August+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/===


 * Democracy All Round**
 * 2006-08-31, Address to SADTU 6th National Congress, COSATU GS Z Vavi**
 * 2006-08-31, The Workers Survey, COSATU Press Release 13h00 060830**
 * 2006-08-31, COSATU seeks pro-poor ANC, Brown and Musgrave, B Day**
 * 2006-08-31, Zuma trial delays hurt Thint business, Ernest Mabuza, B Day**
 * 2006-08-31, Life beyond Mbeki sell-by date, Karima Brown, Business Day**
 * 2006-08-31, Parliament approves mercenaries bill, Sapa and Business Day**


 * Working Class News**
 * 2006-08-30, SACP GS Blade Nzimande, Address to SAMWU 2006 Congress**
 * 2006-08-30, COSATU Mpumalanga, Make Swaziland Ungovernable, 060729**
 * 2006-08-30, FAWU, Bokomo Foods cereal workers on strike from 060827**
 * 2006-08-30, Mass action for SATAWU contract cleaning workers 060901**
 * 2006-08-30, NUM may not re-elect Cosatu top brass, Amy Musgrave, B Day**
 * 2006-08-30, Arms-deal letter pivotal in Zuma battle, Brown, Mabuza, B Day**


 * Democracy, Class and State**
 * 2006-08-28, Cameron, We got it wrong on apartheid, Ned Temko, The Observer**
 * 2006-08-28, Mbeki loyalty plan flops, Mpumelelo Mkhabela, City Press**
 * 2006-08-28, Intensify campaign v unemployment and monopoly, YCLNC**


 * Tortured Prose**
 * 2006-08-27, Elephant in room wants out, Tim Cohen, Business Day Weekender**


 * The Street Is A Medium Of Mass Communication**
 * 2006-08-26, Only God judges, Tutu told, Sapa, The Star**
 * 2006-08-26, Zuma, Thint go for broke, Sam Sole, Mail and Guardian**
 * 2006-08-26, Sleight of hand by Terry Bell, Business Report**
 * 2006-08-26, In praise of labour movement virtues, Neva Makgetla, Business Day**
 * 2006-08-26, Lebanese Civilians Thwarted Israel, James Marc Leas, Counterpunch**


 * No News Today**
 * 2006-08-25, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, Engels, 1880**


 * Chickens Home To Roost**
 * 2006-08-24, Zuma, Thint fight back, Jeremy Gordin, The Star**
 * 2006-08-24, Banished to political purgatory, Zuma, Oellermann, The Star**
 * 2006-08-24, Hoax e-mail probe draws scathing report, Angela Quintal, The Star**
 * 2006-08-24, Flyer for Worker Poetry, 18h00, Booysens Hotel, 060824**
 * 2006-08-24, Zim Solidarity Forum at CSVR 09h30, Braamfontein, 060831**


 * Notices**
 * 2006-08-23, Parties, Labour and State, Netshitenzhe, 17h15, 060907, Con Hill**
 * 2006-08-23, Treatment Action Campaign Global Call to Action Tomorrow**
 * 2006-08-23, GLU Masters in Labour Policies and Globalisation, Wits**


 * Out Of The Ground**
 * 2006-08-23, COSATU North West response on the political environment**
 * 2006-08-23, SSN and COSATU, Dropping of charges against 5 COSATU leaders**
 * 2006-08-23, Cosmic Judeo Bunker No More, Gilad Atzmon, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-08-23, Journey to South Lebanon, Ramzi Kysia, Beirut, Counterpunch**


 * A Job and Events**
 * 2006-08-22, SSN - FSEJ, Job advert, project co-ordinator**
 * 2006-08-22, Dr Blade Nzimande, speech delivered at the IRF conference**
 * 2006-08-22, YCL Seminar Leaflet for 060825 11h00 - 16h00 plain**
 * 2006-08-22, 156 Hands, Phyllis Naidoo, Treason Trial book launch 060826**
 * 2006-08-22, SACP Jhb Central Pol Ed Report for AGM, 20 August 2006**


 * Succession No Problem for Jhb Central**
 * 2006-08-21, Women, Basic Principles, Declaration, Resolution, 3CCI, 1921**
 * 2006-08-21, COSATU president denies probe, Terreblanche and Mbanjwa, Sindy**
 * 2006-08-21, ANCYL speaks out on ANC succession, Fikile Mbalula, City Press**


 * The Caravan Moves On**
 * 2006-08-20, COSATU GS Z Vavi to NEHAWU National Bargaining Conference**
 * 2006-08-20, SACCAWU Media Release On Alleged COSATU Leadership Wrangle**
 * 2006-08-20, Secondary strikes for Cleaning sector, SATAWU**
 * 2006-08-20, Swaziland, SNACS-STAWU-SATU-SNA Statement**
 * 2006-08-20, FSCC Chairperson and SACP GS Dr Blade Nzimande to address IRF**


 * On Another Planet**
 * 2006-08-19, Economics, politics and Cosatu, Willie Madisha, Mail and Guardian**
 * 2006-08-19, COSATU says no divisions in leadership, Brown and Musgrave, B Day**
 * 2006-08-19, Captured Israeli soldier born in SA, Paula Slier, The Star**
 * 2006-08-19, Beaten - Why the IDF Lost in Lebanon, William Lind, Counterpunch**


 * Reality and Fantasy**
 * 2006-08-18, Theses on Feuerbach, Marx, 1845**
 * 2006-08-18, SACP Statement on current developments within COSATU**
 * 2006-08-18, Defend COSATU against faceless leaders, COSATU Mpumalanga**
 * 2006-08-18, SACTWU gains, NULAW loses, majority in the leather industry**
 * 2006-08-18, Lily white at the top and pitch black at the bottom, SATAWU**


 * Proletarian Movement**
 * 2006-08-17, Umsebenzi Online, Proletarian Trade Union Movement**
 * 2006-08-17, Let us just wait and see, Editorial, Business Day**
 * 2006-08-17, Costly silence of SADC, Swaziland Solidarity Network**
 * 2006-08-17, ZCTU Secretary General assaulted and detained, ZCTU and COSATU**


 * Israel Doomed**
 * 2006-08-16, The Zionist project is doomed, Asad Abukhalil, The Angry Arab**
 * 2006-08-16, A Victory for Hizbollah, Syria and Iran, Robert Fisk, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-08-16, Women, hidden violence of discrimination, Neva Makgetla, B Day**


 * Interesting Times**
 * 2006-08-15, COSATU, A March to remember in 1946**
 * 2006-08-15, NUMSA, Forklift drivers six-year fight pays off**
 * 2006-08-15, COSATU Pre-Congress discussions**
 * 2006-08-15, COSATU responds to Pikoli**
 * 2006-08-15, COSATU statement on City Press allegations**


 * Boycott Israel Now!**
 * 2006-08-15, Lebanon ceasefire, the real war begins, Robert Fisk, The Independent**
 * 2006-08-15, Huge Israeli offensive launched despite ceasefire, The Independent**
 * 2006-08-15, The Case for Boycotting Israel, Omar Barghouti, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-08-15, Anti-Zionist boycott follow-up, Xymphora**
 * 2006-08-15, Lebanese Communists on the UN resolution**


 * Scares, Lies, Selective Memories, and Truth**
 * 2006-08-14, How London terror scare looks from Beirut, Fisk, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-08-14, UK government credibility is under threat, City Press**
 * 2006-08-14, Vavi, Madisha at war, Msomi, City Press**
 * 2006-08-14, Divisions over Zuma at SACP meeting, Msomi, City Press**
 * 2006-08-14, Cronin and Vavi reject Manuel Gear defence, Terreblanche, Sindy**
 * 2006-08-14, Statement of the SACP Central Committee**


 * Freedom Is A Social Institution**
 * 2006-08-13, Social Basis of Woman Question, abstract, Kollontai, 1909**
 * 2006-08-13, A Progressive Womens Movement of South Africa, ANC**
 * 2006-08-13, Friends of Cuba Society, Constitution**
 * 2006-08-13, Is NEC the executive board of ANC Inc, Vukani Mde, Weekender**
 * 2006-08-13, Collapse of the flanks, William S Lind, Counterpunch**


 * ANC Today, Gone Tomorrow**
 * 2006-08-12, COSATU calls for Shoprite boycott, Sapa, IOL**
 * 2006-08-12, 1946 mineworkers Strike, COSATU**
 * 2006-08-12, 1946 Mineworkers Strike, ANC Today**
 * 2006-08-12, No contradictions between RDP and GEAR, Trevor Manuel**
 * 2006-08-12, The tail wags the dog wags the tail, Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom**


 * Organise, Organise, Organise**
 * 2006-08-11, COSATU sends wishes to Oscar Mabori, 16 floor drop survivor**
 * 2006-08-11, SATAWU announcement, Randall Howard acceptance as ITF Pres**
 * 2006-08-11, COSATU congratulates Randall Howard**
 * 2006-08-11, Architects boycott Israel over apartheid barrier, Independent**
 * 2006-08-11, Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics, The Guardian**


 * Educate, Organise, Mobilise**
 * 2006-08-10, COSATU Ninth National Congress Programme, 18-21 September 2006**
 * 2006-08-10, AREF boycott campaign planning, IPCI, Durban, 09h30 Sat 12 Aug**
 * 2006-08-10, Operation Security Roof, Gilad Atzmon, Counterpunch**


 * Truth Comes Out**
 * 2006-08-09, SACCAWU announce August 10 strike, boycott of Shoprite Group**
 * 2006-08-09, A few billion reasons to question ANC, Brown, Business Day**
 * 2006-08-09, SACP to hold Central Committee meeting August 11 and 12**
 * 2006-08-09, Selected extracts from the SACP Constitution**
 * 2006-08-09, The anti-Zionist boycott, Xymphora**
 * 2006-08-09, MDC Mutambara march, Berea Park to Fox Str, 10h00 August 10**


 * Profit versus People**
 * 2006-08-08, Policies have put profit before people, Blade Nzimande, Sunday Times**
 * 2006-08-08, Status quo versus human being, Jeremy Gordin, Sunday Independent**
 * 2006-08-08, COSATU stands up for the unemployed, Tweedie, Sunday Times**
 * 2006-08-08, Labour and the Challenges of Development, GLU, Devan Pillay**
 * 2006-08-08, NUM calls the Kumba strike off**
 * 2006-08-08, Comrade shot by police, Mduduzi Magagula, Times of Swaziland**


 * A Great Cause**
 * 2006-08-07, The Case for Boycotting Israel, Virginia Tilley, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-08-07, A Great Cause, Origin of Anti-Apartheid Movement, Christabel Gurney, 1999**
 * 2006-08-07, Friends of the Soviet Union, Esther Barsel and Mosie Moolla**
 * 2006-08-07, Federation of SA Women, NEC and Membership, Cheryl Walker, 1982**


 * Heart and Soul**
 * 2006-08-06, Attitude of the Workers Party to Religion, Lenin, 1900**
 * 2006-08-06, Mandela, Mbeki, and the end of humanism, Vukani Mde, Weekender**
 * 2006-08-06, eTV even worse than SABC news, Vukani Mde, Weekender**
 * 2006-08-06, Israeli colonialist death warrant for your home, Ernshire, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-08-06, The Social Basis of the Woman Question, Kollontai, 1909**


 * Street versus Boardroom**
 * 2006-08-05, Venezuela pulls out Israel ambassador, Al Jazeera**
 * 2006-08-05, Adjusting the Heroic Commando Raid Story, Roger Assaf, Counterpunch**
 * 2006-08-05, COSATU strongly condemns MPC interest rate increase**
 * 2006-08-05, COSATU supports strikers and draws lessons**
 * 2006-08-05, SADTU, NEC decisions, Madisha nominated for COSATU Presidency**
 * 2006-08-05, Boardroom versus Street, Laura Carlson, Mexico City, Counterpunch**


 * World In Action**
 * 2006-08-04, Message sent by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro**
 * 2006-08-04, Classes and Parties, Attitude to Religion, Lenin, 1909**
 * 2006-08-04, COSATU welcomes Carlos Alberto, calls for a soccer indaba**
 * 2006-08-04, NEHAWU and DENOSA Rustenburg to march with COSATU August 16**
 * 2006-08-04, NUM, Kumba talks at the brink**
 * 2006-08-04, SACCAWU, 50,000 workers versus Shoprite Checkers**


 * The Question Is Put**
 * 2006-08-03, Umsebenzi Online, Vol 5, No. 61, 02 August 2006**
 * 2006-08-03, COSATU GS Z Vavi to 85th Anniversary of SACP, Pietermaritzburg, 2006**
 * 2006-08-03, COSATU GS Z Vavi to ITWF Congress, Durban 2006**
 * 2006-08-03, FAWU March to Kraft HO 10h00 Woodmead 060808**
 * 2006-08-03, COSATU sends best wishes to Fidel Castro**


 * The Struggle Continues**
 * 2006-08-02, Fidel Castro Delegates Functions for Health Reasons**
 * 2006-08-02, Syria in the gunsight, Uri Avnery, Counterpunch**


 * Solidarity**
 * 2006-08-01, COSATU, Solidarity action in support of strikers at Kraft Foods**
 * 2006-08-01, COSATU on Pietermaritzburg High Court decision**
 * 2006-08-01, Vans, Autos, Kombis and Social Movements, Ashwin Desai**


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