What I'm proud of about this document is that when the enemy captured it from captured or martyred MK cadres it was used utilised for their own counter-insurgency and training activities.
This showed that the SACP was capable of underground work that was difficult to penetrate by the enemy. Those who did Handler's Orientation and Intelligence Processing courses during the beginning phases of the SANDF integration can attest to the weak ex-SADF Captains and Colonels who wanted to show their better understanding of our 'How to Master Secret Work' document. They complemented this with one 'Antisa Document', some superficial assimilations of the perceived attacks by some perceived enemy of the apartheid state. I reccommend that comrades read this book with one on the Soviet underground, entitled 'How the Steel Was Tampered?. The work of the Komsomol and the Young Guards is very interesting. Remember the words 'MAN'S DEAREST POSSESSION IS LIFE, IT IS GIVEN TO HIM BUT ONCE. HE MUST LIVE IT SO AS TO FEEL NO TORTURING REGRET SO AS... These are a resource in keeping vigilance, dedication and unity of purpose among comrades. Regards, Mzukisi Ronyuza On 10/18/13, VC <[email protected]> wrote: > Course on Anti-Imperialism, War and Peace, Part 6b > > > > Secret Work > > > > How to Master Secret Work > > > > The third attached and linked item in this part is the 1980 clandestine > SACP > publication "How to Master Secret Work > <http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/sacp/1980/ > secret-work.htm> ". It makes a point that we need here, which is that there > is no virtue in being illegal. > > > > The communists do not volunteer to be illegal. > > > > The nature of secret work is really that it is a systematic struggle > against > banning and persecution. As much as it is secret, yet its purpose is the > re-expansion of communication and the re-legalisation of the Party. Its > purpose is the public political rebirth of the organisation. > > > > Within less than ten years of the publication of the attached document, the > SACP was unbanned and declared fully legal again, as it has remained ever > since, up to today. > > > > The SACP had been banned and was underground ("clandestine") from 1950 to > 1990, a total of forty years. All that time the Party struggled to reverse > the situation of banning and illegality. It announced its existence with > the > publication of the African Communist from 1959. "How to Master Secret Work" > was published in the underground newspaper, Umsebenzi. > > > > The great majority of secret work is about communicating, and through > communication, deliberately reversing the Party's excommunication from > society. > > > > There is no imaginable situation where the political vanguard will > deliberately choose to be clandestine and make a virtue of its > excommunication from the masses. There is no virtue in secrecy. > > > > Unfortunately we have none of the lively illustrations from this historic > document, only the text. > > > > > > . The above is to introduce the original reading-text: How to Master > Secret Work, 1980, SACP, Part 1 > <https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses2/17-anti-imperialism-war-and-pe > ace/17063a%2CSACP%2CHowtoMasterSecretWork%2C1980%2Cpart1.pdf?attredirects=0& > d=1> and Part 2 > <https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses2/17-anti-imperialism-war-and-pe > ace/17063b%2CSACP%2CHowtoMasterSecretWork%2C1980%2Cpart2.pdf?attredirects=0& > d=1> > <https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses2/17-anti-imperialism-war-and-pe > ace/17061%2CPomeroy%2COntheTimeforArmedStruggle%2C1974.pdf?attredirects=0&d= > 1> . > > > > . A PDF file of the reading text is attached > > > > . To download any of the CU courses in PDF files please click here > <https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/> . > > > > > > > > -- > -- > You are subscribed. 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