The SACP Gauteng notes the context and posture of yesterday`s protest march, which was in many respects distinct and revolutionary.
Except for a few embarrassing tactical blunders such as the attempt to humiliate the ANC Secretary General Comrade Gwede Mantashe, the march was in the overall disciplined, militant and conducted with integrity.
For us as a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party of the working class, the march dealt yet another decisive and severe blow to a coalition of neo- fascists and right-wing elements including those hiding within the ranks of the broad revolutionary movement.
We are referring to those forces that harboured vainglorious attempts to hijack the legitimate student struggles and protest marches and indulged in sycophancy linked to narrow factional shibboleths and battles internal to the ANC`s politics leading to the year 2017.
These venomous anti-communists, with iconoclastic hatred of socialism, hoped to opportunistically nudge the students protest into the liquidation of the SACP General Secretary, comrade Blade Nzimande as Minister of Higher Education.
To the dismay of these neo-fascists, the students sang and danced pro-communist songs, refuting the neo-fascist narrative and attempts to malign individuals for historic, collective and deep seated societal problems.
The SACP Gauteng Province congratulates students for rolling back this opportunism. Students demonstrated their clear, advanced ideological and political consciousness and that its revolutionary fervour for free access to education, cannot be entrapped through cooption by neo-fascists.
The SACP Gauteng Province will work closely with the revolutionary student movement and working class organizations to take the fight to monopoly capital and the ruling classes to fund higher education.
We will also mobilize students behind the Financial Sector Campaign (FSC), against high student indebtedness to banks and financial monopoly capital. The issue raised by the trade union movement of large offshore university cash reserves, domiciled in tax havens must be tackled as a priority issue. These funds must be put to the service of all students.
We reaffirm our stance on the necessity to urgently impose a moratorium on unilateral fee increments at the behest of reactionary campus management and councils.
Placing a moratorium on fee increments is part of the larger undertaking towards the transformation of higher education and will certainly knock sense into the mindset these narcissistic bourgeois demagogues.
Issued by the SACP Gauteng province
Contact:
Jacob Mamabolo - SACP Gauteng Provincial Secretary
Mobile: 082 884 1868
Lucian Segami - SACP Gauteng Provincial Spokesperson
Mobile: +2779 5220 098
Office: +2711 339 3621/2
Website: www.sacp.org.za
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