[YCLSA Discussion] SACP, Cosatu slam ANCYL working class leadership plans

[Dominic Tweedie]

SACP, Cosatu slam ANCYL working class leadership plans     Stephen Grootes, EyeWitness News, Johannesburg, 20 June 2011   Both the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have slammed the ANC Youth League's plans to take over their role in leading the working class. Speaking at the Youth Wings conference in Midrand, Julius Malema said they will target the workplace. He said workers were failed by the very organisations that were supposed to represent them. However, the SACP said the league cannot lead the working class as it is not a workers' organisation. It said the league can only talk about land reform because of the programmes the party started in 2005. Cosatu's Patrick Craven said they reject claims that they are failing in their mandate.  “We are by far the biggest, most powerful and most influential organisation representing the workers and I’m quite confident that we will continue to play that role,” he added. Cosatu leaders will discuss Malema's claims next week.     From: http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=68413     -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com .