AFRICAN COMMUNIST | September 2011 advance, deepen and defend our democratic opening – and particularly now on the terrain of social and economic transformation. In this way, and only in this way, will we honour the memory of the hundreds of thousands of South African communists, the well-known and the lesser known, who together built and sustained our Communist Party over 90 fighting years. +
Arab Spring – as if there were something inherently wrong with a popular revolt, and as if we had not already led several decades of semi-insurrectionary popular struggle. But the warning is appropriate if it reminds us that bureaucratic complacency is impermissible. Seventeen years after our democratic breakthrough it is absolutely imperative that we continue to mobilise both state power and working class and popular power to
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