This is what is expected of revolutionary organisations, to appreciate the challenges & know better that aknowledging the fundamental reality that confronting our own weaknesses & contradictions is form of struggle that cannot be overlooked. All what is crystal clear is that workers demand their Vanguard that does not find itself taking problematic & neutral ideological stances.
Above all what is interesting is joint program of action agreed upon, all the 14 mentioned terms of reference or areas of work are appeasing to us who are restless due to disintergration & lack of orientation witnessed lately in our quest to pull cohesive programs. However i am humbled by the issue of taking forward the perspective that the alliance should be the political centre, on this one we should not be apologetic. We on the ground, we are prepared & ready to do our part. If we succeed on building political education & ideological capacity, convening socialist forums, joint recruitment programs, convening of the conference of the left & redefining the platform from which nationalisation should be driven from & the direction it should take, we will go a long way in making impact in realising our dream, dream of socialism in our lifetime. This was first class diagnosis of our weaknesses & solutions moving forward. *Cde Castro pass our regards & gratitute to the leadership of NUMSA & SACP for showing leadership at the time when we are being conflicted & compromised, our detractors laughing & starting to celebrate our frustrations. But I know for sure that every time when we are challenged, all what we need to do is to beat our own egos & overcome our ownselves, put the interests of the workers & the poor ahead of every thing. Unity forever!. We cant wait the day we will celebrate the 2 million membership of the SACP, not just membership but politically educated & ideologically capacited to revive the gory days of Cde Slovo, Hani etc & save the soul of the ANC from vampires. * ** Perhaps we should not vilify the ANCYL, but bring them closer to us & credit them for having being brave enough to say nationalisation is the future. I am impressed by the NUM stance on nationalisation. If through our political education we manage to touch even membership of the ANCYL, we do not need street fighting to knock it in the heads of YL that their blanket or wholesale nationalisation is not an answer. Cdes maybe we should open debate about NUM's stance. Final position paper of NUM prefer the model based on strategic equity. In terms of the model a state mining company should be operationalised & used as a Govt vehicle to invest only in strategic minerals such as platinum, coal, uranium, iron ore & manganese. NUM believe that with the development & implementation of a beneficiation & mining strategy, the country could use platinum to develop more capacity on the manufacturing of component parts for cars & jet engines. The country could also nationalise iron mines& acelor mittal SA to mitigate & cushion steel prices which would be beneficial in SA's industrialisation programme. The Model should encompass a majority shareholding position of 50% pls one & establishment of joint ventures or partnerships of 25% equity plus one share.The model further envisaged broadbased ownership for historically disadvantaged groups through dedicated mining unit trusts or employee share ownership programmes as enshrined in the mining charter. The proceeds from such mining activities by the state should then be ring-fenced for education, health, rural development at 20% respectively as well as re-investment in to the state mining company at 40%. The difference between NUM perspective & the ANCYL is based on the premise that the NUM wants the ANC to take a resolution on nationalisation as as economic policy option of both the ANC & the Govt. This would ensure that the ANC was not faced with a challenge in the future in which it would have to make sectoral nationalisation resolutions. Num also differed on the property clause, it provides that the amendment to this clause should also not be specific to the mines but rather broad to include other monopoly industries. This would ensure that in the future the state did not have to alter legislation to implement expropriation for each sector. Cdes I am impressed by the above position of our trusted leftwing force, lets soldier on as workers & provide leadership, like Malema said nature does not allow vacuum. Communist Regards Malekate On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Phuti <[email protected]> wrote: > A Right to reply: Numsa believes SACP should lead working class > > *Castro Ngobese* > > Numsa has taken note of the recent attacks levelled against the Numsa > general secretary under the guise that Irvin Jim, together with Zwelinzima > Vavi, the Cosatu general secretary, are leading an offensive against the > SACP, its general secretary and national chairperson for purposes of regime > change. > > Themba Msomi, who claims to be a Numsa member, has now joined this chorus > with his article in *The New Age *newspaper on June 16. > > Whereas we believe that Themba Msomi does not exist in person and whereas > Numsa’s membership system does not show such a person as belonging to Numsa, > we nevertheless believe that voices inside of the SACP are generating a > record on how Numsa and the Cosatu leadership (allegedly through Irvin Jim > and Zwelinzima Vavi) are driving a supposedly ultra-leftist and “workerist” > agenda in the current phase of our national democratic revolution. > > The leaking of the Cosatu central committee secretariat report to the > Sunday Times and other media houses is a case in point. > > For the record, Numsa and its current leadership and constitutional > structures, firmly subscribe to the perspective that the national democratic > revolution is the shortest route to socialism and that the SACP is the > vehicle of workers and the working class to lead the struggle for the > emancipation of the working class in a socialist South Africa. No apologies > made. > > It is matter of record that Numsa’s central committee has expressed serious > concern with a number of problematic and neutral ideological stances taken > by the SACP. > > This has been on a number of fronts such as its response to, among other > things, the uncritical welcoming of the 2010 state of the nation address, > uncritical response to the 2010 national budget speech, the party’s absence > and leadership presence in the living wage struggles, which happened during > 2010, including the public sector strike and the welcoming of the New Growth > Path. > > Our critique of SACP positions cannot be construed by some mischievous and > faceless individuals to mean that we do not regard the SACP as the vanguard > of the working class or as having abandoned the struggle for socialism. > > On the contrary, the Numsa national office bearers had a highly successful > bilateral with SACP leadership wherein we agreed to undertake the following > joint work: > > 1. Analyses of the South African domestic situation and the global > capitalist crises; > > 2. Analysing the pre- and post-Polokwane situation; > > 3. Dealing with corruption and making abuse of state power a key priority; > > 4. Nationalisation; > > 5. Engaging with Numsa’s draft socialist report; > > 6. Taking forward the perspective that the alliance should be the political > centre; > > 7. Convening of a conference of the left; > > 8. Increasing membership of the SACP and the role of metalworkers through > establishment of industrial units and political schools; > > 9. Release of the SACP recruitment team to work with Numsa on joint cadre > development and political education; > > 10. Joint work on research; > > 11. Joint work on political education and ideological capacity building > programmes; > > 12. Focusing and giving direction to leaderless communities protesting > around service delivery; > > 13. Convening socialist forums; and > > 14. Providing much needed resources for the SACP. > > In this regard, Themba Msomi misses the plot. When Irvin Jim participates > and articulates positions in public, he does so not in his personal capacity > but as the democratically elected general-secretary of Numsa and lead > representative of Numsa’s national executive committee and central > committee. > > We continue to champion the struggle for the banning of labour brokers and > would want to see Cosatu, the SACP and the ANC leading all of society in the > eradication of this practice of modern day slavery. > * > Castro Ngobese, spokesperson for Numsa, responds to an opinion piece that > appeared in The New Age on June 16, 2011 > * > http://www.thenewage.co.za/blogdetail.aspx?mid=186&blog_id=%20802 > > -- > You are subscribed. 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