Comrade Charge-in
Factionalism within the party which has exhibited itself in many ills such as the parallel National Leadership structures including other party structures, is a manifestation of both the ideo-political and organisation degeneration, primarily degeneration of the branches and members of the PAC, hence the rot and decay we see. Legitimacy of any leadership is derived from popular explicit and implicit consent of the governed (members and branches) acting through, and as determined and prescribed by the PAC Constitution and Disciplinary Code. Whether a leadership has authority, in the sense that members and branches obey its instructions and laws, we can ask whether it(leadership) has legitimacy. The term legitimate comes from the Latin for ‘lawful’. In the most basic sense, a national leadership is legitimate if it exists and operates according to the law in this case PAC Constitution and Disciplinary Code thus enjoy full support and recognition of members and branches. Branches are the party's basic blocks, they are a determining factor of unity or perpetuation of factions, if they are strong or weak. If the majority or ideally all members and branches withdraw their recognition and association of any national leadership then no-one leadership can claim legitimacy. Weak branches and members are susceptible to evil influences, hence the feuding parallel National Leaderships thrives on the basis of an ideologically weak, confused and divided membership and/or branches. Acting outside of the PAC Constitution and Disciplinary code, the feuding leaderships uses and exploit differences of whatever nature prevalent among members and/or branches thus coordinate and recognise those members and/or branches who legitimizes it, this then make an illegitimate leadership by default become legitimate. Unified members acting through their Branches constitutes the basic building blocks of the party as per the party disciplinary code. If a branch based members disagree and they operate outside the party constitution and disciplinary code, and their disagreements persistently remain unresolved such an internal environment will either breed factionalism or create a fertile ground for factionalism to prevail. Bottom-up implies refers to party members centred and driven unity process to defactionalise the party from the branch level to regional level etc. Acting within the principle of democratic centralism, inclusive branch meetings composed of all PAC members drawn across feuding groupings and also inclusive inter-branch regional meetings equally composed of all members drawn from feuding groupings, PAM and any other PAC members seeking principled unity has proven to e the most effective method to defactionalise and forge principled unity; such regular meetings, political classes included are coordinated and organised to take place on regular basis (example monthly). Our Party is not simply an aggregate of individual members. It is a unified, organic body established according to a definite principle. It is a composite of its leaders and its rank and file. The Party as an organization at all levels and the broad body of the membership and it has been established in accordance with a definite principle, that is, democratic centralism in the Party. · Organise regular all members inclusive branch meetings; · Reconstitute branches and operate within party constitution and disciplinary code; · Organise regular all members regional meetings; · Reconstitute regions and operate within the party constitution and disciplinary code; · Organise ideological and political workshops on regular basis at regional and provincial level; · Initiate and organise mass based community struggles; · Organise regular all inclusive provincial meetings to consolidate unity with common purpose and consolidate gains made; · Approach the PAC national unity conference from a position of unity achieved from the bottom to top, that is branches to regional then provincial; Avoid attending and convening national conferences coming from your branches and regions being divided and highly factionalised, instead approach national unity conference from a position where concrete steps and actions has been taken, gains had been to forge principle unity from the branch level moving upward. If P .A.C. wants to forge ahead, it must adopt and carry out this principle with firmness and thoroughness. To address and root out Factionalism which the party basic documents has concluded that “Factionalism is the enemy of solidarity and unity of action”, the Party basic documents also concludes that “to destroy it (factionalism) at its roots, maximum self-criticism should be encouraged within the movement. A movement that adopts democratic centralism in its approach to its organizational problems will know how to deal with the virus of factionalism”. And that “Where the normal processes of free discussion fail to curb factional tendencies, then firm iron discipline should come into play, and factional”. Shango Lashu NKrumah On 9 September 2016 at 11:13, Chargein Mabaso <chargein...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Comrade Nkrumah > > How are you, Son of the soil? > > I would also appreciate to meet you and other comrade who would like to > share ideas on the unity talks in relation to my input. My position is not > cast in stone. I have applied my mind to the task at hand. May be I am not > informed on the basis of twor approaches. I only based my position on the > scientific approach to Party unity. I also drew lessons from other > revolutions worldwide. The current crisis is not unique to PAC. All > revolutionary parties through the world experienced the same challenge of > factionalism. They addressed their own crises the same way as enshrined in > the PAC Basic Documents. It is the only objective and scientific approach. > Others are subjective and unscientific. That is my stance. > > Lest we forget! There is unfinished business in the PAC. People want to > settle old scores, in one way or another. Let's not trivalise the current > crisis. Some of political and ideological differences in the PAC have their > roots going as far as in exile and in Robben Island in the days of > Casablanca and Morovian groups, Katanga's, Panafro, Sobukwe Forum, APRP, > etc. PAM, ID and APC are new phenomena. We need to open those wounds, > surgically clean and stitch them so that they heal properly. The > broad-church mentality does not work even in reformist parties like the > ANC, let alone in evolutionary ones. > > My challenge is: I believe the approach enshrined in the PAC Basic > Documents is the only correct and scientific one. The reason is, from my > experience since I joined PAC, any position in line with the PAC Basic > Documents is always the correct one at the end. Any violation of the PAC > Basic Documents always proved to be wrong in the final analysis. Take, for > example, the suspension of armed struggle by the PAC NWC and the > President's violation of the PAC Constitution and Disciplinary Code after > Qwaqwa Congress. No amount of innovation and creativity will ever disprove > the correctness of the PAC Basic Documents. They are sacrosanct to us as > Pan Africanist just like the Bible is to Christians. Once comrades start to > question their correctness, I always feel suspicious of the intentions of > those Party members. I know there is currently some members who openly > disagree with Sobukwe and Kwame Nkrumah on certain political line they > advocated for the Party Their mere mention of such disagreements makes me > doubt their intentions and honest. They sound mischievous. To me, that is > strange to claim to be following in the footsteps of Sobukwe and Nkrumah > and still disagree with the them on their political line. Such a move is > like being a proud Christian totally opposed to some of the teachings of > Jesus Christ, for example, being opposed to the "turn-the-other-chick" > stance advocated by Jesus Christ. It's contradiction in terms. Honest and > loyal Christians do not advocate "an-eye-for-an-eye" stance in dealing with > their enemies. > > May be after our meeting I will be convinced otherwise. As of now, I am > not. I currently believe there is no need to event the wheel at this stage. > The tools of resolving PAC crisis are enshrined in the PAC Basic Documents, > no where else. I may be wrong. Please educate me, noble sons and daughters > of the soil. > > I am available next week from Monday to Friday. I will be around Joburg > for the whole week. We can meet at any convenient time. Let's keep in > contact. > > I want to be honest, I am not convince the Top-down and Bottom-up > approaches will ever work. I may be wrong. My instinct and logic say the > opposite. Objectively, the two approaches are not workable. May be after > our meeting I will see light at the end of the tunnel. Let's talk later, > comrade. > > Izwe Lethu! > > > Charge-in Mabaso > Cell: 071 020 3554 > > . > > > > > > On 8 September 2016 at 21:17, Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi <nrkgag...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Cde Charge in >> >> Thanks for the document which I perused, your critique of Top Down and >> Bottom Up strategies fails to recognise the solutions presented or arising >> from each strategy and also that both strategies are capable to converge as >> long as there the two strategies are not executed from an antagonist >> initiators. >> >> Please note: Not all PAC Branches and regions have parallel structures, >> in some areas parallel structures have collapsed, this present a space to >> rebuild ftom the bottom. >> >> I suggest a session to exchange ideas on your paper. >> >> Shango lashu >> Nkrumah >> >> On 8 Sep 2016 13:28, "Chargein Mabaso" <chargein...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ma-Afrika >>> >>> Please find the attached document as my objective contribution to the >>> debate on unity talks within the Pan Africanist camp. It is my sincere hope >>> that the contribution will kick-start the derailed talks into motion in the >>> right direction. >>> >>> Izwe Lethu! >>> >>> . >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com >>> >>> Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> >>> 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 payco+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> -- >> Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com >> >> Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> 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 payco+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com > > Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > 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 payco+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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. 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