SACP 2009 End of the Year Statement

SACP 2009 End of the Year Statement

29 December 2009

The SACP takes this opportunity to wish all South Africans especially the working class and the poor a restful and enjoyable festive season and a happy new year. The toiling masses of our people deserve this rest as they are not only the backbone and engine of the South African economy but also the backbone of the struggle to deepen our democracy. Without the decisive leadership of the working class our democracy will forever remained threatened.

As we go into the New Year, the working class, like it did during the struggle against apartheid, must ensure that it remains at the head of the struggle to consolidate our democracy. To this end the workers and the poor of our country have a duty to remain vigilant and fight against all the threats to our hard earned democracy. Just like there would have not been victory against apartheid without the working class being at the head of our struggle, there will be no deepening and consolidation of our democracy without the working class and the poor of this country playing a leading role in that regard.

Fridge Gods

Blog volunteers needed; DISQUS for Comments

Dear Comrades of the Jhb Central Branch,

Best wishes to all of you this festive season.

The Jhb Central Blog

You know that the Johannesburg Central Branch has its own e-mail discussion Google Group (this one).

You may not know that Johannesburg Central also has its own blog. The blog is at:

http://sacp-jcb.blogspot.com/

The Jhb Central blog has hardly been used. It needs some more bloggers (Blog Authors).

Please may I have some volunteers from among you to be Blog Authors of this blog?

It is not very much different from sending an e-mail to our Google Group. In fact the blog is set so that all the blog posts go to the Google Group as e-mails, automatically.

So don’t be shy. Volunteer by replying to this message on the Google Group, or to me at dominic.tweedie@gmail.com.

"Chilling"

Johannesburg Central Blog

Dear Comrades of Johannesburg Central Branch,

Since I have been asked to assist the Linda Jabane District by setting up a blog, connected to an e-mail forum, I have now added a blog to the Johannesburg Central Branch e-mils forum, so that you have the same set-up as the district.

This is the first post to the new blog. You are most likely receiving it as an e-mail opn our usual forum. You can debate it there like any other contribution to that e-mail forum.

If you want to see the blog site itself, go to http://sacp-jcb.blogspot.com/. If it is working the way it is supposed to work, then it should be possible for you to make comments on the blog.

Just to show what is possible, I have uploaded a document to the web site of our e-mail forum, and linked it below. It is Chapter 2 of Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".

I could as well have created a new page on that web site, and linked to that page. In other words, you have the option of either creating web pages, or else uploading files for future downloading, as I have done here.

This is a test. Please feel free to respond to it, whether with e-mail to the group, or in "Comments" on the public blog.

Links:

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 2

Domza, VC!