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SACP Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee, 18 February 2014 SACP Gauteng Press Statement SACP Gauteng presents a Summary of Decisions of the PEC Lekgotla held on the 14th-16th February 2014 in Hammanskraal, City of Tshwane The SACP Gauteng held a PEC Lekgotla from 14th-16th February 2014 in Hammanskraal, north of the City of Tshwane. The PEC Lekgotla adopted a declaration with full details of its key outcomes and decisions. The declaration will be issued to the press tomorrow. International situation The PEC Lekgotla analysed the international situation and reaffirmed the view that the economic crisis of Imperialism, the highest and last stage of capitalism remains the profound defining factor of the world class balance of forces. The Lekgotla further analysed the current strategic and tactical posture of imperialism in several parts of the world and in our country. It was resolved that whilst Imperialism may not at this stage seek to stage a classical, NATO type military regime change in our country, such an option should not be ruled out in future. It was resolved that currently; the strategy of Imperialism is to wage a "low intensity" counter-revolution. The objective of such a strategy is to weaken the popular power and ruling capacity of the African National Congress and its Alliance partners. The template for this "low intensity'' counter-revolutionary strategy can be clearly seen from the experiences of Venezuela in the 2002 attempted but failed coup against former President Hugo Chavez, and currently against President Maduro. At the heart of this strategy, is the mobilisation of certain sections of the commercial mass media, working with a coalition of opposition parties, self-anointed "intellectuals", commentators and with highly USA funded right-wing NGO's. In our country, the features of the "low intensity" counter-revolution takes the form of severe and consistent use of lies and false-hoods to wage attacks and slander against the leadership of the ANC and its Alliance partners, and in particular, President Jacob Zuma. Such attacks also use the neo-fascist and right-wing ideological expression of crude subjectivism and the tendency to seek easy answers to complex problems facing our country, its people and the democratic government. In this regard, the PEC Lekgotla identified the following areas as avenues and outlets to wage the "low intensity'" counter-revolution that uses crude subjectivism, political manipulation of finding easy solutions to complex questions. Nkandla housing security upgrades The PEC Lekgotla reaffirmed the resolutions of the 2013 December Augmented Central Committee on Nkandla. It resolved that at the centre of the crisis relating to the Nkandla security upgrades is the historic question of the transformation of the state with respect to the relationship of government officials, the bureaucrats with monopoly capital through tenders, price manipulation and the corrupt morality of the Apartheid capitalist ruling classes. The PEC noted that as part of national reconciliation and peaceful transition to democracy, many of the corrupt forces of the Apartheid ruling classes, including those from the Bantustan were integrated within the state. And furthermore, examples of these practices are many in our country, for example, the price manipulation and corrupt practices during the construction of 2010 Soccer world cup stadiums. To blame President Zuma, and completely ignore contradictions of the state transformation as an objective factor constitute crude subjectivism. The PEC Lekgotla awaits with keen interest the report of the Public Protector. We are to hear the language, style, poetry and costume of the report from this office that more often, and in this particular case, allegedly leaked crucial and sensitive information. We are yet to hear a report on the leakages from this office. Gauteng E-Tolls The Lekgotla received an input from PRASA CEO comrade Lucky Montana on Integrated Public Transport. It was also agreed that this is one key outlet and area used through a hype activity, to weaken and liquidate the revolutionary movement of Nelson Mandela, by the forces of "low intensity" counter-revolution. The Lekgotla appreciated and acknowledged decisions of the Central Committee, and struggles waged by all Alliance partners including Cosatu, our historic class ally. The PEC Lekgotla deeply appreciated the unity of the entire Alliance on the demand for Integrated Public Transport and that attempts by right-wing forces and commercial mass media aligned to the DA and Imperialism to manipulate the struggles waged by Cosatu fully supported by the Alliance, have completely and dismally failed. The PEC Lekgotla noted the fact that the majority of Africans in particular and Black people in general, the organised workers, the working class and the poor still use extremely out-dated, dangerous, unreliable and unsafe Metro rail trains, the Putco buses and Taxis. It further noted that in our province and country, we do not have public transport but commuter transport system designed to serve the interests of the Apartheid ruling classes. The Lekgotla denounced and rejected with contempt the convenient narrow focus on E-tolls, and complete silence on popular working class demands for better transport system. This include demands such as better trains, buses, taxis, alternative road networks, integrated and affordable ticketing system and better working conditions. This tendency to focus on the easy solution, completely disregarding popular demands of the people, proof beyond doubt that the Imperialist DA aligned forces of low "intensity" counter-revolution has nothing to do with working class interests. It is but a cheap and reactionary ploy to weaken the ANC and manipulate the popular forces, that is, the Africans in particular and Black people in general. The desperate attempt to co-opt Africans in particular and Black people in general by presenting a narrow focus on E-Tolls as the basis of common interests of the equal "Black middle class" and the white middle class is a falsehood that should be denounced and rejected with the contempt it deserves. The DA and imperialist aligned commercial mass media have even coined a slogan that elections in Gauteng based on E-Tolls will be decided by the "white and black" middle class as equals. Whilst the post-1994 democratic landscape has created a layer of a middle strata within Africans and Black people, such a layer remains a small fraction, and is highly indebted and financially dependent on loans and advances by commercial banks. The PEC Lekgotla resolved to appeal to the revolutionary overwhelming majority of Africans and Black people against the dangers of co-option by the ''Middle class" linked and directly aligned to the Apartheid ruling classes. Community struggles The PEC Lekgotla noted the use of an abstract concept of "service delivery protests" to refer to legitimate, historic and revolutionary expressions of the people, in order to attack the ANC government. The use of this concept by the forces of "low intensity" counter-revolution seeks to create an impression that the historically oppressed masses, Africans in particular and black people in general have turned against their movement and that they blame the revolutionary movement for problems of the legacy of colonialism and Colonialism of a Special Type dating back to more than 350 years. The PEC Lekgotla supported the view expressed by President Jacob Zuma that our country has delivered services very well and has achieved what none of the countries facing similar challenges has achieved. In many instances, problems relating to protests are more often triggered by factors not related to lack of service delivery. The Lekgotla resolved that the ANC led Alliance and movement should embrace these community struggles as part of the historic anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist community struggles. This approach is critical to isolate anarchists, thugs, criminals and corrupt elements that use the issues of colonialism and Apartheid legacy to manipulate the working class and poor. The PEC Lekgotla also reaffirmed its call that government and state organs must at all times swiftly and speedily move in to hear the people and provide strategic leadership. This is the best and most revolutionary way to isolate the forces that uses violence, looting and criminality, masqueraded and masked as anger of the people against their revolutionary movement. Election victory for the ANC on 7th May 2014 Elections The PEC Lekgotla analysed the situation in the province and concluded that organised workers, the working class and the poor, Africans in particular and Blacks in general constitute the most decisive motive force to deliver an overwhelming election victory for the ANC. The Lekgotla noted developments and challenges in COSATU, especially the call to alienate workers from the ANC as the revolutionary movement of their blood, sweat, suffering and pain. The Lekgotla denounced and rejected this tendency that encourages workers to build our country in the image of the divisive bourgeoisie, their historic and class enemy. The Lekgotla called on workers to build their country in the image of their own revolutionary morality, uniting them with the rest of the oppressed masses by voting for the ANC in these elections. The PEC Lekgotla resolved to launch Qina Msebenzi or Tia Mosomi Election Campaign. The purpose of the campaign is to strengthen the unity of workers with the historically oppressed people of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, Joe Slovo and Chris Hani. The Campaign will be focussed on the industrial proletariat and workers on the factory floor. It will be launched next week in our District of Oupa Phasha (Ekurhuleni). Issued on behalf of the SACP Gauteng Province Contact: Mamabolo Jacob: Provincial Secretary: 082 884 1868 Lucian Segami: Provincial Spokesperson: 079 522 0098 -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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