SACP Free State Provincial Executive Committee Statement
17 September 2015
The Provincial Executive Committee of the SACP in Free State, blessed by the presence of a fully-fledged Central Committee deployees, met on 13 September 2015 at Bram Fisher Building in Bloemfontein in the Caleb Motshabi District. This PEC observed a moment of silence to honour the communist revolutionary Caleb Motshabi District Chairperson, Comrade Mojela Scara Maswabi who passed away last month.
Quality into Quantity: Developing the SACP as the vanguard party of the working class for socialism
September is the vital month in the organisational calendar of the SACP. The Party is marshalling all its structures, leadership, programmes and membership drive quantitative and qualitative growth in building the capacity if the SACP to advance and deepen working class hegemony in all key sites of struggle.
During this month the SACP is renewing its annual cycle of membership recruitment. This is steeled in political education and ideological training intensified to develop and enhance the political, ideological and technical capacity of party activists, thereby transforming quantity into quality.
As the Party programme the South African Road to Socialism states, the unfolding and future historical periods require the SACP to become a large, independent working class vanguard party which is qualitatively different from a mass organisation. This is the precondition for the Party to engage in and build our alliance to become strong, and to be everywhere the class struggle takes place and lead the working class in alliance with democratic strata of our society towards the achievement of socialism!
Advancing the party of action!
The growth of the SACP did not come out of natural reasons, but through grounded and relevant campaigns which are meant to be change the lives of the workers and the poor for the better as opposed to crises they are continuously being plunged in by capitalism.
The SACP calls on all its members, leaders, structures and supporters in Free State province to strengthen the campaigns. We are forging ahead in deepening our Partys Financial Sector Transformation Campaign. We will fight against corruption, patronage and all the tendencies of self-enrichment!
Distortions about the SACP and its decisions
Endless distortions against the SACP have failed dating back to their origins in colonial and apartheid propagandas there were meant to serve selfish interests of private wealth accumulation. They are bound to fail, again and again! This includes the distortions that are launched from within our own movement not a new phenomenon. The Communist Party has seen a lot and the worst in its 94 years of existence and struggle.
As the province, we want to clarify those that distort the outcomes of the 13th Plenary Session of our Partys 13th Congress Central Committee:
The Central Committee was resolute that all tendencies that seek to or have the effect of weakening our movement, the alliance and its support base, such as corruption, patronage, gate keeping, premature opening of succession debates long before congresses, manipulation of membership forms and data, buying of votes in the run up to and at congresses, etc.; all attempts at factional, corrupt and corporate capture of our movement must be dealt with decisively. The Central Committee, both in its political report and concluding press conference never identified any names of individuals or the positions that they hold.
The SACP never coined the label premier league. Neither did the party use such a lousy label.
On the contrary, the Central Committee made it clear that for the programme against attempts at factional, corrupt and corporate capture of our movement to succeed, anyone involved in such reactionary activities must be confronted at all levels without fear or favour for who they are counterrevolutionaries who will destroy our movement. There is no turning back from this programme!!
As the SACP, arising out of our Special National Congress, we will forge ahead with our strategic priority to unite the working class, our communities, and our movement!!
As we approach local government elections in 2016 and incoming regional conferences, we appeal to the ANC leadership, membership and structures here in the province of Free State to be vigilant of destructive and divisive tendencies. Short-cuts on democracy have proven to be dangerous!
Misdirection about cause of South African Crisis
Convergence of the liberal ideas, reactionaries and opportunists including their like in the commentarian to suggest that the causes of inequality, unemployment and poverty are the ANC-led alliance and President Jacob Zuma has no basis in fact it is only counterrevolutionary.
This converged-blog does not exist for anything progressive but to ferment doubt among the people about the ANC-led Alliance.
Class inequality, unemployment and poverty affecting many people in our country are the necessary conditions, the results and levers of the accumulation of wealth on a capitalist private basis. In South Africa, their racial impact in terms of which Africans in particular and black people in general are the worst affected is a direct result of colonial and apartheid, racist national oppression. The system made use of sexism, involving racist male domination as part of its levers to maximise profit, divide and rule.
The mineral resources and primary goods that should have been processed in South Africa to manufacture finished products were simply extracted and exported by colonial design. This is how instead of developing our countrys productive capacity to its full potential through industrialisation real jobs were exported along with the exports of raw materials. The persisting class inequality, unemployment and poverty in South Africa is therefore a reflection of the legacy of the imperialist development of productive forces mainly in Europe and North America at our country and people.
The historical mission of our alliance is to roll back the structural inequality behind the multiple crises of high levels of unemployment and poverty as well as volatility to economic changes taking out of our country.
This is why, as the SACP we say:
Forward to the second, more radical phase of our democratic transformation!
Along with industrialisation and other structural transformation measures, as the SACP in Free State province we believe that agriculture and farming and the development of their entire agro-processing value chain will take our country forward in the right direction. We are, in strongest terms, opposed to the ongoing irresponsible tendency of farming giants prioritising game-farming over food-production. The SACP stands for food security!!
As the SACP we are calling on the working class and the poor in general to support and the implementation of Agro-parks programmes and be vigilant against corruption. This programme is meant to address fundamental challenges faced by the poor and working class, not individuals who are greedy.
Our immediate international struggle
We note all the political developments including the increasing militarisation of politics taking place in Lesotho. This impacts negatively on ordinary people on the ground.
As the SACP in Free State, charged with the responsibility, we will urgently support the Communist Party of Lesotho as our reliable ally to unite, lead and educate the people on the ground, and to safeguard the development of democracy in that country that is neighbouring our province and with which we share a common language, culture and a people.
Provincial Alliance Summit
We note with great anticipation that the spirit and decisions of the recent national alliance summit will cascade down to the provinces as an effort to build and encourage the necessity of a functional and strong alliance to lead the poor and the working people. This requires unity in action, therefore a programmatic alliance that shares a common perspective: the national democratic revolution!
Issued by the SACP Free State Province
Contact:
Bereng Soke Provincial Secretary
Mobile 082 455 2713
