Joe Slovo Remembered
The Young Communist League of SA on Monday remembered Joe Slovo as a man who loved education.
The Young Communist League of SA on Monday remembered Joe Slovo as a man who loved education.
"Joe Slovo was also one of those key activists of the SACP whose love for education was unsurpassed, and believed not only in formal education," national secretary Buti Manamela said in a statement. He said Slovo was also a believer of political education andcadre development anchored among the masses beyond sloganeering.
"We are saying this because there also seems to be a fallback into sloganeering when the ability of some of our cadres to make an
informed analysis fails. "We are inundated with slogans such as 'the ANC has failed' and 'the ANC has done nothing for the working class and the poor for the last 20 years'..." He said Monday's commemoration of Slovo's death was a reminder to the youth of the historical connections with past generations and to expose some of the individuals who today wanted to claim that they played no part in advancing apartheid as a system.
"We should also use history in order to prevent our country from falling into the apartheid abyss that it was. But history also reminds us why there are... inequalities among races," he said.The National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) echoed the sentiments.
The union said workers had a responsibility to learn from the past in order to analyse the present and to act strategically to change the future. "To do this, we have to summon from the grave the sensible theoretical contributions of Cde Joe Slovo, who elaborated on the folly of reducing the working class struggle to a single corner in his paper, The South African Working Class and the national democratic revolution," spokesman Sizwe Pamla said.
-Sapa