Posted on 12/08/2013 9:06:32 AM PST by kristinn
“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
Last night, the millions of the people of South Africa, majority of whom the working class and poor, and the billions of the rest of the people the world over, lost a true revolutionary, President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Tata Madiba.
The South African Communist Party joins the people of South Africa and the world in expressing its most sincere condolences to Ms. Graca Machel and the entire Mandela family on the loss of what President Zuma correctly described as South Africa’s greatest son, Comrade Mandela.
We also wish to use this opportunity to express our solidarity with the African National Congress, an organisation that produced him and that he also served with distinction, as well as all his colleagues and comrades in our broader liberation movement. As Tata Madiba said, “It is not the kings and generals that make history but the masses of the people, the workers, the peasants. …”
The passing away of Comrade Mandela marks an end to the life of one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century, who fought for freedom and against all forms of oppression in both their countries and globally. As part of the masses that make history, Comrade Mandela’s contribution in the struggle for freedom was located and steeled in the collective membership and leadership of our revolutionary national liberation movement as led by the ANC — for he was not an island. In Comrade Mandela we had a brave and courageous soldier, patriot and internationalist who, to borrow from Che Guevara, was a true revolutionary guided by great feelings of love for his people, an outstanding feature of all genuine people’s revolutionaries.
At his arrest in August 1962, Nelson Mandela was not only a member of the then underground South African Communist Party, but was also a member of our Party’s Central Committee. To us as South African communists, Comrade Mandela shall forever symbolise the monumental contribution of the SACP in our liberation struggle. The contribution of communists in the struggle to achieve the South African freedom has very few parallels in the history of our country. After his release from prison in 1990, Comrade Madiba became a great and close friend of the communists till his last days.
The one major lesson we need to learn from Mandela and his generation of leaders was their commitment to principled unity within each of our Alliance formations as well as the unity of our Alliance as a whole and that of the entire mass democratic movement. Their generation struggled to build and cement the unity of our Alliance, and we therefore owe it to the memory of Comrade Madiba to preserve the unity of our Alliance. Let those who do not understand the extent to which blood was spilt in pursuance of Alliance unity be reminded not to throw mud at the legacy and memory of the likes of Madiba by being reckless and gambling with the unity of our Alliance.
The SACP supported Madiba’s championing of national reconciliation. But national reconciliation for him never meant avoiding tackling the class and other social inequalities in our society, as some would like to make us believe today. For Madiba, national reconciliation was a platform to pursue the objective of building a more egalitarian South African society free of the scourge of racism, patriarchy and gross inequalities. And true national reconciliation shall never be achieved in a society still characterized by the yawning gap of inequalities and capitalist exploitation.
In honour of this gallant fighter, the SACP will intensify the struggle against all forms of inequality, including intensifying the struggle for socialism, as the only political and economic solution to the problems facing humanity.
For the SACP, the passing away of Madiba must give all those South Africans who had not fully embraced a democratic South Africa, and who still in one way or the other hanker to the era of white domination, a second chance to come to terms with a democratic South Africa founded on the principle of majority rule.
We call upon all South Africans to emulate his example of selflessness, sacrifice, commitment and service to his people.
The SACP says, “Hamba kahle Mkhonto!” [“Go well, brave warrior!”]
S. Africa Communist Party statement about Nelson Mandela ping.
Zero, Bush and Clinton is this the guy to which you want to pay respect?
Pop culture demands it. LOL! Don’t suppose we’ll see any type of expose on this commie pos in the lame stream press cycle anytime soon. (read-ever!) Thankfully there are some out here who know what we think is the true story.
“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
A quote from Che with a Mandela story.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Here.....I’ll help them out with some other communist quotes.
“Put plastic bags over their heads if they don’t work hard enough.”
“Pretty hard for those Ukranians to complain after they’re starved to death.”
“China will take a Great Leap Forward!.....and squish some peasants.”
“You’re paying your workers $300 a month? Come to the socialist paradise of Vietnam, and you only pay $100 a month! Well, and an extra $50 to the party. We need new Mercedes.”
All the people that Mandela would’ve terrorized and murdered are celebrating his death.
Well, yeah. We've known all along Zippy and Fatso were America hating commies. We just didn't know this about Jorge Busho till sometime after 9/11 with his open borders, "compassionate conservatives", and "MooseSlime is a religion of peace treason.
In answer to your question, you betcha! They want to commemorate the life of the Barely-Cold-Commmie.
LOL! That's a real rib-splitter! I guess Joe Stalin and Pol Pot "loved" their millions ... to death.
Unknown Evidence from the Soviet Archives: What organization did Nelson Mandela belong to? Why is it so important? –
By CCDn / December 9, 2013
The Soviet documents clearly show the true nature of the activities of the African National Congress of the South Africa, which Mandela belonged to. Without them the image of the Nelson Mandela would not be complete.
Nelson Mandela who died last week was touted as an hero by the global media. In our times when esthetical, scientific and even moral authority is television, the half-truth established by the visual means seems hard to be erased or even corrected. An unreality of the television image very often becomes more real than true life.
Such is the case of Nelson Mandela. It is true that as the President of South Africa he made some wise decisions such as formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. There the perpetrators of crimes after admission and apology were being granted pardon. That was however not his idea.
Mandela was rightfully accused of his involvement in the terrorism and being a member of the Communist party. While the latter was proved recently by the scholars, the top-secret Soviet documents show that the African National Congress of the South Africa (AFC) was supported by the Soviet Union. In fact the AFC was the Soviet instrument of its foreign policy. The unlimited goal of it was to conquer the world with any tactics, including terrorism.
How could it have been?
We need to return to the history of the Soviet Union. It is impossible to understand its activity without first learning about its nature. This is key for understanding the role of the African National Congress of South Africa in the buildup of the Communism. Vladimir Bukovsky, the Russian dissident and the author of numerous publications on the Communist Soviet system emphasizes that the ANC was in fact the Communist Party of South Africa along with the other organization which had the name of the Communist Party. “It was double head organism – the same people led those groups” – he says.
Soviet Type of Foreign Relations
The Communist Party in non-Communist state was more important than its Foreign Ministry. As Dr. John Lenczowski an expert in the strategic policy explained the Soviet Union was the revolutionary state pursuing the Marxism Leninism. According to this ideology the state was an instrument of exploitation of the people. Why did the Soviet Union did exist? This question must be answered with preceding statement that the Soviet Union was not a normal state. The institution of the normal state such as the Soviet foreign ministry were a temporary arrangement aimed to deceive West into believing that USSR was not a revolutionary state.
The Soviet Union, however, as a revolutionary was devoted to promoting a “new form of international relations”: “proletarian internationalism.” This concept described relations that would no longer be conducted between “states”—since the state, according to Marxism-Leninism, was the instrument of the oppressor class—but rather between “peoples.”
Thus as an appropriate Russian term ‘Mezhdunarodnaya otnosheniia’ suggests there were “relations between peoples”.
As a practical matter, for the Soviets, this meant relations between the proper representatives of the people: the communist parties.
The Soviets would contact with the African National Congress through the International Department which was the successor of the Communist International (“Comintern”). The department continued bringing about the revolutionary transformation of non-communist states to the Soviet model of communism.
As Dr. Lenczowski concludes:
These new communist states would then recognize the Soviet Party-state as a legitimate regime, thus ending their potential ideological threat to Soviet rule. The ongoing attempt to promote communist takeovers required a massive investment in the ideological warfare.
It included propaganda, material and military assistance to the various Marxist-oriented revolutionary movements. One of them was in fact the African National Congress.
There is plenty of evidence, which has proven this claim. It is worthy to look at the most precious documents of the highest levels of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (ANC). We obtained three such documents from 1974, 1979 and 1980: thirteen pages of top secret documents signed by the Members of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the comrades from the African National Congress of the South Africa.
Moscow Forges Documents for ANC
On June 6th, 1974 the General Secretary of the ANC U. Dadu asked Moscow for one hundred forged, blank passports of Swaziland. What for? Dadu explained that “the ANC activists”, terrorists, are extensively travelling around Africa. The ANC was trying to set up the terrorist camp in Mozambique. As Dadu had explained in his letter, the ANC terrorists would conceal themselves better travelling via third countries to Mozambique. As he said Swaziland passport would be an ideal solution for them.
“Arrival from Swaziland to Mozambique would look like a normal situation” – he had explained. Dadu to his letter attached a copy of the Swaziland passport. He also provided a copy of the stamp of the Immigration Office of Swaziland to be forged by Russians.
On June 16th, 1974 the Deputy to the Director of the International Department R. Ulyanovskiy sent his letter on behalf of the ANC to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As he explained: “Swaziland borders with the South Africa. Many of the South Africans were travelling to work there. The Soviet Union has no diplomatic ties with this state.” Ulyanovskiy was convinced that “it is important” that the Soviets would provide the forged documents to the ANC. The forgery was supposed to be responsibility of the KGB – he had explained. The KGB official at the Council of Ministers of the Russian government Comrade Tsvigun had a positive opinion about this request.
The Decision of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarding the provision of forged passports to the leadership of the African National Congress of the South Africa. August 19th, 1974.Top Secret.
On July 17th, 1974 the Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ordered the KGB would provide hundred of the forged passports with stamps to the leaders of the ANC in three months.
Another set of documents comes from June and July of 1979.
On June 18th 1979 the top leadership requested the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for “a brotherly help”. This letter is signed by Comrade Alfred Nzo, the General Secretary of the African National Congress of the South Africa, a successor to Comrade Dadu. What was his request?
Moscow Delivers Man Portable Missile Launchers
In the beginning of 1979, as Nzo wrote, president of the African National Conference of the South Africa, Oliver Tambo met with the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Zambia Vasiliy Solodovnikov to discuss the air-strike of the military forces of the South Africa against the terrorist training camps run by the African National Congress in Angola. Tambo asked Soviets for the air-defense systems. He informed the Soviet Ambassador that the government of Angola was not able to provide such help to the ANC terrorist camps. The government of Angola agreed that the ANC would support itself with such a military measures.
In his letter sent on June 18, 1979 the General Secretary of the ANZ, Comrade Nzo, described this meeting and presented his shopping list: eight machine gun batteries of ZGU-1 and seven machine gun batteries of ZGU-2 , a heavy machine guns designed to destroy aerial targets; 90 thousand of pieces of ammunition; 200 pieces of Strela (SAM-7) a man portable, shoulder-fired, surface to air missile launchers and the radar systems. Nzo suggested that Moscow would organize the military training for the sixty one comrades from Africa in September of that year. In this letter Ngo informs that representative of the Soviet Embassy in Zambia said to him that the Soviet military experts can train the ANC terrorist in operating of the Strela, a missile launcher. Thirty ANC terrorists should fly to Russia to be trained in ZGU the air-defense systems. This letter was translated by A. Urnov and registered on June 29th, 1979.
Ngo sent his letter through the diplomatic mail via Embassy of the Soviet Union in Zambia. The Soviet Ambassador V. Solodovnikov wrote a covering letter on June 20th, 1979 to the International Department (note that the official of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign affairs, Soviet diplomat, is contacting the Comrades at the International Department not at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Soviet diplomat supported the Ngo’s request. Ambassador reminded the Comrades from the International Department that he not only informed them in the telegram about the meeting with the ANC Secretary Tambo but also he sent the Minutes of this discussion, too.
On July 4th, 1979 the Deputy-Secretary of the International Department K. Vrutents explains even better the case of the military assistance to the ANC in his letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His letter is highly educative: “The Communist Party of Angola (CPA) is the democratic-revolutionary party [see: a tautology in this phrase: democrat cannot be revolutionist but it means that communist party which are being called “democrats” will organize revolution to impose the communist system in Angola] which is fighting with the racist regime of the South Africa. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union stays in friendly relations with the CPA and shows different kinds of help.” The opinion of the International Department obliged the Soviet government which is an instrument of the Communist Party. Comrade Vrutents continues: “The International Department advises the Department of Defense to provide assistance and to present a plan for it to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet in one month”.
Nelson Mandela who died last week was touted as an hero by the global media. In our times when esthetical, scientific and even moral authority is television, the half-truth established by the visual means seems hard to be erased or even corrected. An unreality of the television image very often becomes more real than true life.
Such is the case of Nelson Mandela. It is true that as the President of South Africa he made some wise decisions such as formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
There the perpetrators of crimes after admission and apology were being granted pardon. That was however not his idea.
Mandela was rightfully accused of his involvement in the terrorism and being a member of the Communist party. While the latter was proved recently by the scholars, the top-secret Soviet documents show that the African National Congress of the South Africa (AFC) was supported by the Soviet Union. In fact the AFC was the Soviet instrument of its foreign policy. The unlimited goal of it was to conquer the world with any tactics, including terrorism.
How could it have been?
We need to return to the history of the Soviet Union. It is impossible to understand its activity without first learning about its nature. This is key for understanding the role of the African National Congress of South Africa in the buildup of the Communism. Vladimir Bukovsky, the Russian dissident and the author of numerous publications on the Communist Soviet system emphasizes that the ANC was in fact the Communist Party of South Africa along with the other organization which had the name of the Communist Party. “It was double head organism – the same people led those groups” – he says.
Soviet Type of Foreign Relations
The Communist Party in non-Communist state was more important than its Foreign Ministry. As Dr. John Lenczowski an expert in the strategic policy explained the Soviet Union was the revolutionary state pursuing the Marxism Leninism. According to this ideology the state was an instrument of exploitation of the people. Why did the Soviet Union did exist? This question must be answered with preceding statement that the Soviet Union was not a normal state. The institution of the normal state such as the Soviet foreign ministry were a temporary arrangement aimed to deceive West into believing that USSR was not a revolutionary state.
The Soviet Union, however, as a revolutionary was devoted to promoting a “new form of international relations”: “proletarian internationalism.” This concept described relations that would no longer be conducted between “states”—since the state, according to Marxism-Leninism, was the instrument of the oppressor class—but rather between “peoples.”
Thus as an appropriate Russian term ‘Mezhdunarodnaya otnosheniia’ suggests there were “relations between peoples”.
As a practical matter, for the Soviets, this meant relations between the proper representatives of the people: the communist parties.
The Soviets would contact with the African National Congress through the International Department which was the successor of the Communist International (“Comintern”). The department continued bringing about the revolutionary transformation of non-communist states to the Soviet model of communism.
As Dr. Lenczowski concludes:
These new communist states would then recognize the Soviet Party-state as a legitimate regime, thus ending their potential ideological threat to Soviet rule. The ongoing attempt to promote communist takeovers required a massive investment in the ideological warfare.
It included propaganda, material and military assistance to the various Marxist-oriented revolutionary movements. One of them was in fact the African National Congress.
There is plenty of evidence, which has proven this claim. It is worthy to look at the most precious documents of the highest levels of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (ANC). We obtained three such documents from 1974, 1979 and 1980: thirteen pages of top secret documents signed by the Members of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the comrades from the African National Congress of the South Africa.
Moscow Forges Documents for ANC
On June 6th, 1974 the General Secretary of the ANC U. Dadu asked Moscow for one hundred forged, blank passports of Swaziland. What for? Dadu explained that “the ANC activists”, terrorists, are extensively travelling around Africa. The ANC was trying to set up the terrorist camp in Mozambique. As Dadu had explained in his letter, the ANC terrorists would conceal themselves better travelling via third countries to Mozambique. As he said Swaziland passport would be an ideal solution for them. “Arrival from Swaziland to Mozambique would look like a normal situation” – he had explained. Dadu to his letter attached a copy of the Swaziland passport. He also provided a copy of the stamp of the Immigration Office of Swaziland to be forged by Russians.
On June 16th, 1974 the Deputy to the Director of the International Department R. Ulyanovskiy sent his letter on behalf of the ANC to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As he explained: “Swaziland borders with the South Africa. Many of the South Africans were travelling to work there. The Soviet Union has no diplomatic ties with this state.” Ulyanovskiy was convinced that “it is important” that the Soviets would provide the forged documents to the ANC. The forgery was supposed to be responsibility of the KGB – he had explained. The KGB official at the Council of Ministers of the Russian government Comrade Tsvigun had a positive opinion about this request. –
On July 17th, 1974 the Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ordered the KGB would provide hundred of the forged passports with stamps to the leaders of the ANC in three months.
Another set of documents comes from June and July of 1979.
On June 18th 1979 the top leadership requested the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for “a brotherly help”. This letter is signed by Comrade Alfred Nzo, the General Secretary of the African National Congress of the South Africa, a successor to Comrade Dadu. What was his request?
Moscow Delivers Man Portable Missile Launchers
In the beginning of 1979, as Nzo wrote, president of the African National Conference of the South Africa, Oliver Tambo met with the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Zambia Vasiliy Solodovnikov to discuss the air-strike of the military forces of the South Africa against the terrorist training camps run by the African National Congress in Angola. Tambo asked Soviets for the air-defense systems. He informed the Soviet Ambassador that the government of Angola was not able to provide such help to the ANC terrorist camps. The government of Angola agreed that the ANC would support itself with such a military measures.
In his letter sent on June 18, 1979 the General Secretary of the ANZ, Comrade Nzo, described this meeting and presented his shopping list: eight machine gun batteries of ZGU-1 and seven machine gun batteries of ZGU-2 , a heavy machine guns designed to destroy aerial targets; 90 thousand of pieces of ammunition; 200 pieces of Strela (SAM-7) a man portable, shoulder-fired, surface to air missile launchers and the radar systems. Nzo suggested that Moscow would organize the military training for the sixty one comrades from Africa in September of that year. In this letter Ngo informs that representative of the Soviet Embassy in Zambia said to him that the Soviet military experts can train the ANC terrorist in operating of the Strela, a missile launcher. Thirty ANC terrorists should fly to Russia to be trained in ZGU the air-defense systems. This letter was translated by A. Urnov and registered on June 29th, 1979.
Ngo sent his letter through the diplomatic mail via Embassy of the Soviet Union in Zambia. The Soviet Ambassador V. Solodovnikov wrote a covering letter on June 20th, 1979 to the International Department (note that the official of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign affairs, Soviet diplomat, is contacting the Comrades at the International Department not at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Soviet diplomat supported the Ngo’s request. Ambassador reminded the Comrades from the International Department that he not only informed them in the telegram about the meeting with the ANC Secretary Tambo but also he sent the Minutes of this discussion, too.
On July 4th, 1979 the Deputy-Secretary of the International Department K. Vrutents explains even better the case of the military assistance to the ANC in his letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His letter is highly educative: “The Communist Party of Angola (CPA) is the democratic-revolutionary party [see: a tautology in this phrase: democrat cannot be revolutionist but it means that communist party which are being called “democrats” will organize revolution to impose the communist system in Angola] which is fighting with the racist regime of the South Africa. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union stays in friendly relations with the CPA and shows different kinds of help.”
The opinion of the International Department obliged the Soviet government which is an instrument of the Communist Party. Comrade Vrutents continues: “The International Department advises the Department of Defense to provide assistance and to present a plan for it to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet in one month”.
In June 12th, 1979 the formal request for the military assistance to the CPA was presented to the Office of the Central Committee. This two page document was given a number CT-167/12ge on June 12th, 1979 when nine of the ninth of the members of the Central Committee “voted“ for it in one accord.
On August 28th, 1979 the decision was made by the top leaders, the Political Office of the Central Committee and signed by the General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev – says the top secret Communist Party’s protocol No. 167 and 12gs.
KGB does the training for the ANC peacemakers
The other document dated December 5th, 1980 is a Decision of the Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nine of the nine Members of the Central Committee signed an order for the KGB to organize the course on “the Party’s Techniques”. A Communist Party unlike normal political party was subversive organization which run illegal activities inside the democratic states. The ANC wanted to send “its trusted comrade” for such six weeks training to Moscow. As the document says the KGB would provide the travel assistance, accommodation and cover the expenses of the participant.
This is an answer on the request which the ANC leadership sent via diplomatic mail “through the Soviet Ambassador from the city of Maputu in special telegram no. 738 on November 18th, 1980”. (as the other top-secret document of the Central Committee from November 28th, 1980 states). The course on “the Party Techniques” would be run by the trainers from the International Department. This document was signed by the Deputy to the Director of the International Department V. Zagladin who informed that the Deputy of KGB V. M. Chebrikov “was in agreement with him”.
Those Soviet documents clearly show the true nature of the activities of the African National Congress of the South Africa, which Mandela belonged to. They are encouraging a reader to view the problem of racism in its full political context of those times. Without them the image of the Nelson Mandela would not be complete.
Tom Pompowski – Editor
Moscow of the 70’s and 80’s was in a different world than it is today. Now America is looking more like the Moscow of days gone by.
But, thanks for the history lesson anyway.
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