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On 30 Dec 2010, at 7:30 PM, "Richard Neva" <[email protected]> wrote: > Lazola, It took a lifetime of working in a state penitentiary in America to > know all about racism. I left there in retirement and always got out safe > because I spent time listening to the inmates and empathizing with them. > America is a lock up country and poor people of color are the target as > elsewhere. I am so glad I found your web site and hope to contribute soon. I > too am a Marxist Communist and I support the world revolution of the poor > dispossessed. I want to learn more about Africa and maybe visit some day and > join you in your daily struggle for survival! I am with you in heart and > spirit! Comrade Richard > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cedric Gina" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "yclsa-eom-forum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:15 AM > Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] SASCO Says make yourselves a happy new year > > > Powerful > > Sent from my iPad > > 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. 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