YCLSA Gauteng Province Statement
August 7, 2012 Successful SACP 91st anniversary rally and Cosatu Provincial Congress The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] in the province of Gauteng wishes to congratulate the South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on successful 91st anniversary and provincial congress respectively. SACP 91st anniversary The SACP hosted a highly successful rally in Johannesburg to celebrate its 91st anniversary, yesterday 5 August 2012. We are pleased that the SACP, the oldest Communist Party in our continent and the second oldest political formation in our country has grown into the second largest political formation by membership after the African National Congress. The SACP has grown to over 150 000 members, doubling its membership in just five years between its 12th National Congress held in 2007 and 13th National Congress held last month, July 2012. We regard the tremendous growth of the SACP as a vote of confidence by the workers and the poor of our country in the vanguard character of the Party. The Party earned and will continue to earn its vanguard character through its leadership in the fight for the attainment of the immediate aims and enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class. We are confident through the vanguard role of the SACP that the workers, down trodden and the poor of our country will ultimately prevail over the challenges of unemployment, poverty, inequality and ecological destruction - the single cause of all of which is none other than capitalism. We are encouraged by the intensifying determination of the SACP to lead the struggle to bring to an end the system of capitalism and, as a vanguard of the working class, ensure that capitalism is replaced with a just and humane system of socialism and ultimately communism. Cosatu Gauteng Provincial Congress Cosatu in the province held a successful provincial congress last week from 2 to 4 August 2012 in Johannesburg. The YCLSA participated in this congress as part of the SACP and the Progressive Youth Alliance. We are encouraged by the quality of debates that characterised the congress as noted in the closing address of the newly elected Cosatu Provincial Chairperson Comrade Phuthase Tseki. We welcome congress reaffirmation of the vanguard character of the SACP, the organisational leadership of the ANC to the alliance, the dire need to build the alliance strong and have it functional in action at the local and provincial levels as it is at the national level. We join the SACP in the province in congratulating Cosatu for holding a united congress and electing all its provincial office bearers by consensus. We wish them the best. As the YCLSA we reaffirm our commitment to give no quarter to the wedge drivers, whose intention has been to disrupt the unity of our working class formations, Cosatu and the SACP. We are pleased that Cosatu provincial congress did not allow the wedge-driver's tendency to emerge. We are proud as the YCLSA to have been the leading youth formation in working with Cosatu in the province to advance and defend working class struggles as summarised in the secretariat report presented to congress. We are looking forward to intensifying this work and relationship. For more information contact: Alex Mashilo Provincial Secretary Cell: 082 9200 308 Matankana Mothapo Provincial Spokesperson Cell 082 7590 900 Sent from my iPad -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] 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 [email protected] . 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): [email protected] .
