It is a truism to say: Marxism needs efforts to be studied. But that mere fact does not help, only concrete ways to organize that study help. Self-study can work, but it is mostly without structure. The best would be of course establishing Marxism courses or even an ideological school, like the UPC operates one. That needs a plan of course. First of all, the content of the study. We need to set up a curriculum suiting the Ugandan national
Read moreIt is obvious that Uganda, despite its country name that is derived from Buganda, is not a national state of the Baganda. On Uganda these biblical words are not applying: “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language.”1 Instead Uganda is more like Babylon after the Confusion of Tongues2: There is no native language that could even closely claim to be a majority language. I agree with most points of Comrade Joseph´s important interview on fundamental questions.
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Qn: 1 When have you been founded and what where the circumstances? On 2nd October 2024, we conceived the idea of establishing a strong communist party in Uganda based on the classics of Marxism-Leninism. And to achieve this in short term, was realised that it will be impossible due to the unfair prevailing political circumstances in the country, but can be a long term goal after full mobilization of the masses, giving political education and sensitization so as to raise
Read more“We have the Marxist-Leninist weapon of criticism and self-criticism. We can get rid of a bad style and keep the good.”1 – Mao Zedong Already Paul wrote: “Test all things; hold fast what is good.”2 This idea, as we can see, goes very much along with what Mao said. It is a good principle to critically review practice and theoretical reflections, especially when it comes to oneself. There are comrades who have a hard time exercising self-criticism, they have the
Read moreTrade unions are no new form of organization in Uganda. The National Organization of Trade Unions (NOTU) is the largest trade union organization within Uganda and exists already for more than 50 years. But they are insufficient. They might have over 900.000 working people organized among their ranks, but only very few industrial workers. It is good that over 100.000 transport workers are organized in their ranks, over 160.000 teachers about 130.000 agricultural workers and more than 50.000 workers in
Read moreThe UPC has ten points on its website titled “Aims & Objectives”1. This can be seen as a sort of short program. These points are too less to be called a “program of socialism”. From our perspective the question is if these points are suitable to rally the people for the transitional phase from capitalism to socialism. The Bible says: “Test all things; hold fast what is good.”2 So then, let’s check these ten points up. To build the Republic
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