Dear comrades :
Thank you for the kind invitation for our Party to be represented at your 13thNational Congress, which is to take place at the University of Zululand at Kwadlangeza on July 11-15. While we regret our inability to send a representative, we have the honor of sending our warmest fraternal greetings to your 13thNational Congress.
On this occasion, we salute the multi-racial founders and leaders of the SACP, many of whom have been martyred or have endured grave sufferings under the abominable system of apartheid. We salute the SACP`s valiant struggles against apartheid, and your great strides in winning national power in alliance with the ANC and the COSATU and in advancing the country`s national democratic revolution.
While recalling the worldwide solidarity that the SACP drew upon in its long and heroic struggle against apartheid, we salute the SACP`s internationalist solidarity with all progressive forces fighting against imperialism and reaction for democracy and socialism. We particularly admire the SACP`s efforts at forging African unity for continent-wide resistance against the US-AFRICOM and NATO war plans, for continent-wide independent progress and social justice.
Finally, we thank you for sending "The South African Road to Socialism" (the Draft Political Programme of the SACP for 2012-2017) which outlines your national-democratic path to socialism, and which contains many lessons in alliance-building and governance which are relevant to our own struggles.
We wish every success to your 13th National Congress. Amandla !
With Communist greetings,
ANTONIO E. PARIS
General Secretary