I have read the post on the Save Our SABC group of the Julius Malema's comments about the media today (the SABC is ours but everyone else can walk etc.) and Floyd Shivambu's ANCYL press release condemning the Daily Star.
It was a pretty awful story, but I should point out that no-one in Britain takes the Daily Star seriously. It's the second-lowest quality red-top tabloid, after the Mirror and the Sun, better only than the Daily Sport, which can hardly be called a newspaper. The ANCYL should try reading the Morning Star instead (http://morningstaronline.co.uk<http://morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php> ). As comrade Domza VC rightly points out, the Daily Star is a right-wing newspaper mainly read by members of the lumpen proletariat. It is owned by a man named Richard Desmond, a former 'barrow boy' (a hawker) from the East End of London whose main business now is pornography. He bought the Daily Star so that he could fill it with adverts for his pornographic phone lines and magazines. Desmond picked up the Daily Express as part of the purchase. The Express is just as full of right-wing rubbish as the Daily Star but is marketed to the middle class. It is a carbon-copy of the Daily Mail, which openly supported the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s. There is sniping at South Africa from various quarters here. It is part of a larger imperialist and anti-communist discourse. The critics include black people, including Wiliam Gumede, a South African who has written a book about Thabo Mbeki along with his frequent columns for the liberal Guardian newspaper. It may be that Julius Malema and co. are picking on easy targets. This press release is certainly retrospective justification of Malema's outburst against the BBC's Joshua Fisher. Maybe the media should do as Malema says and walk, ignoring his press conferences. Maybe that would make him happier than being quoted like a big-shot in newspapers on the other side of the world. As Buti Manamela has pointed out in an oblique way, and Jacob Zuma in a most direct way, Julius Malema has abandoned the ANC's principle of non-racialism. He should "go out" of Luthuli House himself and join the PAC or something. James Tweedie Tenerife On 10 April 2010 04:42, sabelo gina <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Comrade, > > I hope that my posting of that newspaper article from Britain does not > suggest that I supported what was said in the "revolutionary house", I fully > agree with the ANC statement that Julius Malema leadership position must > have prepared him to deal with that kind of things. > > I would have wanted comrades to engage with those views in the British > media away from the incident that happened in the "revolutionary house" > > Regards, > > > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Monwabisi Moneni < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> It is clear you've been following these discussions comrade Floyd so lets >> hear your side of the story, and anyway if you took offense of what the >> jerno was doing (saying) why were you laughing while Julius because of his >> intolerant behavior made a remark that the jerno must not... If you think >> British working class regardless of their race or political affiliation >> should be labeled agents, imperialist, however what I to my observations, >> you Julius and a few of YL Leaders are aspirant bourgeoisie if not Lumpen >> ones. >> >> I may agree with you that Cader Domza may get out of line some times, I >> may also have some issues in the manner he pursue some of the debates, but >> with you and the tendencies of the YL elites I fully agree, while it >> should be noted for me its not personal. >> >> Yes its true some of the debated are genuine, but you are all out of order >> by allowing this young boy to carry on this way. >> >> I wander what is your conscious saying to you as you, as last time I >> remember calling yourself a Communist. >> >> Hoping you will respond, in full content, put us into par rather than your >> usual staging and grand standing on media, comrades to comrades. >> >> Well tell me again, what does Malema know about revolution, and who and >> how should it be respected I will await your response. >> > Comrade Botipe is in order. 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