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Responses to Lehulere
by Ebrahim Harvey |
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Responses to Lehulere
by Trevor Ngwane |
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Responses to Lehulere
by Stephen Greenberg |
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Responses to Lehulere
by Heinrich Bohmke
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Once More on Orientation : A Rejoinder
by Oupa Lehulere
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Statement by Cape Town organisat ions against participation in the ‘New UDF’
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THE JOURNAL
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In this Edition
This edition of the journal is dedicated to the debate around the formation of the ‘new UDF’ in August of this year. Although nothing further has been heard from the front of organi-zations that was launched in Cape Town on 22 August, the debate nevertheless remains important...]
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An Orientation to Cosatu?
Our Political Initiative
Capitalism failed absolutely the vast majority of this country as it became intertwined and dependent on racism and could only survive in the form of apartheid. Post apartheid capitalism is once again leaving a trail of hunger, poverty, anger and misery…
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Shadow Boxing? Cosatu, Social Movements and the ANC Government
At the ring-side “I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one’s body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to
attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match”. Nelson Mandela…
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On the ‘New UDF’ A UDF for Co-option and Job Losse
The new UDF or coalition against job losses and poverty spearheaded by COSATU and NGOs such as the Alternative Information and Development Centre is a coalition aimed at
strengthening the ANC government in power to drive a radical transformation. But what is this radical transformation…
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A Reply to Cottle
You are remarkably pessimistic about the power of our politics and the potential of these hairline cracks forming in the ANC monolith. If the left keeps on refusing to get involved and fight these fights, we’ll stay lily-white but all the people who are getting involved in this kind of thing because they want an alternative to neoliberalism/Mbeki/unemployment…
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The New Social Movements, Cosatu and the ‘New UDF’
The “launch”, by COSATU and some ‘civil society organisation’, of the ‘new United Democratic Front’ in the Western Cape on 22 August has already gone the way of many similar announcements in the past. As usual, there were the big headlines in one or more newspapers; followed by excitement among …
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TNotes on a Discussion of ‘The New Social Movements, Cosatu and the ‘New UDF’
The Editorial Collective of the Khanya Journal hosted a discussion of Lehulere Lehulere’s paper in the evening of 26 August 2005. The discussion took place in the Jubilee boardroom in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and more than 40 activists from different organizations attended. Below is a summary of the discussion...........
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Our struggle lies beyond the wage
During preparations for the Anti-War Coalition (AWC) march earlier this year, in the light of discussions focusing quite substantially on the need for us to develop links with COSATU and ‘working class issues’, I proposed that we make one of our key themes, ‘An Injury To One Is An Injury To All’. …
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Responses to Lehulere
Comrade Oupa I try not to respond to issues that come up in this forum because there are so many and you require time to do so but felt compelled to respond to some of the issues you raise in your substantial and timely contribution to a critically important debate. This is a very brief response to only some issues you raise…
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Responses to Lehulere
Oupa Lehulere is the director of Khanya College and a socialist. His paper is 33 pages long and talks about how we can find a road to socialism in South Africa. He concentrates on COSATU and its call to form a “UDF”, that is, an organization which brings together different community and labour organizations fighting against capitalist policies....
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Responses to Lehulere
Here are a number of points that I think are being confused (perhaps deliberately so) in the debate about the social movements and their relationship to Cosatu and other mass based organisations of the working class. First, there seems to be a crude notion of the way
political tensions inside the Alliance are likely to manifest themselves
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Responses to Lehulere
Two papers discussing the formation of the new UDF have been circulated recently; one by Naidoo Naidoo and the other by Lehulere Lehulere, both of whom are well respected in South African “ultra-left” circles. I think it is fair to say that both Naidoo and Lehulere are sceptical about the value to be derived by social movements having any dealings with Cosatu…
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Once More on Orientation
Comrades in debates such as the one we are engaged in at present it is customary for protagonists to ‘welcome debate’ and to note the importance of this or that debate. In general, I take comrades at their word and also welcome such debate. But in specific cases it is necessary to go beyond such general phrases…
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Statement by Cape Town organisations against participation in the ‘New UD
The following statement was released by a group of organisations before the launch of the ‘new UDF’, and included Concerned residents of Delft, Cuba Heights AEC, Eastridge AEC, Elitha Park AEC, Freedom Park AEC, Hanover Park AEC, Ikwezi Park AEC, Intatho Nxaxheba (Crossroads, Boys Town)…
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