Paris, July 27, 2011
Dear Comrades,
On the occasion of 90 years of the Communist Party of South Africa, we are very pleased to reaffirm our full solidarity.
On this anniversary we have a thought for fathers and mothers of all our struggles, and especially a thought for those who, in your country, helped to defeat apartheid and build a different future for South Africa. We think of Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani, to Albertina Sisulu whose legacy still inspires thousands of young people in Europe and worldwide.
The progress of your party over the past decade is an encouragement for the Communists and progressives in the world, in Africa but also in France and Europe. This is proof that by dint of struggle, a better life, a more human society is possible despite the frantic quest for profit, exploitation and social violence that result.
The French Communist Party sends his very warm and fraternal greetings. In the common struggle that brings us together against the capitalist system and all policies of domination and predations that accompany the strengthening of our friendship and our cooperation is a necessity. We confirm our determination to develop our mutual relations in this way. We send you our best wishes for success in your struggle for a democratic South Africa.
The French Communist Party
Frontline Africa and Uhuru Spirit Magazine wish to congratulate the South African Communist Party (SACP) as we celebrate 90 years of revolutionary work of this great party of freedom and progress since its foundation was laid in July 31 1921.
The Indian patriot Subhas Chandra Bose told us that "The greatest curse for a man is to remain a slave. The greatest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong." The SACP was at the Frontline in the struggle for Uhuru in South Africa and Africa to see that Africans were freed from the slavery of colonialism and apartheid Gothicism. During those years of fierce struggle, the SACP like other revolutionary movements in Africa lost comrades in battles. There were also other revolutionary fighters of the SACP who spent many years in the apartheid gulag and calaboose, while many others were forced into exile where they intensified efforts in the mobilization of the international community to stand up against the dehumanization and brutalization of Africans by the apartheid monster.
Even today, in the current struggle to address the injustices of the past and the completion of the humanization of Africans, the SACP occupies a Frontline position knowing that nothing other than a socialist South Africa can address the vestiges of apartheid colonialism.
We salute the SACP for the internationalist revolutionary work they are doing in other parts of Africa. The SACP is at the forefront in the struggle for genuine democracy in Swaziland. The SACP has done a lot of work for the resolution of the Zimbabwean quagmire. The SACP is one of the inspirations behind the efforts to launch the Nigerian Socialist Party. The SACP is the bulwark in the current mobilization and re-organization of the left forces in Africa. The SACP is one of the few movements in South Africa who take seriously the need to address the twin-monsters of racism and xenophobia in South Africa. As a conscious movement, the SACP knows that for one to be a true communist or socialist in Africa, one must first of all be a true Pan-Africanist.
We salute the SACP at 90 and we will continue to relate with the SACP as we work together to enthrone sanity, progress, development, peace and unity in our motherland, Africa!
Viva SACP! Viva!!
Hilary Ojukwu (editor, Uhuru Spirit)
Hermon Ogbamichael (Deputy editor, Uhuru Spirit)