Thanks very much for informative and constructive contributions you brought to this YCL discussion forum. Comrades the past weeks our senior alliance comrades were booed at special SACP conference in polokwane and this was well organized by few communist and without doubt the Secretary General Cde Buti Manamela and his loyal lieutenants in the provincial office of YCL Limpopo. It was indeed very unfortunate and I believe that if you have got issues with the individuals as a true communist you must address it in manner that will prioritized unity of the alliance structures.
As a communist myself I felt that my image being tarnished by certain sections of opportunist communist who cannot even project the suitable conditions simply because they have got the micro phone near them and they can just as they like. These are with no doubt comrades who cannot understand the difficulties that we encounter in building the structures of YCL at grass roots level. You can’t build effective and efficient structures as well as communist cadres at news café of the fundamental concern is political education across all YCL branches which never happen-Building strong structures that are not depending on ANCYL-Campaign to educate young people in particular the high school students on the struggle for socialism. If you have to come to a real truth, All YCL members were recruited from strong branches of the ANCYL –ANCYL sub regions and Regions have worked hard to ensure the existence of YCL branches under difficult conditions. As such for Comrade Buti Manamela to attack the ANCYL leader basically means he is attacking his own members who elected him and that comrade is truth. The impression given is that YCL leaders at National level are not in touch with their branches and have no understanding of the life of their own branches. I’m not saying Buti must not defend the leadership of SACP but booing senior youth leader is definitely unacceptable and completely misguided. Comrades when you go in battle you must have trained and tested commanders and competent soldiers but Buti and his loyal lieutenants’ decided to do other way round. But they must remember that it was solely on the bases of not having full understanding of the general membership and on depending too much on theory without practice that Comrade Josiah Tshangana Gumede was toppled in 1930. "Everywhere the oppressed peoples were being inspired by that ideal of emancipation which found expression in the Russian revolution. There was still an illusion that the people would obtain justice from the British Government. But the plain truth was that they had again and again failed in their petitions to the British Government, and that their supplications to the Governor-General had been futile. 'We now have to rely on our own strength . . . We have to demand our equal economic, social and political rights. That cannot be expressed more clearly than to demand a South African Native Republic, with equal rights for all, but free from all foreign and local domination'". It was this important speech that destroys his chances of getting re-elected at 1930 conference solely because he was a leader far ahead of his time, but perhaps too far ahead. “To ignore the real situation and to play about with imaginary forces, concepts and ideals is to invite failure. The art of revolutionary leadership consists in providing leadership to the masses and not just to its most advanced elements; it consists of setting a pace which accords with objective conditions and the real possibilities at hand “ This should serve as major lesson to all of us that is important to first understand how our basic units are build and who constitute that, and who are the architect of this structures. It is not going to be surprise move when overwhelming majority of YCL removes Buti Manamela from his position soon. Comrade communists the time has come to deal with over ambitious and opportunists leaders in the YCL to deal with comrades who took significant decision alongside their girlfriends in up market pubs to influence SACP to go alone in local government elections without consulting its branches. Thobela. Howard <[email protected]> -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
