19 May 2016
On the 18 of May 2016, the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Western Cape`s Provincial Working Committee (PWC) convened at Trade Union house in Athlone. The PWC was also extended to our District Secretaries. Among the issues discussed were; the state of organisation, the SACP`s role in the upcoming Local Government Elections, the current list processes and the onslaught of neo-liberal aggression directed towards our coastal, rural and urban working class communities perpetuated by the Democratic Alliance (DA).
The PWC also paid tribute to the late ANC Overberg Regional Chairperson who passed away on Friday, 13 May 2016 and further conveyed our deepest condolences to the Provincial Secretary of the YCLSA, Comrade Nokuthula Nqaba, who recently lost her mother.
The PWC reflected on current political dynamics and further strengthened the call of: "Communist Cadres to the Front: Unite the Working Class, Our Communities and Our Movement In Action -To Drive a Second, More Radical Phase of our Democratic Transition!"
State of the Organisation
The PWC recognised the need to intensify and strengthen our theoretical tools and its practical application in all our branch and district structures in the Province, this within a challenging political and organisational environment and in the context of the upcoming Local Government Elections. It is through our most basic structure - the branch - that the vanguard party will refocus our programmes and campaigns in leading the working class in all key sties of power and terrains of struggle in defending, deepening, advancing and consolidating the National Democratic Revolution (NDR). The PWC reiterated that any election must be utilised to strengthen the revolutionary alliance and capacitate and grow our membership in influencing the communities we lead. The PWC also deliberated upon the importance of our structures taking responsibility for the NDR and closing ranks against neo-liberal and proto-fascist rhetoric towards the build-up of the local government elections.
Role of the SACP in the upcoming local government elections
As with all of our election campaigns, the SACP will focus on independent programmes that serve to compliment the ANC towards the overwhelming victory in August 2016. In this regard, the Party will immediately strive towards assisting the alliance in implementing a broad campaign strategy that focuses on acting on the aspirations of our local communities and leading their
struggles against the onslaught of DA neo-liberalism.
The PWC also reserved caution towards a narrow focus on list processes, relegating our election campaign as secondary in the context of the approaching elections is a self-defeating process. As the Party, we further reiterate our confidence on the current national guidelines and urge members of the ANC to respect them. Prospective candidates ought to be duty-bound, serve their communities and have a firm grasp of the content and form of the NDR. The Party, however, is concerned with instances in which these processes are viewed as a careerist path to accumulate an income or as mere mechanisms to dispense patronage for factional purposes.
The SACP in the Western Cape reaffirms its commitment to the working class in the province; in taking responsibility and refocusing on leading the daily struggles of the rural and urban poor, in uniting our revolutionary alliance towards a campaigning election programme and in rolling back aggressive neo-liberal advances.
Issued by SACP Western Cape
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