cannot dowload the said files,may someone please download them all and send us as attachments
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]>wrote: > *National Democratic Revolution, Part 8* > > [image: Strategy and Tactics] > *Oliver Tambo, 1917-1993<http://www.anc.org.za/list_by.php?by=Oliver%20Tambo> > * > > *Strategy and Tactics* > > *“The art of revolutionary leadership consists in providing leadership to > the masses and not just to its most advanced elements… **what appears to > be 'militant' and 'revolutionary' can often be counter-revolutionary.”* > * * > *“The enemy is as aware as we are that the side that wins the allegiance > of the people, wins the struggle. It is naive to believe that oppressed and > beleaguered people cannot temporarily, even in large numbers, be won over by > fear, terror, lies, indoctrination, and provocation to treat liberators as > enemies. In fact history proves that without the most intensive all-round > political activity this is the more likely result. It is therefore all the > more vital that the revolutionary leadership is nation-wide and has its > roots both inside and outside the actual areas of combat. Above all, when > victory comes, it must not be a hollow one. To ensure this we must also > ensure that what is brought to power is not an army but the masses as a > whole at the head of which stands its organised political leadership.”* > * * > *“In the last resort it is only the success of the national democratic > revolution which - by destroying the existing social and economic > relationships - will bring with it a correction of the historical injustices > perpetrated against the indigenous majority…”* > > The above lines are taken from the ANC’s [Morogoro] Strategy and Tactics > document of 1969 (linked below). It can be taken as the idea of the National > Democratic Revolution (NDR) in a nutshell. What must be brought to power is > not an army, but the masses. > > Politics is in the subjective realm. Politics is about the essence of > subjectivity - freedom. But politics can only have an existence within the > limits of objective realities. > > Objectively, the NDR has a steadily-built organisational history of > personalities, of events, and of documents. It has worked within the several > class components, and at the same time changed by its action the balance of > class forces in South Africa. > > Next to the Freedom Charter, the original 1969 ANC Strategy and Tactics > document is the most prominent of all the NDR documents. In discussing the > military activities of Umkhonto we Siswe (MK), it outlines alliance politics > in terms that are sometimes crystal-clear, and sometimes not so clear. For > an example of the latter, the class nature of the enemy is not described in > very direct terms in the S&T document itself. Still, the Morogoro S&T is the > best one to use as the basis for a discussion of the subjective political > action of this period, and for some of its remarks on the underlying class > realities. > > The *new version of “Strategy and > Tactics”<http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/conf/conference52/index.html> > * passed at the 2007 52nd National Conference of the ANC at Polokwane > supplies a concise description of how, in the past, the enemy was defined, > thus (from paragraph 96 of that document): > > *“The liberation movement defined the enemy, on the other hand, as the > system of white minority domination with the white community being the > beneficiaries and defenders of this system. These in turn were made up of > workers, middle strata and capitalists. Monopoly capital was identified as > the chief enemy of the NDR.”* > > Unfortunately this clarity of the latest S&T document is only in relation > to the past. In the paragraphs that follow the above, it can be seen that > the current S&T rehabilitates the monopoly capitalists as part of > “concentric circles” of “drivers of change”. This new S&T was drafted by the > “1996 class project”, i.e. those who were removed from the leadership at the > same conference but who nevertheless managed to get their version of the S&T > passed. It holds out an imaginary scenario where the liberation movement > mediates and manages relations between all classes in a static, eternal and > practically class-neutral “National Democratic Society”. > > Whereas the 1969 S&T never mentioned any such static “National Democratic > Society” but was, on the contrary, unequivocally in favour of a bold > transfer of class power. *“In essence, a revolutionary policy is one which > holds out the quickest and most fundamental transformation and transfer of > power from one class to another,”* it said. > > *Please download and read the text via the following link**:* > *Strategy and Tactics, Morogoro, 1969, > ANC<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1210%2CStrategy%26Tactics%2CMorogoro%2C1969%2CANC.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> > * (5882 words) > * * > *Further reading:* > *Road to South African Freedom, 1962, > SACP<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1210a%2CTheRoadtoSAFreedom%2C1962%2CSACP.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> > * (18552 words) > *Disruptive Role of the PAC and United Front Failure, 1962, > Dadoo<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1210b%2CDisruptiveRoleofthePAC%2CWhytheUnitedFrontFailed%2CDadoo.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> > * (1020 words) > *Arusha Declaration, 1967, Nyerere > <https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1210c%2CArushaDeclaration%2C1967%2CNyerere.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> > *(7171 words) > > > > > -- > You are subscribed. 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