South African Communist Party Eastern Cape, 31 January 2015 Press statement Special Provincial Executive Committee The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Eastern Cape convened its Special Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) meeting on the 30 January 2015 at King Williamstown. The meeting was convened for our party to deal with ideological, political and organisational work of the party in the province. The meeting was attended by the SACP Central Committee members, Cde Mandla Makupula and Cde Phumulo Masualle. The meeting considered and adopted the political overview and SACP Local Government Election Strategy positioning the party to contribute to ensure an overwhelming victory of the ANC. The meeting conveyed its message of solidarity to the Moses Mabhida Province of the SACP on a cowardice merciless armed attack that took the lives of people in the SACP meeting outside Durban. It is the responsibility of the law enforcement authorities to investigate this criminal act and reveal its instigators. We send our heartfelt condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones, and say to the SACP in Moses Mabhida do not despair remain focused and vigilant as the enemy among us is likely to be more vicious as class struggle get sharpened. On the closure of schools in Port Elizabeth: The meeting expressed its concerns on the closure of many schools in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth. We are of the view that no matter what the challenges may be, or how huge they may appear they should not mean that people must deny children their right to education. The right to access education is sacrosanct and cannot be compromised as this amount to aborting the future of the children as time lost will never be returned. We also call upon the people of those areas to ensure that all schools are opened and children are getting education. We have also noted that the DA racists have used the educational challenges in that area as the political football. It is in that context that we are calling upon the people of Port Elizabeth to reject the defenders of the white privileges, who close the working class schools whilst their own children are enjoying education of private schools. We also wish to call upon the department of education to accelerate the resolutions of the concerns including ensuring that teachers are appointed in all vacant funded posts and the lifting of moratorium on the appointment in non-teaching posts to remove administrative duties from educators. Alliance relations: The meeting received concerning reports in almost all our districts about the deteriorating alliance relations and non-functional election processes. There seems to be the new anchor in the alliance that seeks to replace that of the working class by the comprador bourgeoisie. There has been a consistent systemic side-lining and exclusion of the SACP activists in many of the regions in the province, both in the administration and political space. The collapse of alliance relations in many parts of the province does no good in pursuing the National Democratic Revolution (NDR). It can only serve to defeat our noble agenda of the congress movement. It is in most cases engineered by corrupt people who want to use the movement for their selfish accumulation, for they see both the COSATU and the SACP as the threat in their greedy path. It is our commitment to defeat the new emerging alliance in the movement; we shall never surrender our movement to the greedy people, as that will be the defeat of our hard won gains. We will go to the coming provincial alliance summit to raise these issues and seek sustainable solutions, as we firmly believe that none of us in the alliance should behave as a bigger brother or an irritating dictatorial uncle. The unfolding events here in front of our eyes combined with the challenges of poverty, inequality, poverty, imposition of tax law bill on the workers and the crisis of corruption and factionalism engulfing the broad movement represent a threat to our continued hold to political power as forces under the leadership of the ANC. Local government elections: The meeting re-affirmed our support to our long standing ally, the African National Congress (ANC) in the forthcoming local government elections. We have adopted the election strategy for the forthcoming local government elections. However, we want to put it on record that our deep commitment to the movement must not make people to take us for granted, or think they can walk all over us. The meeting received reports of consistent purging of the SACP in the processes. The candidate nomination processes are not alliance inclusive. It is in this context that as the SACP, we want to put it on record as a matter of principle that as we campaign for the ANC, we are not going to campaign for thieves and imposed candidates. We commit in working with the ANC in ensuring that, these elections processes and outcomes affirms people's power as contained in the 2016 January 8th Statement of the ANC NEC. "Our call is for the year 2016 to be the year of mobilizing all of society behind the ANC's programmes and campaigns, in this year of advancing the people's power" - ANC NEC January 8th Statement. Non-payment of workers in Ikhwezi Municipality. The SACP condemns the non-payment of workers in Ikhwezi Municipality; non-payment of workers is no different to slavery. If and when works are not paid, particularly in the month of January month is locking them in a vicious circle of debts and no reason can justify such an injustice. The SACP will be meeting with the leadership of SAMWU to work with the workers in finding solution to the crisis. On tax administration laws recently signed The PEC expressed its support for COSATU for the more consultation before any law can implemented and that these cannot be done outside a comprehensive social security system. The meeting also decided that as the SACP in the province we will be organising a march calling for a comprehensive social security, a meaningful consultation process and part of intensifying our campaign for the transformation and diversification of the financial sector. This is one of the reasons we agree with COSATU that it is wrong to hand over monies of workers to fund managers who will decide without involving the workers where their monies will be invested. Any preservation policy should indeed be about the workers not principally serve to cushion capital under these difficult economic conditions. On calls for the removal of the MEC of Education: We reiterate our earlier assertion that the calls for the removal of the MEC of Education, Cde Mandla Makupula has nothing to do with education, but all to do with factional and business interests engulfing the movement. All of us in the province including those who are making these factional calls have witnessed the improvement in the department under the leadership of Cde Makupula and change is required in the entire basic and higher education as a system. This will help to build a solid foundation in the foundation phase and go away from a focus in grade 12. We are well aware as we have said before that at the core of these calls is the idea to loot state resources through scholar nutrition programme. The calls are aimed at the total capturing of the department for looting by greedy and corrupt people within and outside the movement. Had all these calls been genuine they would have been calling for the comprehensive assessment of all portfolios in the province, and many MECs would have been long recalled. Issued by the SACP Eastern Cape Contact: Siyabonga Mdodi SACP Provincial Spokesperson Mobile: +2783 358 8070 Office: +2740 635 1042/46 Fax: +2786 268 1281 Website: <http://www.sacp.org.za> www.sacp.org.za Facebook: SACP Eastern Cape -- -- 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. 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