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Only complete intellectually dishonest imbeciles discount project Disclosure.  Are you one of them?   Stephen Greer - initiator of the Disclosure Project 9 years on we still haven't woken up. I challenge you to watch the Disclosure project video below and give your honest opinion. In advance I'll tell you what I think of your opinion if you disagree with the findings of the Disclosure Project. You have absolutely no intellectual honesty. You are conformist self censorer whose opinions should immediately be discounted. People must be brain damaged or imbeciles not to take note of Project Disclosure. The fear of ridicule emasculates them, spays them and turns them into intellectual eunuchs only capable of contemplating the most probable, the most conventional and the most obvious. Watch project Disclosure and for God sake get some intellectual balls. Project Disclosure Pilot recordings Phil Hall

I hope that you don't mind me posting this, it is for a good cause and is a beautiful thing. A World Cup poster on behalf of Soccer Aid, all proceeds go to UNICEF. Take a look. Thanks. http://www.trebleseven.com/

Broken chairs on the cracked drive The vacuum cleaner's heading for the dump A table lays mourning on it's side The boxes are full of God knows what The junk volcano of a neighbour who died Will soon be taken away His body was removed a few days ago How long it had been in there well no one could say Jim died Jim died Jim died

CU, NDR, Part 12 Hegemony in the NDR On 14 September 2009 the South African Communist Party released a main discussion document (click on the link below) in preparation for the SACP Special National Congress that took place in December 2009 at the Turfloop campus in Polokwane, Limpopo   Province. This document is titled “Building working class hegemony on the terrain of a national democratic struggle”. It is therefore directly in line with the previous eleven parts of this series on the National Democratic Revolution, and presents an opportunity to conclude the 12-part series in an open-ended fashion that is suited to the present conjuncture. The most relevant parts of this document to our discussion so far are Part 2.4 (“The politics of working class hegemony...versus the politics of a multi-class balancing act”) and the whole of Part 3 (“Towards a politics of mass-driven, state-led radical transformation on the terrain of a National Democratic Revolution”). In an echo of Le...

As someone who lost a grandmother, a grandfather and an aunt in the Holocaust, I don't believe being Jewish gives one the right to disposess other people. I don't understand what the Israelis want of the Palestinians, who have made concession after concession. If the Israeli aim is to chase every Palestinian out of what they see as "greater Israel", or to let them fester in bantustans, then I'm with Ronnie Kasrils when he says "Not in my name". By Eve Steinhardt Hall [From the Mail & Guardian December 2001]

The Nazis won. They racially "rebalanced" Europe. Modern fascists would like to do the same. Children in the Lodz ghetto being sent to extermination The eugenicists and racial purists were never really defeated. The holocaust shut them up for a while, but they are back on the march again in Europe. The Nazi's covered their slaughter in a veneer of eugenics. Their murdering was not the murdering of a rampaging mob storming through Johannesburg streets looking for foreigners. These were no  Tutsis burning Hutus alive in churches. They weren't Congolese rebels raping and pillaging. They weren't the equivalent of US fighters napalming villages or British colonists hunting aborigines: in Australia, South Africa and America. They weren't like the Japanese soldiers killing civilians with a bamboo through the eye in Nanjing. With efficiency the Nazis lined up the starving children in the Lodz ghetto ...

CU, NDR, Part 11b The Brutal Side of Capitalist Development The third document in this part of our NDR course wherein the main text is Joe Slovo’s “SA Working Class and the NDR”, is David Moore’s 2004 article, “ The Brutal Side of Capitalist Development ” (linked below). This article can stand as a representation of the growing realisation in broader South African circles that the class struggle is still the engine of history, including historical “development” in any useful sense of the word, and that class struggle has winners and losers, so that the idea of “win-win” development is wholly illusory. By 2004 the promise of a beneficial New World Order following the collapse of the Soviet Union a decade-and-a-half previously had proved false. Instead, the USA and its “coalition of the willing” had mounted monstrous, plundering, Imperial wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, which are referred to briefly in this article. There was clearly to be no holiday from class struggle at any...

CU, NDR, Part 11a Transformation, Not a Balancing Act The main text of this part of the 12-part NDR series is still Joe Slovo’s “ The SA Working Class and the NDR ”. The supporting texts begin with “We Need Transformation, Not a Balancing Act” (linked below), published in 1997, nine years after Slovo’s pamphlet. This was the year following the institution of what has since become known as the “1996 Class Project”, of which it is an initial critique. In the mean time, the SACP and the ANC had been legalised in 1990, the UDF had been disbanded, the CODESA talks had taken place, SACP General Secretary Chris Hani had been assassinated, the ANC had been elected to government in 1994, and Joe Slovo had passed away (on 6 January 1995). All of this triumph and tragedy, and a lot more, historically formed the National Democratic Revolution, and not least in terms of the building of the ANC and the SACP as legal, open, organised structures around this large country with its populat...

CU, NDR, Part 11 The SA Working Class and the NDR The previous week’s part of this 12-part series on the National Democratic Revolution was based around the ANC’s Morogoro Strategy and Tactics document of 1969. We took our examination of the development of South Africa’s NDR up to the beginning of 1976, when the document “ The Enemy Hidden Under the Same Colour ” was published following the treachery and the consequent expulsion from the ANC of the “Gang of Eight”. Later the same year the “Soweto uprising” of youth began and spread all over the country. Trade Unionism re-expanded from the early 1970s with a strike waves in Durban and in the Witwatersrand where the watershed Carletonville Massacre took place in 1973. FOSATU, a syndicalist-led federation, was formed in 1979. It gave way to the National Democratic Revolutionary Alliance-aligned COSATU in 1985. The United Democratic Front was launched in 1983. All of these activities, amounting to the creation of living, democratic ...

Intelligence is the high ground Those of us who sincerely want a fair society and a proper redistribution of wealth and power are hoping that we can outmanoeuvre those who work openly, self deludedly or covertly to keep the capitalist status quo. But certainly the intellectual prostitutes of Marxism 2010 won't do the trick. Yeah, sure. Pull the other one. Will the true revolutionaries please step forward?   Indeed! So where are the communist and socialist universities that will win this intelligence war against sentient global capitalism and not just beat on some unresponding unintelligent straw man construct they build for themselves? Where are the revolutionary strategists and thinkers to help combat the highly developed propaganda weapons of the mass media and lifestyle marketing? The front line against global capitalism is just as much a struggle to deal with working class and "peasant" consumerist aspirations as it is about fostering awa...

Article by the editor of the  SOWETO CHAMBER NEWS in the early 80s is about Lucky Michaels who worked for John Hall, my grandfather, at the Lido hotel in Eikenhoff for a while. I think he ran the Liquor store. John cultivated entrepreneurial enthusiasm in everyone who worked for him and he was an admirer of Dale Carnegie. He valued hard work above all else and his well known phrase "We'll never die of hunger, will we?" said "Be grateful for what you have and for a rich prosperous and capitalist South Africa." John was in favour of gradual reform and against revolution and, like many white liberals, above all things he desired the growth of a prosperous, educated black South African middle class to ensure continued peace and prosperity in South Africa. He was irritated and angry at the racist ideology of the Afrikaners which seemed to be preventing the creation of this black South African middle class. John cultivated people like Lucky Micheals and lucky M...

Umsebenzi Online, Volume 9, No. 9, 19 May 2010 In this Issue: The Revolution is on trial (11): It calls for true revolutionaries to come forward! Red Alert The Revolution is on trial (11): It calls for true revolutionaries to come forward!             Blade Nzimande, General Secretary Our national democratic revolution has entered a critical phase in which the many advances made in the run up to, and especially since, the Polokwane conference can either be deepened or face the danger of being rolled back. This is a period that also requires a proper appraisal of recent and current developments, including opportunities and threats to the Polokwane advances, so that our movement as a whole can tighten the political line of march for all our cadres. This is also a mid-term period between the Polokwane conference, the SACP 12th Congress in 2007 and the next set of congresses in 2012. Thus this period requires a thorough assessme...

The house was typical: split level, a master bedroom above the garage, a maid's quarters, more bedrooms, a few steps down reception rooms, some steps up a family room. The furniture was smooth and cool. The kitchen functional. By South African standards the plot wasn't large. It was green and replete with all manner of plants from subtropical palms to peach trees and violets. Whatever the season, thanks to the hidden automatic sprinklers, it was rich with colour. And of course the neat and sparkling swimming pool, kept clean by the vacuum hose that hoovered up anything that fell into the water. Swimming pools were the norm for white suburban houses, though the area was going a little grey - non whites were now moving in. The couple only had one full time helper who lived with them and a gardener who came twice a week. It was becoming difficult to maintain the standards that they had once taken for granted. Nora was ready to go back to work now that Liz was going to pre-sc...

CU, NDR, Part 10c   The Arusha Declaration So far in this series we have moved through five decades from the 1920s to the 1970s, with sufficient detail to demonstrate that in the world at large and in South Africa in particular, conscious, deliberate National Democratic Revolution was the main historical process under way in that time. In Africa, the process gathered speed from 1960. On 25 May 1963, earlier regional initiatives, especially the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East, Central and Southern Africa (PAFMECSA), of which Tanzania had been a leading member, gave way for the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Africa Day will be celebrated in a few days time, with most events taking place on Saturday, 29 May 2010. The last supporting document to the Morogoro Strategy and Tactics is named after another Tanzanian town: Arusha. It is the famous 1967 “Arusha Declaration” of Julius Nyerere and the ruling TANU (Tanganyika African N...