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http://amadlandawonye.wikispaces.com/Plug-in+City
=What is a Plug-in City?=

__Problem__
Besides the **//[|Communist University]//**, there are related and overlapping distribution groups. Two of them are the SACP’s **//[|Umsebenzi Online]//** and the YCL’s **//[|The Bottomline]//**.

How to make these and other online publications available to those who are would cherish them? How to grow the lists of subscribers? These are the simple problems that we face.

Further, the CU was set up to stimulate dialogue, yet there is far too little express dialogue being generated by the CU. So we need not just subscribers, but talking, writing ones.

__Part of the solution__

 * //[|Archigram]//** is a group of London architects of the 1960s, a decade or two before the spread of the IBM PC. Plug-in City is one of their concepts. Plug-in City seems the right way to imagine how a large number of optional connections can be organised, randomised, mixed or matched.

Now, you can go to our **//virtual Plug-in City//** of connections, and, using the “promo boxes” and other quick aids, you can join as many as you wish of 30 groups (the number is still increasing).

The freedom is two-way. Your membership is reversible. Unsubscribing from any of the groups is a simple matter. Help is available. Everything is free. You can try and keep what out you want and discard what you don’t want or can’t use.

__Dialogue, the Holy Grail__
The YCL is happy that the **//[|YCLSA Discussion Forum]//** should be used as the companion electronic dialogue venue for the Communist University and Umsebenzi Online as well as The Bottomline. All of these are distributed publications.

The YCLSA Discussion Forum has gained more than 200 members in the last two weeks but it still needs some debaters. People are still shy, or they are there as spectators only. The group will grow to 1000 quite soon and it has the potential to be a significant piece of agitation.

Dialogue is the only way people are going to learn politics. It is also a very good way to learn to write. The International Solidarity groups are all set up for dialogue, too.

__Conclusion__
Go to **//Plug-in City//**. Join something. Start to dialogue!