Comrades you are arguing semantics, As it has been noted by another comrade, the name being general secretary or secretary general or national secretary holds no necessary tie to a given role within an organisation, the constitution defines the roles of each. In terms of trying to standardise terminology to avoid confusion certain names have a tendency to be adopted, such as general secretary for the head of a communist party, which is common across many countries. In the YCL Britain the head is a GS not a NS, however the role is identical practically to that of the NS of our YCL. One of the reason the YCL has a NS rather then a GS is because it was to highlight the leading role the SACP has in guiding the direction of the YCL as our parent organisation. Consider this, if the YCL was to alter the NS title to GS do you think it would effect the working relationship we have with the SACP?
As far as branches are concerned, the BS (branch secretary) is the ‘head’ of the branch, and the chairperson chairs the meetings. However a Branch Executive Committee should be acting as a collective and will be using there combined energies for the completion of aims and objectives If comrades wish to know the roles of there leaders simply read the constitution and working documents of that organisation and it will be there. This forum over the past few months has started to deteriorate to the point where it no longer is useful, with name calling rather then debate the preferred method of communication. Although this forum is open and has non YCL members it does not mean we cannot robustly discuss the issues of the day weather playing devils advocate or engaging with those of differing opinions. Shooting people down rather then addressing the issues is a tactic of Helen Zille and the DA not of a disciplined organisation on the left For socialism in our lifetime Brendan Lee -- 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] .
