Memory

Don’t forget the SACP Johannesburg Central Branch Freedom Day Party, tomorrow at 13h00 at 93 Regent Street, Bellevue. The entrance fee of R20 includes food. Drinks will be available for a cash bar. The Johannesburg YCL meets tonight to discuss excerpts from Kwame Nkrumah’s “Neo-colonialism, Last Stage of Imperialism”. The venue is SATAWU offices, Old Mutual Building, 29 Kerk Street, between Loveday and Harrison, time 17h00. Their next session will be on Wedenesday, May 3, at the same time and place. The topic will be Lenin’s “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” (see link below). SATAWU announces: “Security officers currently in dispute with employers over wage increases for the current financial year will be holding marches across the country (today), 26 April. The protest marches will be held in Pretoria, Durban, East London , Bloemfontein and Polokwane, while on Thursday, SATAWU leaders will address workers during the memorial service for the slain chairperson of the local security committee in Langa, Cde. Sibongile Tutu. He was killed on Monday in the early hours of the morning.” COSATU reminds of Rights and Recourse on SABC 3 at 12h00. Comrade Rudi Dicks will be on, talking on the topic of dismissals and notice periods. The revolution in Nepal is proceeding in the manner that students of, say, Marx’s “Class Struggles in France” and other such works would expect. The weak and vacillating allies are weakening and vacillating at the normal moment. The communists are pushing the revolution further and are determined to get rid of the king (see link). The king is busy scheming with foreign powers to sell his country. Swazis are watching. Swaziland Solidarity Network has issued what amounts to a news bulletin (linked). Perhaps our SSN comrades should date these bulletins and number them, even if they are not yet appearing regularly? What happened in Rwanda in 1994 while South Africa was preoccupied with its liberation election? There is a Hollywood Imperialist version. Linked is an article by an African eye-witness suggesting that the Hollywood version is not to be trusted, to say the least. On our Freedom Day tomorrow, which celebrates the anniversary of our 1994 liberation election, Constitution Hill is organising public drumming circles, at 10h00 and 11h00. Let’s hope the judges are all there in a line in their dresses, sending it with the drums! On May 3rd they will be hosting the launch of a “Memory Project” (see link). Links: 1916, Lenin, Imperialism, Highest Stage of Capitalism (3696 words) Nepal Maoists reject king, announce blockade of capital (316 words) Unban Swaziland parties – no more public relations games, SSN (729 words) Setting the Hotel Rwanda record straight, Deme, Counterpunch (939 words) Memory Project Exhibition Opening, 18h00 May 3 Con Hill (Notice)