February+2008+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 messages that go along with these despatches, go to http://domza.blogspot.com/===

2008-02-29, COSATU Central Executive Committee, 25-27 February 2008**
 * The Central and the Concrete
 * 2008-02-29, Erwin keeps South Africa in the dark, James Myburgh, Politicsweb**
 * 2008-02-29, Conspiracy Theory and Fears of Betrayal, Counterpunch**


 * Losing The Plot**
 * 2008-02-28, DSO Browse report illegal – JSCI, Sapa, Politicsweb**
 * 2008-02-28, Varsity workers fed meat with urine, Sapa, Sowetan**
 * 2008-02-28, SADTU calls for enquiry into Free State University racism**
 * 2008-02-28, Varsity workers march against video, Sapa, IOL**
 * 2008-02-28, Race video makers face charges, News24**


 * Truth Will Out**
 * 2008-02-27, Confessions of a Gitmo Guard, Debbie Nathan, Counterpunch**
 * 2008-02-27, Willie Madisha, COSATU Media Release and Commission Report**
 * 2008-02-27, Special Browse Mole Consolidated Report, COSATU Media Release**
 * 2008-02-27, ANC National Working Committee Statement, 25 February 2008**
 * 2008-02-27, SACP North-West PEC Media Release, 26 February 2008**
 * 2008-02-27, Huge crowd attends MDC election campaign launch**


 * Leninism or Marxism?**
 * 2008-02-26, SACP Western Cape PEC Lekgotla Statement, 25 February 2008**
 * 2008-02-26, Leninism or Marxism, Rosa Luxemburg, 1904**


 * Money and Skin**
 * 2008-02-25, Capital Volume 1, C3, Money, Karl Marx, 1867**
 * 2008-02-25, Xenophobes in judiciary need transforming, Carmel Rickard, Weekender**
 * 2008-02-25, Race, Zuma, journalists and strawberry pie, Ray Hartley, Times blogs**
 * 2008-02-25, White journalists left out in the cold, Fiona Forde, Sunday Independent**
 * 2008-02-25, Makoe makes feathers fly, Karen Bliksem, Sunday Independent**
 * 2008-02-25, Mushrooming Clouds Hang Over McCain, Alex Cockburn, Counterpunch**
 * 2008-02-25, Watching the US Presidential Campaign from Havana, Fidel Castro, Counterpunch**


 * Xenophobia**
 * 2008-02-23, Attacks on foreigners organised, victims arrested, C Times, Citizen**
 * 2008-02-23, COSATU Gauteng, first 2008 Province Executive Committee**
 * 2008-02-23, NUM NEC pronouncements, NUM Media Release**
 * 2008-02-23, Trevor in Wonderland, Barry Sergeant, Fear and Loathing, Moneyweb**
 * 2008-02-23, A new SACP purge, Rapule Tabane, Mail and Guardian**


 * Proletarian Organisations Comment on the Budget**
 * 2008-02-22, SACP Statement on 2008-9 Budget, 20 February 2008**
 * 2008-02-22, Peoples Budget Response to Budget Speech**
 * 2008-02-22, SAMWU statement on the budget**
 * 2008-02-22, Response to the 2008 Budget Speech, NEHAWU Media Release**
 * 2008-02-22, Response to the 2008 Budget Speech, YCL Media Release**


 * Abasebenzi**
 * [|2008-02-22, Umsebenzi Online, V7, 3, 20 February 2008]**
 * 2008-02-22, NAMA 11 Trade Union response to NAMA draft modalities, COSATU**
 * 2008-02-22, Goodbye Trevor, Felicity Duncan, Moneyweb**


 * An Immense University**
 * 2008-02-21, Message from the Commander in Chief**
 * 2008-02-21, Zimbabwe election candidates, House of Assembly and Senate**
 * 2008-02-21, Court makes city evictions tougher, Chantelle Benjamin, B Day**
 * 2008-02-21, Zuma never asked for his day in court, Mduduzi Dlamini, Star**


 * Bolsheviki!**
 * 2008-02-19, Lenin, 1904, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Compilation**
 * 2008-02-19, Eskom needs private power station, Samantha Enslin-Payne, B Report**
 * 2008-02-19, Coal markets rocked by Eskom, Mathabo le Roux, Business Day**
 * 2008-02-19, Shortlisting of corruption tainted company, Enslin-Payne, B Report**
 * 2008-02-19, Political ties weigh on Ngcuka Vodacom bid, Thabiso Mochiko, B Report**
 * 2008-02-19, Zimbabwe election of sorts, Editorial, The Zimbabwe Guardian**
 * 2008-02-19, Peoples Budget Coalition 33-page 2008 PDF download**


 * Zimbabwean Workers, Vote!**
 * 2008-02-18, ZCTU threatens Makoni, Ezekiel Chiwara, Zimbabwe Guardian**
 * 2008-02-18, Manuel seeks court order to gag activist, C Terreblanche, Sindy**
 * 2008-02-18, Capital Volume 1, C2, Exchange, Karl Marx, 1867**
 * [|2008-02-18, CU of Acton, London, Value, Price and Profit, 20h30, 19 March 2008]**


 * What's Going On?**
 * 2008-02-17, What are the SAPS doing, SACP Press Statement**
 * 2008-02-17, Behind China move on Rio, Richard McGregor, Business Day Weekender**
 * 2008-02-17, Accountability in unequal measures, Carmel Rickard, Weekender**
 * 2008-02-17, Pandor has wrong people pledging, Rehana Rossouw, Weekender**
 * 2008-02-17, Sequel to school pledge outrage, Sue Blaine, Weekender**


 * Getting on with it**
 * 2008-02-16, ANC to exit Eskom deals, Stefaans Brümmer, Mail & Guardian**
 * 2008-02-16, Our languages matter, ANC President Jacob Zuma, ANC Today**
 * 2008-02-16, Modise is a victim of trade-off gone wrong, SABC**


 * It’s the coal, stupid!**
 * 2008-02-15, Emergency coal boost will cost Eskom R11bn, M le Roux, B Day**
 * 2008-02-15, Anatomy of a catastrophe, Newmarch and Donnelly, MGO**
 * 2008-02-15, Energy crisis gives Rio doubt on Coega, Mathabo le Roux, B Day**
 * 2008-02-15, Eskom on track to boost power output, Louise Flanagan, Star**
 * 2008-02-15, Patch up wounds or we bleed to death, E L Mndenge, Star**
 * 2008-02-15, Witch-hunt ties union principles to the stake, Terry Bell, B Report**


 * Which Side Are You On?**
 * 2008-02-14, Dissolution of the DSO (Scorpions), SACP Media Release**
 * 2008-02-14, Epoch of incredulity and season of darkness, Sipho Seepe, B Day**
 * 2008-02-14, City of Cape Town interdicted against disciplining 107 Cops, SAMWU**
 * 2008-02-14, Zeal for intervention is imperialism, Simon Jenkins, Guardian**


 * Blank Pages in History Should Not Be Allowed**
 * 2008-02-13, Tony Ehrenreich, a renegade of the new epoch, SACP, W Cape**
 * 2008-02-13, Statement of MDC Pres Tsvangirai plus Media Alert for 13 February 2008**
 * 2008-02-13, La Lucha Continua, Story of Fidel Castro, Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch**
 * 2008-02-13, Beggars Collide, Ben Tripp, Counterpunch**
 * 2008-02-13, Snout in the trough for overeaters, not leaders, Ann Crotty, B Report**


 * What is to be done?**
 * 2008-02-12, Lenin, 1902, What Is To Be Done, Compilation**
 * 2008-02-12, NUM warns Eskom of its unilateralism, NUM Media Release**
 * 2008-02-12, Eskom documents show business knew of crisis, Louise Flanagan, Star**
 * 2008-02-12, Eskom's Proposed Solutions de-euphemised by the CU**
 * 2008-02-12, Uranium Road, film, 18h00, Wits Senate House, 18 February 2008**


 * Commodities**
 * 2008-02-11, Capital Volume 1, C1, Commodities, abridged, 1867**
 * 2008-02-11, Ghost of Enron calls to haunt these dark days, Ernie Moore, Sindy**
 * 2008-02-11, Biofuels, a cure worse than disease, Steve Connor, Sindy**
 * 2008-02-11, Mbeki fight-back slated, Moshoeshoe Monare, Sibusiso Ngalwa, Sindy**


 * Power Struggle**
 * 2008-02-10, Why the Alcan deal does not compute, Mathabo Le Roux, Weekender**
 * 2008-02-10, If More CO2 is Bad… Then What, Robert Bryce, Counterpunch**
 * 2008-02-10, Tanzania leader names new premier, BBC News, Africa**
 * 2008-02-10, Cabinet dissolved, Angel Navuri, Dodoma, Tanzania, IPP Media**


 * Quick Reaction**
 * 2008-02-09, On State of the Nation Address, FAWU Media Release**
 * 2008-02-09, Main thrust of Mbeki SONA welcome, SACP Media Release**
 * 2008-02-09, State of the Nation Address, COSATU Media Release**
 * 2008-02-09, Response to the 2008 SONA, NEHAWU Media Release**
 * 2008-02-09, Mbeki speech a failure, now people must decide, Zille, DA, Politicsweb**


 * Reform or Revolution?**
 * 2008-02-09, ANC Strategy and Tactics, adopted at 52nd Conference, 2007**
 * 2008-02-09, Umsebenzi Online, V7, 2, 6 February 2008**
 * 2008-02-09, State of the Nation Address 2008, Thabo Mbeki, Parliament**
 * 2008-02-09, Ndlelanhle Nyelezi, Jacob Zuma, Preslet, ANC Today**
 * 2008-02-09, A united Africa begins at home, Polokwane Resolutions IV, ANC Today**
 * 2008-02-09, The Bottomline, Issue 3, Volume 5, 7 February 2008**


 * A Man With A 2020 Vision**
 * 2008-02-06, 2020 Vision for Southern Africa, Tony Hall**
 * 2008-02-06, Funeral of Tony Hall at Nelspruit Chapel, 11h00, 7 February 2008**


 * Contradiction**
 * 2008-02-05, MDC participating in Zimbabwe March elections, Tsvangirai**
 * 2008-02-05, Boycott of Swaziland elections, SSN Statement**
 * 2008-02-05, ANC post-conference interaction with structures by leadership**
 * 2008-02-05, Mbeki disregards reality of change, Karima Brown, Business Day**
 * 2008-02-05, DA invites Mbeki to abandon NDR,Zille, Politicsweb**
 * 2008-02-05, Reform or Revolution compilation, Rosa Luxemburg, 1900**


 * Struggle**
 * 2008-02-04, Value, Price & Profit, abridged, Karl Marx, 1865**
 * 2008-02-04, Circus in court for arrested in church raid, Jeremy Gordin, Sindy**


 * Crime**
 * 2008-02-03, An assault on ones sense of self, John Matshikiza, Weekender**
 * 2008-02-03, Anatomy of melancholy, Hilary Mantel, The Guardian**
 * 2008-02-03, Wheel turns Zuma way, Ndivhuho Mafela, Politically Correct**
 * 2008-02-03, No purges, public servants are told, Brown and Musgrave, B Day**
 * 2008-02-03, Switching on to needs of small owners, B Terblanche, B Day**


 * Beloved Tony Hall**
 * 2008-02-02, Tony the Trotskyite selling out, Xolani Xundu, The Times**
 * 2008-02-02, Fury as police fire at march, Anton Ferreira, The Times**
 * 2008-02-02, ANC power grab, Stefaans Brümmer and Sam Sole, M and G**
 * 2008-02-02, Eskom - The real cause of the crisis, James Myburgh, Politicsweb**
 * 2008-02-02, Scorpions a monster - Mantashe, Sue Blaine, Business Day**


 * Can of Worms**
 * 2008-02-01, Open letter to management of City Press, SACP GS Blade Nzimande**
 * 2008-02-01, Eskom doing an Enron on SA, Andre Becker, Letters, B Day**
 * 2008-02-01, Why emergency plan is no way to limit pain, Roodt, B Day**
 * 2008-02-01, SA No 1 story, Barry Sergeant, Fear and Loathing, Moneyweb**
 * 2008-02-01, Judges must earn respect, Mantashe interview, M and G**
 * 2008-02-01, Political Economy Seminar, CCS Durban and skype, 4 February 2008**
 * 2008-02-01, TAC Condemns Police Raid on Central Methodist Church**

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