May+2006+Current

===This is the daily circulation of the Communist University, dated for the day on which it is to be sent out. It includes documents received from different organisations, notices of events, study texts, and a selection of items from the press. Click on an item to read it. To see the covering message that goes with these despatches, go to http://domza.net/===


 * Massism**
 * 2006-05-31, Pitfalls of National Consciousness, Frantz Fanon, 1963**
 * 2006-05-31, Acclamation of Zim Solidarity by 130 at Devonshire Hotel 17 May 06**


 * Leadership, Strategy**
 * 2006-05-30, COSATU GS Z Vavi, farewell address to outgoing NUM GS Gwede Mantashe**
 * 2006-05-30, COSATU strategy for Jobs and Poverty Campaign, 29 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-30, National Union of Mineworkers, Press Release, 28 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-30, Statement of the ANC National Executive Committee, 29 May 2006**


 * Far Out**
 * 2006-05-29, How many must die before Mdladlana speaks, Edwin Naidu, Sindy**
 * 2006-05-29, God Has Sex, Makes Big Box Office, Susan Block, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-05-29, Allen Ginsberg, Silly Liberal, Lenni Brenner, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-05-29, Understanding Peoples Power Seminar, Con Hill, 30 May 17h00**


 * No Talisman**
 * 2006-05-28, Stalinism and Bolshevism, Trotsky, 1937**
 * 2006-05-28, The State, Lenin, 1919**


 * Problematisation**
 * 2006-05-27, Swazi Labour Academy Manual and POA, Bongani Masuku**
 * 2006-05-27, Swazi Labour Academy Manual and Cover**


 * No Drum Majorettes**
 * 2006-05-26, African Socialism Revisited, Nkrumah, 1967**
 * 2006-05-26, COSATU CEC Media statement 25 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-26, SACP GS Nzimande, Options of working class relationship to state power**
 * 2006-05-26, Deputy President Jacob Zuma to NUM Congress 24 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-26, YCL Youth Month and 84th Anniversary Rally Khutsong 10h00 May 27**


 * Silver Lining**
 * 2006-05-25, Silver Lining, editorial on SACP discussion document, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-25, ANC not in crisis, Zuma at NUM 12th Congress, News24**
 * 2006-05-25, YCL input post Jacob Zuma rape trial, Castro Ngobese**
 * 2006-05-25, Global economy, apartheid plan, and Swazi economy, Masuku**
 * 2006-05-25, Theatre of the absurd, Liberty Holdings, Ann Crotty, Business Report**


 * Burning Questions**
 * 2006-05-24, 1902, Lenin, What Is To Be Done**
 * 2006-05-24, Report of Havana Marxist Conference, Thando Tshangela**
 * 2006-05-24, How Bush Brewed the Iran Crisis, PCR, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-05-24, Pensioners hit with batons and pepper spray, The Star**
 * 2006-05-24, ANC Gauteng campaign to revive branches, Makhura, Papo**


 * Thank God For Communists**
 * 2006-05-23, Thank God for communists, Jon Qwelane, News24**
 * 2006-05-23, SACP blames powerful presidency for ANC ills, Brown, Mde, B Day**
 * 2006-05-23, Tribalism a red herring to a leadership contest, Lekorotsoana, NUM**
 * 2006-05-23, Myth and African renaissance, Mike Berger, Letters, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-23, What About the Marshall Plan, Bill Blum, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-05-23, The Massacre of Cassinga, Piero Gleijeses**


 * A Week Is A Long Time In Politics**
 * 2006-05-22, SACP CC 19 and 20 May 2006 Press Statement**
 * 2006-05-22, COSATU CEC meeting, 22 to 24 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-22, SABC cans Mbeki film, Japhet Ncube, City Press**
 * 2006-05-22, SAPS ready to absorb the Scorpions, Mkhabela, City Press**
 * 2006-05-22, Launch of Gauteng ANC Imvuselelo Campaign, Hope Papo**
 * 2006-05-22, Zionist rain of death on Sudan, Xymphora**


 * For the Record**
 * 2006-05-21, SACP Jhb Central Draft Minutes 23 Apr and Agenda 21 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-21, SACP GS to COSATU General Strike, 18 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-21, COSATU one day strike hits mines sector hard, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-21, Striker orgy of destruction will exhaust goodwill, Terry Bell, B Rep**
 * 2006-05-21, Mzi Khumalo in new BEE share sale dwang, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-21, Chavez Takes London, Counterpunch**


 * Solidarity Forever**
 * 2006-05-20, CEPPWAWU proposes solidarity action with SATAWU**
 * 2006-05-20, US Steelworkers in mutual support and action with SA TU, CEPPWAWU**
 * 2006-05-20, Jubilee South Africa collapse, George Dor and MP Giyose**


 * Campaigns and Patronising Projects**
 * 2006-05-19, COSATU Jobs and Poverty Campaign General Strike 18 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-19, Three Sources & Three Component parts of Marxism, Lenin, 1913**
 * 2006-05-19, Peter Dwyer and the Right to Work campaign**
 * 2006-05-19, The original Right to Work campaign, from Denver Walker**
 * 2006-05-19, Fidel refutes Forbes**
 * 2006-05-19, Black Reflection 13 June 2006**


 * General Strike, State Power**
 * 2006-05-18, Bua Komanisi V5 No 1, Special Edition on State Power**
 * 2006-05-18, Umsebenzi Online, V5, No. 56, 17 May, General Strike, State Power with PDF**
 * 2006-05-18, COSATU Weekly General Strike Special 17 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-18,AIDC Right to Work campaign anti ANC and COSATU**


 * World Class, Part One**
 * 2006-05-17, The Mass Strike compilation, C1, 4 and 8, Luxemburg, 1906**
 * 2006-05-17, SACP, COSATU National Stayaway Flyer for 18 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-17, 40 held after Cape Town rampage, News24**
 * 2006-05-17, Joint Statement of CEPPWAWU and USW**


 * World Class, Part Two**
 * 2006-05-17, Denied Disneyworld for taking the Mickey, Shelley Banjo, The Star**
 * 2006-05-17, Chavez ridicules Washington weapons ban, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-17, Only special ANC indaba will end politics of smear, Brown, B Day**
 * 2006-05-17, Bash government and flourish, Sandile Memela, Business Day**


 * Embedded**
 * 2006-05-16, COSATU General Strike, Jobs and Poverty Campaign, 18 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-16, ANC NEC, Full Resumption of Duties by ANC Dep Pres Zuma**
 * 2006-05-16, SACP statement on the article in Business Day of 15 May 2006**
 * 2006-05-16, SACP set to grill Kasrils on role in Zuma trial, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-16, Zuma was a victim of conspiracy, Jon Qwelane, News24**
 * 2006-05-16, Meeting, Future of Workers Library and Newtown, 14h00 May 19**


 * Class Confirmed**
 * 2006-05-15, Class Dismissed, Valerie S-DA, Peter Mclaren**
 * 2006-05-15, Leave private life out of this, David Masondo, Sunday Times**
 * 2006-05-15, State and intellectuals in lethal dance, Robert Greig, Sindy**
 * 2006-05-15, NGOs and the Imperial Uses of Philanthropy, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-05-15, The Indian Road, red panchayats, dual power, Counterpunch**


 * Procedure, Plot, Looting, and Critical Pedagogy**
 * 2006-05-14, Ngcuka uses lies and deception, ANCYL, News24**
 * 2006-05-14, President Ahmadinejad of Iran, letter to Bush, Asia Times**
 * 2006-05-14, Travelling Critique, Peter McLaren, Paulo Freire Institute**
 * 2006-05-14, SACP Constitution**
 * 2006-05-14, Procedure of Meetings, Rules of Debate, Hannington, 1950**


 * Cease Fire on the Cities**
 * 2006-05-13, Democratic institutions on a firm footing, ANC Today**
 * 2006-05-13, Bolivia targets land for nationalisation, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-13, Mike Davis, Green Zones and Slum Cities, Pt 2, Tomdispatch**
 * 2006-05-13, Hamas and Israeli Right to Exist, Tilley, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-05-13, Welcoming President Hugo Chavez To London, Ken Livingstone**
 * 2006-05-13, Cease Fire Annual General Meeting 23 May 2006**


 * Proletarians and Bourgeois**
 * 2006-05-12, Communist Manifesto Pt 1, Bourgeois and Proletarians, Karl Marx**
 * 2006-05-12, COSATU GS Z Vavi, Role of Government, input to CHAMSA**
 * 2006-05-12, COSATU memorandum on WTO handed to US Embassy**
 * 2006-05-12, SAMWU Johannesburg Strike Statement**
 * 2006-05-12, ANCYL wants Zuma for president, News24**


 * Comrade Wolf**
 * 2006-05-11, Putin hits out at Comrade Wolf in Washington, The Guardian**
 * 2006-05-11, Jobs and Poverty Campaign 11 May 2006, COSATU Media alert**
 * 2006-05-11, SATAWU rejects Employers conditions**
 * 2006-05-11, When the wheel of fortune turns, Brown and Mde, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-11, TAC statement on verdict in Jacob Zuma trial**
 * 2006-05-11, SACP, COSATU, ANC, tributes to Jimmy Seepe**


 * Skowhegan**
 * 2006-05-10, The Prince, Machiavelli, 1512**
 * 2006-05-10, Sappi workers demonstrate at Boston, USA HQ, USW**
 * 2006-05-10, NUMSA pickets pave way for general strike next week**
 * 2006-05-10, Not black and white at Native Club, Prof Sipho Seepe, B Day**
 * 2006-05-10, Raymond Suttner, Sacred Word, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-10, SACP and COSATU Statements on Zuma apology**


 * Verdict: Not Guilty!**
 * 2006-05-09, Alliance on judgment, ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma case**
 * 2006-05-09, YCL statement on the ANC Deputy President rape trial verdict**
 * 2006-05-09, The plot to get Zuma, Jon Qwelane, News24**
 * 2006-05-09, United Steelworkers rally to demand justice at SAPPI USA**
 * 2006-05-09, South Africa today according to Dr Dale T McKinley**


 * Sic Transit**
 * 2006-05-08, SACP may stick oar into ANC succession race, Sunday Times**
 * 2006-05-08, Tony Hall on the Debaters**
 * 2006-05-08, Security employers dig in their heels, Irene Louw, City Press**
 * 2006-05-08, Empowerment venture kicks off, Siyabulela Qoza, City Press**


 * No Holds Barred**
 * 2006-05-07, Swaziland, No Holds Barred, Mswati Heresy, Gondo Gushongo**
 * 2006-05-07, US Descent Into Hell Has Begun, Tony Swindell, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-05-07, Defying the defiance campaign, YCL and ASGISA, Floyd Shivambu**
 * 2006-05-07, Block Zuma for politico-economic stability, Tony Holiday, Cape Times**
 * 2006-05-07, Cronin, The People Shall Govern, Transformation and State**


 * Women For War**
 * 2006-05-06, British Foreign Secretary Straw replaced, The Guardian**
 * 2006-05-06, Star misleading headline, COSATU GS Zwelinzima Vavi**
 * 2006-05-06, Update on SATAWU**
 * 2006-05-06, POPCRU calls for police restraint in security guards dispute**
 * 2006-05-06, Ngcuka heads first major BEE Property Charter deal, B Day**
 * 2006-05-06, Constitution, national social compact, Thabo Mbeki, ANC Today**


 * CU in Cuba!**
 * 2006-05-05, Umsebenzi Online, Vol 5, No. 55, May Day and reconciliation in democratic South Africa**
 * 2006-05-05, Rant misrepresents SACP, Malesela Maleka, Business Day**
 * 2006-05-05, Fundraising concert in aid of Jacob Zuma**
 * 2006-05-05, CSVR Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum public meeting**
 * 2006-05-05, No to NAMA, NEDLAC Community Constituency**
 * 2006-05-05, Karl Marx CXXI Cuba Event May 3 to 6, 2006**


 * TCP Better Than WTO**
 * 2006-05-04, Joint Cuba Venezuela Bolivia communique on TCP**
 * 2006-05-04, Bolivia joins, signs declaration with Cuba and Venezuela 060429**
 * 2006-05-04, Bolivarian Alternative, agreement between 3 Presidents, 060429**
 * 2006-05-04, Bolivia Military Told to Occupy Gas Fields, Yahoo News**
 * 2006-05-04, Jubilation over hydrocarbons nationalization in Bolivia, Granma**
 * 2006-05-04, Our members and leaders are being killed, Satawu,The Star**
 * 2006-05-04, The colour of a searching mind, Sipho Seepe, Business Day**


 * Law of Rule**
 * 2006-05-03, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli, 1512**
 * 2006-05-03, Cheche Selepe on law, materialism, liberation and Zuma**
 * 2006-05-03, Widespread support for beleaguered Zuma, The Star**
 * 2006-05-03, Disgruntled guards go on the rampage, The Star**
 * 2006-05-03, Khutsong conundrum, editorial, The Star**


 * Commune or Constitution?**
 * 2006-05-02, Constitutional amendment, Rob Amato, Sindy**
 * 2006-05-02, Who should wield ultimate power, Mpumelelo Mkhabela, City Press**


 * A Cat Can Look at a King**
 * 2006-05-01, Nothing in the kitty but catshit, Ben Tripp, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-05-01, Surprise Mlambo-Ngcuka Conference on Women, Lowe-Morna, Sindy**


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