SACP Launches 11th Congress Discussions in Free State, Gauteng and Mpumalanga

22 March 2002

Through its Provincial Councils in the Free State, Gauteng and Mpumalanga
Provinces, the South African Communist Party (SACP) will this weekend launch Discussion Documents for its 11th Congress to be held from 24 to 28 July. During April and May, all SACP Provinces will hold similar Provincial Councils.

The 11th Congress will be an opportunity for the SACP to debate and enhance our ongoing political programme. The Congress will focus on building people's power, a people's economy and the party's and the international working class struggle against capitalist globalisation.

The Congress Discussion Documents issued by the SACP Central Committee are available from the SACP website
http://www.sacp.org.za/bua/index.html as Issue 3 of Bua Komanisi (Bua Komanisiis the Information Bulletin of the SACP Central Committee). The end product of this democratic discussion process will be a revised and updated Political Programme of the SACP for adoption by the 11th Congress.

The discussion notes are divided into the following chapters:

• A socialist approach to the consolidation of the National Democratic
  Revolution
  
• The South African Revolution in its International Context
  
• Building a People's Economy
  
• Transformation of the State
  
• The Strategy and Tactics of the SACP in the National Democratic Revolution
  

The SACP Central Committee has also commissioned further discussion papers
on Gender Equality, Youth, a Party Building Strategy, and an SACP Programme
and Policy Document on HIV/AIDS.

This Congress of the leading socialist party in our country, will help to
stimulate wider debate and discussion in our country, not least in an
evolving global situation in which the erstwhile triumphalism of
neo-liberalism is more and more challenged by a wide range of forces. The
SACP invites all its cadres and structures, our alliance partners, workers,
poor people, the unemployed, progressive civil society, the media, the
country as a whole, and our international allies to use the discussions and
build-up to the 11th Congress to advance working class confidence as a basis
for a transition to socialism and consolidate the international working
class struggle.

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South African Communist Party

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