Northern Cape Province, 17 February 2014 Declaration of the 2nd Provincial Council of the 4th Congress PEC Held from the 15-16 February 2014 The 2nd Provincial Council of the 4th Congress PEC of the South African Communist Party in the Northern Cape Province took place from the 15th - 16 February 2013, in Kimberley. The Provincial Council was attended by more than one hundred and twenty (120) delegates drawn from both the PEC of the SACP and the YCLSA, as well as Districts and Branches of the Party and delegates from COSATU, ANC as well as SANCO. The Provincial Council received comprehensive reports focusing on the work done on the political front, organizationally and on the sustainability of the party in the Province. The Council also received presentations on the elections work as well as a presentation on international, continental and local balance of forces. Most critical to the Council was the assessment of the performance of structures of the Party on implementing its Programme (South African Road to Socialism) since the 4th SACP Provincial Congress and the 13th National Congress. International and Continental Context The Provincial Council deliberated on circumstances pertaining to developments affecting the working class and the poor internationally, as driven by imperial forces and the Breton Woods institutions. The rise in foreign, neo-liberal and imperialist interventions in African states such as CAR, DRC, Mali and South Sudan cannot be left unattended as they are an interruption to independent developments, nationhood and sovereignty of such states. The historical legacy of colonialism in its remnant infrastructure along with numerous other contributory factors, continue to stunt socio-economic growth and create instability on the African Continent. The Party has resolved to strengthen and intensify its role in its solidarity work with the working class, both continentally and internationally, with all fraternal countries, organisations and global working class citizenry and progressives of the world. This is inclusive of but not limited to the struggle of our Palestinian comrades, the on-going campaign for the release of the Cuban 5 from US prisons and the strengthening of ties and cooperation with progressive Latin American states who are constantly being economically, politically and subversively bullied by the imperialist hegemon in North America. Domestic Context The Provincial Council elaborated on the Party's approach towards the 2014 General Elections. Our main task at this moment remains to consolidate working class hegemony across racial lines in all communities. Together with our Alliance partners, the Party aims to work towards an overwhelming victory of the African National Congress in the 2014 General Elections to enable us to continue to defend, deepen and advance the 2nd radical phase of our transition. Resolution of the 2nd Provincial Council of the 4th Congress PEC of the South African Communist Party in the Northern Cape Province are, inter alia: Education The Provincial Council welcomes the intervention of the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Comrade Blade Nzimande, in the on-going resolution of the challenges facing our post-school institutions. The Council further applauded the firmness of the Department of Higher Education to make Education Fashionable by taking colleges to communities. The Provincial Council also welcomed and congratulated the first intake to the Sol Plaatjie University (SPU) as a historical epoch making moment. Health The health system in the province continues to face structural challenges that limit our capacity to respond to the urgent needs of our people. The Party welcomed the DOH efforts of dispatching 38 young people from the Province to undertake the studies of medicine in Cuba. We further wish to encourage the Province to increase its infrastructural capacity and the recruitment of more young people to study nursing and other medical discipline. The council further expressed that all our structures need to continue to work with our progressive government towards the full implementation of the NHI more so for one of the pilot sites located in De Aar. The Workplace The Party's plan to build and strengthen working class hegemony through the continuation of the establishment of workplace and industrial units is another key campaign attached to our 2014 Programme of Action. The Council expressed a need to develop a programme to conscientize workers so that we are able to pursue the objectives of medium term vision (MTV).The party and Cosatu will continue to work together to build industrial units such that we increase the momentum in our deliberate build of Red Unions. The Economy The principal task in this regard is that of radically transforming the current semi-colonial growth path of our economy in order to tackle the triple challenges of unemployment, inequality and poverty and Skills challenges. The working class has to play its vanguard role in this regard to alter the current path characterised by systemic and structural challenges facing our economy. Although we have made some important policy breakthroughs and strides on this front, we need to intensify efforts to transform the economy to be responsive to the needs of the people the working class and the poor. The Province needs to radically break away from the business as usual if it wants to alter the current path which has not being significantly transformed to the benefit of the working class and the poor. The State The state is a critical site of struggle, located as the highest concentration of political power. We must resist the liberal idea that the state is inherently bad and evil. Government as an organ of the state has an important tool in the hands of our people to deepen and advance the radical 2nd phase of our revolutionary project. We must further deepen our efforts for the continued transformation of the state to advance people centred development and foster the building of a developmental state that is responsive to the needs of the working class and the poor. The Community We need to intensify the struggle to build people`s power in our communities where we live, again combining people`s power in the local sphere with local state power. This is a very important sphere of organization and mobilization, in which we should consciously seek to deploy most trusted cadres to also play a broader role in their communities. It is also important that we continuously mobilize on this front, not only when it is election time, we must take charge of community struggles around service delivery to properly locate those as part of our alliance giving leadership to society and close the space for counter revolutionaries and opportunists. The Battle of Ideas Ideological struggles are an integral component of the struggle of the working class against capitalism and to transform the immediate conditions of the workers and the poor. An important component of the battle of ideas is that of contesting the media space. It is always important to remember that the dominant ideas in society are those of those who control the means of production and reproduction of their ideas in society and our resolve is to robustly engage the staple diet continuously given by the commercial media. We commit to build alternative voices in the media to ensure that we built working class consciousness and create our own media platforms and not to be extensions of the liberal and bourgeois media. Elections The SACP in the province will work towards the overwhelming victory of the ANC. Additionally the SACP in the province will make use of the election campaign as a mobilising mechanism to build and strengthen Party structures across the Northern Cape. In taking election forward, the Party will also intensify its discussion forum on a weekly basis in an endeavour to educate communities about democracy and the need for people to exercise their vote in defending their progressive African national congress led alliance government. Alliance The Party's analysis of workerist syndicalist drifts within the organised labour movement will indeed be confronted with the rollout of key campaigns, linked with perennial political and ideological seminars. The party calls on all its structures to defend NUMSA from being swallowed by ultra-left vultures who wish to divide the working class. The Party and COSATU as part of our work in communities will be marching to the Nama Khoi municipality to expose the rot of corruption and maladministration by the DA. The Party also aims to strengthen its relations with COSATU and its affiliates by developing Party units on shop floors and worksites, developing joint programmes and campaigns and cooperating on political education seminars throughout the year. The Party will work with its allies especially COSATU to intensify our campaign of transforming the financial sector to amongst others protect the workers and the poor from unscrupulous financial institutions and mashonisas. As part of further strengthening the full time capacity of the party As per the SACP 13 National Congress Constitutional amendment of having the 2nd Deputy Provincial Secretary, the Provincial Council also filled the position by unanimously electing Cde. Kabelo Mohibidu as the 2nd Deputy Provincial Secretary of the SACP in the Province Conclusion The delegates of council declare that no effort will be spared to continue with our struggle to create a more humane and better people centred world order, and in the immediate we commit to ensure that all our cadres and workers actively step up efforts to ensure a decisive and overwhelming victory for the ANC led Alliance on 7 May 2014 elections, in defence of the revolution and our program to change the lives of our people for the better with and for the working class and the poor. Issued by SACP Northern Cape Contact: Foot Soldier Mogorosi, 073 094 6027 -- -- 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] . 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