Had the Lumumba Institute, which Pinto slaved day and night to establish in 1964 as an ideological training institute for party cadres taken root, we would not have in the twenty first century the pathetic phenomenon where at least two sitting presidents successively abandon the very parties that propelled them to power.
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www.the-star.co.ke/article/bringing-pinto-back-life-2015#sthash.87MEmokE.dpufHistory is full of cases where Revolutionary action, taking the lead on progress in the development of revolutionary consciousness, and thus breaking away from it nourishing source, which is the support and adhesion of the masses, degenerates into an adventure, accumulates failures and ultimately leads to a result contrary to the one anticipated the recession on all fronts of the forces of progress, the questioning of all that had already been achieved, the rejection to a remote and uncertain future of every possibility of resuming the struggle.
[Ahmed Sekou Toure. Strategy and Tactics of the Revolution: Forward. pp. 13-15.]
Membership in the A-APRP (GC) is a process of life-long, revolutionary political study and life-long, revolutionary political work. The A-APRP (GC)’s Process for Membership has two components: study and work, and four levels:
1. Orientation Process for Membership (Up to 6 Months of Study and Work)
2. Pre-Cadre Process for Membership (Up to 18 Months of Study and Work)
3. Support Process for Membership (Life-Long Support)
4. Cadre Process for Membership (Life-Long Study and Work)
a-aprp-gc.org/about/who-we-seek-to-become-our-study-of-revolution/in Ghana one finds radio, tv and newspapers aligned to party positions such that it would be anathema for the acrobats that we see in Kenya happening there, the latest in our motherland being the Kajiado MP aspirants the CORD candidate having been a failure/reject from JAP.
Since its establishment, the school has been working hard to emancipate the mind, carry out reform and innovation, promote the construction of the discipline, the staff team and the curriculum with higher standards, improve the level of teaching and research, strengthen the competitiveness of the discipline, and offer high quality social service so as to ensure the scientific development of the school by leaps and bounds. The goal of the school for the near future is to build the school into a first-class school of Marxism in our country by 2021 and the 100th anniversary of XMU, an important innovation platform for studies in Marxist Theory, an important base for popularizing and teaching Marxist Theory, and an important think tank for decision making of the Party and the government.
www.xmu.edu.cn/en/academic/shmfrom the above one notes that the ruling party in China does not shy away from ensuring that a special purpose school assists it with thinking through its policies, not like us in Kenya where the 'strong man' in power surrounds himself with a kitchen cabinet made up of homeboys preferably from his ethnic enclave running the show as a mafioso hoodlum.
The political party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was formed in connection with the return of multiparty democracy in Ghana in 1992. Formed as a social democratic party, NDC is supportive of a market economy, but countered by a policy of redistribution from rich to poor. In its Constitution, NDC states its philosophy in the following terms: “ The party is a Social Democratic Party that believes in the equality and egalitarian treatment of all persons irrespective of their social, cultural, educational, religious and economic relations in a multi-party environment. “ Since 2005 the NDC has been a full member of the Socialist International, where also Socialdemokraterne are members.
dipd.dk/partnerships/ghana/danish-social-democrats-and-ghanas-national-democratic-congress/the above is a good lesson to our special purpose vehicles (JAP and CORD) to learn from. rather than a sponsor, currently Uhuruto pair for JAB and RAO, Kaloser and Weta trio for CORD whatever their ideologue would allow strong and weak parties to obtain allies from elsewhere with similar ideals to foster working relations as NDC has done with their Danish counterparts who also have a history
The oldest social democratic party in Denmark, the Danish Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) is historically rooted among urban industrial workers. Traditionally the party had strong bonds to the labor unions, but in recent decades this relationship has become less institutionalized than it used to be.
Today, the Social Democrats emphasize the continued importance of maintaining the core elements of the welfare state the party helped build, and the important role of the state in achieving growth. Currently, the Social Democrats is leading a government coalition with the Social-Liberal Party
dipd.dk/about/danish-political-parties/danish-social-democrats/in South Africa one of the newest democracies in Africa they are not left behind with the establishment of Chris Hani Institute after recognizing...
The significance of political education cannot be overemphasised, particularly in this period of heightened ideological contestation. Political training is not only significant for building consciousness but also to ensure all round cadre development. The CHI Political education programme aims to deepen political consciousness and a range of organisational and leadership skills.
www.chi.org.za/Poltical%20education.htmlfor those from countries challenged online institutes exists the one on mind is
The Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute is an online center for education where students and activists alike can study the theory, practice, and history of Marxism-Leninism and its contemporary application. Our mission is to further the revolutionary socialist movement through the widest possible campign of education and the training of cadres which can bring the working masses to the level of revolutionary class-consciousness.
www.marxengelslenin.org/about.html so OO your article is spot on on missed opportunities that have resulted in current quagmire where we have youth being accused of 'radicalization' yet the parties in existence use the same youth for 'thuggish' purposes mainly and in the absence of political consciousness led by current PORK and the moneyed pretenders to the throne waiting for their turn to the big sit we remained rudderless as concerns what do we stand for in pursuit of political power other than primitive accumulation. would it surprise anyone if our own Noriegas aka Kabogo, Kidero, Joho etc. type of governors one day vied to be PORK with their credential of drug dealing being their triumph cards?