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On 30 Dec 2010, at 2:31 PM, Lazola Ndamase <[email protected]> wrote: > Don’t just wish for a happy new year: Fight for it > > 30 December 2010 > > Coming from a year of World Cup joy and tears for lack of Free > Education, it is not surprising that we are eager to celebrate the end > of 2010 and mark the beginning of 2011. We, those of the poor, bear > the scars of financial exclusions, grinding poverty, unemployment and > disease of the past year. We have, in the same year, seen the rise of > the sushi elite, Tenderpreneurs, the new tendency with its > anti-communism, taste for lavish lifestyles even by the most > left-leaning of Ministers, thousands of unemployed thrown into the > streets and thousands of students spewed into street corners by an > ever intransigent higher education system. Things must not be allowed > to go on in this way in 2011. > > In the past year alone, we have also seen restrained but heroic > working class struggles – from the Free Education campaign mounted by > thousands of students at the beginning of the year to the public > service strike mid-year. The past year alone, has fixed the matter > firmly in the eyes of all who do not deliberately close their eyes > that the state cannot and will never be an impartial referee in > ongoing class struggles, it takes one side and that has been the side > of the rich capitalist class in the past year. If 2011 has to be a > happy new-year, a radical shift is needed. > > We will not only wish a happy new year to the working class and the > poor, but will pose a challenge which we believe will lead to a REALLY > happy new year for the poor. We call on the working class to make 2011 > a happy new year through taking power with their own hands by fighting > for: free education, increased access to institutions of higher > learning, better salaries, full employment, better and more houses, > nationalization – not bailouts, but most importantly to defeat > capitalism and abolish private property. If the working class and poor > do not fight for the realization of these, 2011 will certainly NOT be > a happy new year but will once more be a year of disappointment and > dashed dreams. > > As we drink cheap whiskies and beers, we should gaze up towards the > rich as they down expensive whiskies and tell ourselves that they do > so at the expense of the majority. As we are squashed in > accident-prone overloaded taxis to the beach, we should look to the > expensive air-conditioned German cars driven by the rich and tell > ourselves those are products of the sweat of the working class whose > hard-work it cannot enjoy. As we braai our Christmas meat leftovers, > we should look at the Sushi enjoyed by the rich and tell ourselves > this will not take place the next year. As we enjoy our little savings > of the past year, we should watch the rich buy willy-nilly with no > limit with the money it stole from the working class as profits and > tell ourselves this could have been used for free education. > > We will tell ourselves in the new year that we will not only wish for > a happy new year, but we will fight for it. We will ensure that we > destroy all that ensures that we remain poor and cannot afford basic > necessities. We will ensure, like those who fought apartheid that we > will fight for a better economic and educational future, one that will > be filled with happy new years’, one after the other, without the need > for consistent wishes at the beginning of every year. As a start, our > organization will launch a most ferocious free education campaign from > the moment institutions open with a determination that no student must > be excluded from institutions for lack of funds. The achievement of > all these goals to us will constitute a truly happy new year. > > Nonetheless, we wish everybody a happy and prosperous new year. > > For details Contact > Mbulelo Mandlana (President) > 071 879 3408 > > Or > > Lazola Ndamase (Secretary General) > 082 679 8718 > > -- > 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. 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