Cdes plz tell me how do i join ths communist university? On 12/10/12, Jama Khadim Sephooa <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Comrades > > As a new entry to CU I enjoy the knowledge I acquire in the group this will > surely boost and strengthens my zeal to better understand the politico. > > However Comrades I always wanted to know that prior to 1652 what was South > Africa be like and why always there is no history of South Africa before > 1652. > > I will appreciate to be feed and got nourished with this history. > > Aluta Continua > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Dominic Tweedie > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Dear Comrades, >> >> The eighth CU half-day module, "*Marx's 'Capital', Volumes 1, 2 and 3*", >> is now ready for use. >> >> Find the files at: >> >> * >> https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/58-marx-s-capital-volumes-1-2-and-3-half-day >> * >> >> >> VC >> >> >> >> >> On 9 December 2012 17:35, VC <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> * >>> [image: Communist University] >>> >>> From the Communist University* >>> ** >>> >>> *A New, Modular System for Political Schools* >>> >>> *“At least once every year, the Central Committee and Provincial >>> Executive Committees must hold or meet as a political school. Our >>> district >>> executive committees must meet as a political school twice a year, once >>> in >>> each half of the year. Our BECs must meet as such at least four times a >>> year.* >>> >>> *“In addition to the above, once every year the Central Committee must >>> convene one national political school targeted at the provincial >>> leaderships of the SACP. Similarly each province and district must hold >>> one >>> provincial and district council per year as a dedicated political school >>> targetted respectively at provincial, district and branch leadership.* >>> ** >>> *“Each district must ensure that each branch of the SACP must hold at >>> least 4 political schools targeted at all Party members in a branch.”* >>> >>> *South African Road to Socialism* >>> >>> The above requirement is given in the Party’s five-year ‘SARS’ >>> programme, >>> passed more than four months ago at the Ongoye Congress, in July, 2012. >>> How >>> is the SACP going to execute it? >>> >>> SARS says that the Central Committee is supposed to have two political >>> schools every year: one for itself, and the other for PEC members. The >>> PECs >>> are supposed to have three schools, the Districts four schools, and >>> Branches five schools per year. Comrades who are PEC members might be >>> obliged, as such, as deployees to Districts, and as members of Branches, >>> to >>> attend as many as twelve schools in a year. >>> >>> *Workload* >>> >>> All of this comes on top of increased campaigning, and on top of the >>> continuing reorganisation and expansion of the Party’s constitutional >>> structures, especially the Voting District (VD) Branches, as well as >>> commitments as members and as leadership, in MDM and ANC structures and >>> programmes. >>> >>> This enormous projected increase in the political education activities >>> of >>> the SACP, plus the standing requirement for the Party to run political >>> schools in other Alliance structures, would seem to mean that a >>> qualitatively different and systematic design is needed. This new design >>> for political education needs to be *modular* in its diverse units, and >>> * >>> comprehensive* in overall scope. >>> >>> *Solution* >>> >>> The CU here outlines a way by which we can programme the required >>> political schools, derived from the existing ten-part courses of the >>> Communist University, converted into half-day modules. These new >>> half-day >>> modules are currently 7 in number. There will soon be 10, and the total >>> will increase during 2013 to 14, which should then be sufficient for >>> most >>> conceivable political-school requirements. >>> >>> To download the Communist University half-day modules, click on the >>> titles in the following list: >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Ref.* >>> >>> *New Half-Day Courses: Linked List* >>> >>> *51* >>> >>> *No Woman, No >>> Revolution<https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/51-no-woman-no-revolution-half-day-1> >>> * >>> >>> *52* >>> >>> *Anti-Imperialism, War and >>> Peace<https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/52-anti-imperialism-war-and-peace-half-day> >>> * >>> >>> *53* >>> >>> *Philosophy, Religion and Class >>> Struggle<https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/53-philosophy-religion-and-class-struggle-half-day> >>> * >>> >>> *54* >>> >>> *Lenin's "The State and >>> Revolution"<https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/54-lenin-s-the-state-and-revolution-half-day> >>> * >>> >>> *55* >>> >>> *African Revolutionary >>> Writers<https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/55-african-revolutionary-writers-half-day> >>> * >>> >>> *56* >>> >>> *The Communist >>> Basics<https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/56-the-communist-basics-half-day> >>> * >>> >>> *57* >>> >>> *The National Democratic >>> Revolution<https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/57-the-national-democratic-revolution-half-day> >>> * >>> >>> ** ** >>> Alternatively, to download these and other Communist University >>> materials, go to the index page at: >>> >>> *https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/*** >>> >>> Links to the half-day modules will be found in the panel on the >>> left-hand >>> side of this index screen. The page for each half-day module contains >>> all >>> the necessary downloadable files. Each half-day set is fully >>> self-contained >>> and ready to go. Each contains simple instructions for use. >>> >>> *Diagram* >>> >>> Please now see the diagram below, for the full scheme in outline. It >>> also >>> includes quoted prices for the materials kits, ready printed in stapled >>> booklets, and neatly boxed. >>> >>> Below the diagram are two typical, *one-day* programmes, each made up of >>> two of the half-day modules. A *two-day* or a *three-day* programme can >>> be made by combining two such one-day programmes; and so on. The >>> possible >>> permutations are many. >>> >>> This system, if adopted, can provide a resourced framework for the SACP >>> to manage the projected expansion of political education. >>> >>> *With thanks to all who assisted in the development of these kits*. >>> >>> *VC* >>> >>> >>> [image: Explanation of half-day modular schools] >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> *CU Political School Material, 2012, Pack 1* >>> >>> *One-day Programme* >>> >>> *08h00, *Register, Tea and sandwiches** >>> >>> *08h30, *Greeting** >>> >>> *09h00-13h00, Session 1* >>> >>> *The Communist Basics* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Text **(N.B., main sessions should be 60% discussion)* >>> >>> *Nominal**:* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Short Reading (aloud): Marx, ‘Capital’ V1, C1, Commodities, Section 1* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 1 >>> >>> Marx, Engels, Excerpts from the Communist Manifesto, and on Surplus >>> Value >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Tea break* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 2 >>> >>> Machiavelli, The Prince, two chapters; and Engels, The Science of >>> Dialectics >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Body Break* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 3 >>> >>> Marx, Lenin and the SACP, from Surplus Value to The Party >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Slovo, SA Working Class and the NDR, Part 1 (further reading)* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> ** ** >>> *13h00 – 14h00, *Lunch** >>> *14h00 – 18h00, Session 2* >>> >>> *African Revolutionary Writers* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Text **(N.B., main sessions should be 60% discussion)*** >>> >>> *Nominal**:* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Short Reading (aloud):* *Douglass, If There Is No Struggle There Is No >>> Progress* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 1 >>> >>> Culture, Liberation, Neo-colonialism; Ngugi, Cabral >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Tea break* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 2 >>> >>> National Liberation; Lumumba, Mondlane, Neto >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Body Break* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 3 >>> >>> Class; Nasser, First >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *First, Fanon; on Development (further reading)* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *18h00, Close* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ** ** >>> *Further reading material in-pack:* >>> >>> Marx’s “Capital”, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, in brief >>> >>> The Classics, in brief >>> >>> National Democratic Revolution, in brief >>> >>> Remainder of ‘Basics’ >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ** ** >>> *CU Political School Material, 2012, Pack 2* >>> ** >>> *One-day Programme* >>> >>> ** ** >>> *08h00, *Register, Tea and sandwiches** >>> *08h30, *Greeting** >>> * >>> 09h00-13h00, Session 1* >>> >>> *The State and Revolution* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Text **(N.B., main sessions should be 60% discussion)*** >>> >>> *Nominal**:* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Short Reading (aloud):* * Lenin, The April Theses, 1917* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 1 >>> >>> Lenin, The State and Revolution, C1, Class Society and the State, 1917 >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Tea break* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 2 >>> >>> Lenin, The State and Revolution, C2, The Experience of 1848-1851 >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Body Break* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 3 >>> >>> Lenin, The State and Revolution, C3, The Paris Commune >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *The State and Revolution, C5, Withering Away of the State, (further >>> reading)* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> *****13h00 – 14h00, *Lunch** >>> *14h00 – 18h00, Session 2* >>> * >>> **Anti-Imperialism, War and Peace* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Text** (N.B., main sessions should be 60% discussion)*** >>> >>> *Nominal**:* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Short Reading (aloud):* *Lenin, Report on National and Colonial >>> Question >>> * >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 1 >>> >>> Lenin; Self-Determination; Insurrection >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Tea break* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 2 >>> >>> Pomeroy, Le Duan and Teitelboim >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Body Break* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> 3 >>> >>> Fidel Castro, 30 years after Angola; Dixon on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; >>> Shivji >>> >>> *1 hour* >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *Martin Luther King, Beyond Vietnam (further reading)* >>> >>> *15 minutes* >>> >>> ** ** >>> *18h00, Close* >>> **** >>> >>> *Further reading material in-pack:* >>> >>> No Woman, No Revolution, in brief >>> >>> Philosophy, Religion and Class Struggle, in brief >>> >>> Development, Rural and Urban, in brief >>> >>> Basics (remainder)** >>> >>> ** >>> >>> ** >>> ** >>> >>> ** >>> ** >>> >>> ** >>> ** >>> >>> ** >>> >>> ** >>> >>> -- >>> You are subscribed. 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