10 July 2001
Over the weekend, the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Comrade Blade Nzimande was warmly received when he addressed the 27th National Convention of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA).
In this Convention, the SACP called for the strengthening of the gradual regrouping of communist and workers' parties across the world and the deepening of the long-standing solidarity and bilateral relations between the two countries and Communist Parties. Both the US and South Africa share a similar experience of racism and racial oppression, and a common struggle against racism and its capitalist foundations.
International struggles of the working people and indeed domestically in the US itself are very important, Nzimande told the Convention. Liberal restructuring globally is faced with increasing resistance from ordinary people and progressive forces in the world. We are also now witnessing the fact that the neo-liberal triumphalism of the beginning of the 1990s is waning as the reality of global inequalities become more apparent and cannot be swept under the carpet, continued Nzimande.
The SACP also called for an international left platform of action and solidarity on the defence and extension of the public sector, fighting for access to affordable medicines for developing countries and the intensification of protest actions against the IMF, WTO and the World Bank as part of mobilisation and creating a common purpose of action for a just world order.
The struggles in Seattle, Prague, London and many other struggles worldwide by ordinary people against poverty and exploitation are a reflection of renewed human efforts to intensify the struggles against global injustice and the evils of capitalism. The message from these struggles is simple: capitalism is no solutions to problems facing humanity today, concluded Nzimande.
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