From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Sun Dec 06 2009 - 10:28:58 EST
TPLF/EPRDF's Strategies for Establishing its Hegemony & Perpetuating its
Rules
06/12/2009
http://medhin.org/Archive/Articlesarchive/Revolutionary%20Democracy-TPLF%27s
_10112009.pdf
Our Revolutionary Democratic Goals and the Next Step
I. Introduction
We have been struggling for our revolutionary democratic goals. In general,
today's conditions are conducive for realizing our goals but this doesn't
mean that we can
realize all our goals during the current Transition Period. It just means
that we can fulfill
the objectives of the Transitional Phase to the extent that conditions allow
us to do so,
and once the Transition Period is successfully completed, we will start
fully
implementing our Program.
Since the last EPRDF Congress, there have been major changes around the
world
and in our country. In the course of our attempts to implement our Program,
we are
forced by internal and external circumstances to adjust our approach in
response to these
major changes. The aim of this adjustment cannot and should never be to do
away with
the pillars of our Revolutionary Democracy or to undermine our popular and
democratic
character. It just means that while maintaining the pillars of our
Revolutionary
Democracy, we need to make a few adjustments so that we will be able to come
out
victorious under the circumstances prevailing in our country and around the
world. On
the other hand, if the goals that were formulated in general terms have to
be translated
into reality, they have to be defined in detail. They have to be enriched on
the basis of
our experiences during the Transition Period. Furthermore, the strategies
and tactics for
realizing them have to be identified and presented in clear terms. This is
the objective of
this document....