Thursday, 26 May 2005
The South African Communist Party (SACP) will be joining and fully supporting COSATU?s rolling mass action to fight the job loss bloodbath in our country. Our Special National Congress in April and our Central Committee this month, continued to express concerns about the continuing job loss bloodbath and subsequent growth in poverty. Our Special National Congress in particular committed our Party to a struggle for a new growth path, away from the current one that is shedding jobs and not creating adequate new quality jobs.
In addition our Special National Congress called for an intensification of the struggles of the workers and the poor in order to make the second decade of our freedom, a decade of the workers and the poor. We see this rolling mass action as an important dimension in the struggle towards the realisation of this goal. For the SACP this rolling mass action is also part of the continuing struggle to build the capacity of the broader working class as a key motive force for our revolution.
The capitalist class has generally benefited handsomely from our democracy, but have failed to use this to contribute towards meaningful growth and development in our country. Instead they have responded by retrenching, casualising and outsourcing workers. It is clear that the capitalist class is incapable of leading any sustained effort towards growth and development. It is therefore essential for the working class to build its power and seek to lead a process of growth and development for the benefit of the workers and the poor.
The SACP will also use this action to take forward and integrate its own campaigns on the financial sector, land and building of sustainable livelihoods for poor households and communities. To this end we shall mobilise all the mass and other progressive organisations that we work with in our other campaigns to also mobilise for and join COSATU?s rolling mass action.
In the next two weeks the SACP will be convening a meeting of its entire provincial and district secretaries to concretise the implementation of our Special National Congress resolutions. We shall also now use this meeting to plan SACP mobilisation in support of the COSATU action in all parts of our country.
We call upon all our structures of the SACP, and generally all the workers and the poor of our country to support the jobs and poverty eradication campaign of COSATU.
Make the second decade of our freedom, a decade of the workers and the poor!
Issued by:
Blade Nzimande
General Secretary
For further information:
Contact:
Kaizer Mohau
Tel: 011 339 3621/2
Fax: 011 339 4244/6880
Cell: 073 571 7528
Email: Kaizer@sacp.org.za
Website: www.sacp.org.za