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Subject: Re: [CU] African Revolutionary Writers series shaping, but
needs help
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:37:51 +0200
From: Dominic.Tweedie <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Dear Jim Campbell, good comrade from over the ocean,
Thank you for your wonderful offer of the book of Jack O'Dell's writings.
Thank you for remembering Johnny Mfanafuthi Makatini. I can tell you
that the late Cde Johnny's remains were re-interred in an *official
ceremony*
<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Th4skVDWxAJ:www.thepresidency.gov.za/president/pr/2010/pr0216118.htm+Johnny+Makatini&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=za>
in South African soil in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal earlier this
year, on 27 February 2010. The President of our Republic made the eulogy
which can be found *here*
<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0ZsJsThNXRMJ:www.thepresidency.gov.za/president/sp/2010/sp02271453.htm+Johnny+Makatini&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=za>.
Not all of the young comrades who follow these discussions will know
much of Cde Johnny Makatini but if they are curious they can look at the
ANC *page here*
<http://www.anc.org.za/search2.php?search=Makatini&sa=GO>. Johnny
Makatini served the movement well in New York where he successfully
represented us in the highest diplomatic circles. He was a legend in his
lifetime and he deserves to be remembered for the service he gave to
South Africa, and not least for the friendships that he made on the way,
including with Jesse Jackson and Jack O'Dell.
Now coming back to your kind donation, Cde Jim. I am at a loss. I refuse
to accept the book and keep it at my house. I want the comrades to tell
me what to do.
You see, the Communist University is a vagabond University. It has no
place to call home. It exists in dialogue, whether by e-mails or when we
gather in borrowed rooms. It is a republic of letters. It is a committee
of correspondence. It has no safe place to keep books, and no librarian
to curate any books and to hold them available for scholars.
I would like the YCLSA comrades, including but not limited to *Castro
Ngobese* and *Gugu Ndima*, to offer their advice as to what to do with
this kind gift of a hard-copy revolutionary book.
Hence I am also going to re-post this message on the YCLSA's dedicated
discussion forum.
For your information Cde Jim the CU African Revolutionary Writers series
is being published in parallel on another blog, based in England, *here*
<http://arsnotoria.blogspot.com/>, where the owner of the blog, Phil
Hall, is also translating African stuff, including poetry, from Spanish
and Portuguese.
The struggle continues. I am still looking for electronic copies of
post-WW2 writings of Paul Robeson and W E B Du Bois, and a complete
electronic copy of Malcolm X's "By Any Means Necessary" speech, and a
good electronic sample of Henry Winston's writings w. r. t. Imperialism
and anti-colonialism, if possible.
With best wishes,
Dominic, a k a "VC"
On 20 September 2010 19:51, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Dear Comrade Dominic Tweedie and friends,
I hope that the African Revolutionary Writers Series
is continuing to develop in content as well as in outreach.
In a telephone conversation last night with an Mzee
of our Freedom Movement in the USA, Jack O'Dell, I
mentioned this work you are doing with the African Revolutioinary
Writers Series in South Africa and its instructive, central
relationship, not only to understanding our mutual histories
and struggles, but also, for our young people and their urgent
need to know, understand and learn from this relationship. He
was quite impressed and supportive, then went on to share
with me that he had worked with Johnnie Makatini during
the peroid Johnnie Makatini worked on International Affairs
for the ANC at the United Nations in New York . Later,
accompanied by Jesse Jackson, they attended his funeral in
Lusaka, Zambia in the late 1980s. Jack O'Dell is one of the
key, strategic participants in our Freedom Movement in the
USA.
I would like to send you a copy of his book for the hard
copy library of the African Revolutionary Writers Series. It is
titled, CLIMBIN' JACOB'S LADDER: The BLACK FREEDOM
MOVEMENT WRITINGS of JACK O'DELL, edited by NIKHIL
PAL SINGH, University of California Press, 2010.
Please share with me an address to which I can post this.
In friendship and solidarity.
Jim Campbell
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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