedicated session should be organised to focus on the following aspects:- (1)Identify Mistaken Ideas and political methods. (2) Put in Place a Rectification Programme The Pokela Day must be commemorated across the PAC. 30 Jun 2014 will be the 30th year the PAC lost this great leader of the African people; this very trustworthy, dedicated and dependable of PAC cadres and leaders; this great visionary in the mould of Mda, Sobukwe and Raboroko. Participant concluded on the necessity to focus PAC regional structures, branches and members on the daily community and workers socio-economic daily struggles. Sincere PAC members should refrain using open social media networks to resolve inner party disagreements and session noted that the extent of infighting demonstrates political and ideological degeneration across all sections of the party since our understanding is that contradictions among comrades are non-antagonistic. Thank you the organisers. Special thanks to Cde Raymond Nkrumah Kgagudi for his energy and excellent facilitation. Compiled by Cde Thabo Ntoni All wealth to the Poor! Socialism in our Lifetime! Izwe Lethu -- -- 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.
