Communist+University+2006


 * Johannesburg Central's Communist University: 2006 Draft Programme.***


 * **Date** || **Title** || **Author** || **Opening** ||
 * //Jan27// || **Critical Pedagogy: Learning Freedom (compilation), 13 pp.** || //Freire, McLaren, Boal// || **//Tonya Graham//** ||
 * **No Woman, No Revolution** ||
 * Feb 3 || **Lenin on Women, 1919 and 1920, compilation, 7 pp.** || V. I. Lenin || **Natalya Dinat** ||
 * 10 || **Dialogue with Lenin, 1920, 8 pp.** || Clara Zetkin || **Claire Bless** ||
 * 17 || **Kollontai, Social Basis of Woman Question, 1909, 8pp** || A. Kollontai || **Muff Andersson** ||
 * //24// || //**Transformative Trade Unionism**// || //Langa Zita// || //(05)// ||
 * Mar 3 || **Socialism and Gender Equality, 2001, 12 pp.** || Liesl Orr || **Tanya van Meelis** ||
 * 10 || **Women, Race and Class, Working-Class Perspective, 1981, 11 pp.** || Angela Davis || **Pamela Masiko** ||
 * 24 || **What future for the family, 2004, 8 pp.** || Jenny Bristow || **Khethiwe Marais** ||
 * //31// || //**Civil Society and the Struggle for Socialism**// || //Michele Williams// || //(09)// ||
 * Apr 7 || **Women - Caste, Class or Oppressed Sex? 1970, 8 pp.** || Evelyn Reed || **Luli Callinicos** ||
 * 21 || **(Untimely) Critiques for a Red Feminism, 1995, 20 pp.** || Teresa Ebert || **Ferial Haffajee** ||
 * May 5 || **Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism;Vedic science, 2004, 15 pp.** || Meera Nanda || **Lulama Nare** ||
 * //12// || //**What is a Co-operative?**// || //Vishwas Satgar// || //(13)// ||
 * **Basic Communism** ||
 * 19 || **Bourgeois and Proletarians ex The Communist Manifesto, 1848, 8 pp.** || Karl Marx || **Kimani Ndungu** ||
 * 26 || **The 3 Sources and 3 Component parts of Marxism, 1913, 4 pp.** || V. I. Lenin || **Theresa Giorza** ||
 * Jun 2 || **African Socialism Revisited, 1967, 4 pp.** || Kwame Nkrumah || **Peter Mahlangu** ||
 * //9// || //**What are the lessons of the NDR in the 20th Century?**// || //Rob Davies// || //(17)// ||
 * 23 || **What is to be Done, C4, Workers and Revolutionaries, 1902, 8 pp.** || V. I. Lenin || **Rosemary Ndoqo** ||
 * 30 || **Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1, Parts 1, 2 and 4, 1867, 12pp** || Karl Marx || **Tebogo Phadu** ||
 * Jul 7 || **Value, Price and Profit, Parts 6 to 10, 8pp** || Karl Marx || **Tebogo Phadu** ||
 * //14// || //**FOCUS Cuba Solidarity event.**// || || //(21)// ||
 * 21 || **Origin of Family, Private Property and State, Chapter 9, 1884, 12 pp.** || Frederick Engels || **Esther Barsel** ||
 * 28 || **Reform or Revolution, compilation, 1908, 16 pp.** || Rosa Luxemburg || **Shanthie Naidoo** ||
 * //Aug 4// || //**Gender and the Socialist Revolution**// || //Jenny Schreiner// || (24) ||
 * 18 || **Classes and Parties, Attitudes to Religion, 1909, 4 pp.** || V. I. Lenin || (25) ||
 * **Philosophy of Freedom** ||
 * 25 || **Theses on Feuerbach, 1845, 2 pp.** || Karl Marx || (26) ||
 * //Sep 1// || //**What is the World Social Forum?**// || //Vishwas Satgar// || (//27)// ||
 * 8 || **Why Revolutionaries Need Marxism, 1976, 7 pp.** || Dialego || **Buti Manamela** ||
 * 15 || **Pacifism and Violence, 1938, 11 pp.** || C. Caudwell || (29) ||
 * //29// || //**What is the Political Economy of the Working Class Today?**// || //Langa Zita// || //(30)// ||
 * Oct 6 || **Death of the Subject Explained, 2002, 16 pp.** || Heartfield || (31) ||
 * 13 || **Gramsci, Freire, Organic Intellectuals, Critical Pedagogy, 2005, 15pp** || McLaren, Fischman || (32) ||
 * 20 || **Some Aspects of the Southern Question, 1926, 12 pp.** || Antonio Gramsci || (33) ||
 * **Revolutionary Politics** ||
 * //27// || //**What is Happening in China?**// || //Pallo Jordan// || //(34)// ||
 * Nov 3 || **1,000 Days of Popular Unity, 1977, 8 pp.** || Volodia Teitelboim || **Buti Manamela** ||
 * 10 || **Barking Dogs and Building Bridges, 2004, 8 pp.** || Lauren Royston || (36) ||
 * //17// || //**What is a Developmental State?**// || //Omano Edigheji// || //(37)// ||
 * 24 || **The Struggle for Democracy, 2003, 8 pp.** || Issa Shivji || (38) ||
 * Dec 1 || **Adventurism, Insurrection, 1902, 1917, 16 pp.** || V. I. Lenin || (39) ||
 * 8 || **Nascent Trend of Imperialist Economism, 1916, 8 pp.** || V. I. Lenin || (40) ||
 * //15// || //**Is Our Social Policy Adequate?**// || //Langa Zita// || //(41)// ||


 * //* Texts and order may be changed by the study group.//**


 * Venue and Time****: Lekgotla Space, Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, 17h00 – 18h30.**


 * Openers** **should be on time to open the discussion for 10-15 minutes, reviewing the work and bringing out suitable talking points. The chairperson will encourage dialogue involving all participants. Please volunteer to open a discussion – all it requires is that you read the work and give your own brief account of it.**


 * //All are welcome.// //Contact: Dominic Tweedie, e-mail hypercube@telkomsa.net or dominic.tweedie@gmail.com.//**