Bray of Bush

2005 - 12 - 23 Dear Comrades, George Bush II the Small-Minded has banned the Cuban Baseball team from the first international tournament of that game (not the previous “World Series” which was arrogantly confined to the USA and Canada). Dave Zirin the revolutionary sports journalist goes up with a good denunciation in Counterpunch. Wiseman Khuzwayo has the job of fancying up the talk of “BEE coming of age”. If this means it is no longer considered innocent (but rather guilty) then these boosters may be saying something of the truth. At least Cde. Wiseman reports what SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande had to say on the subject: “an aggressive sponsorship of certain sections of the black middle class by various key financial conglomerates of domestic capital”. Again from Counterpunch, here is a good description of what the plea-bargaining system that is creeping into South African law is really all about, as seen fully-developed in its homeland, the USA. A letter in the Business Day shows how state-monopoly capitalism works at the micro level. The class struggle never stops. Woolworths workers are on strike and COSATU is with them. Yours in struggle,

Dominic Links (5): 1. Bray of Pigs, Bush v Beisbol Cubano, Counterpunch (2 pages) 2. Khuzwayo, BEE Boosterism, Business Report (2 pages) 3. Presumed Guilty, US plea-bargaining system, Roberts, Cpunch (2 pages) 4. Odd bedfellows, firms, police and NPA, Business Day (1 page) 5. Zwelinzima Vavi to join picket line at Woolworths today (1 page)