SACP Congress to Discuss and Adopt the SACP's Draft Political Programme

16 July 2002

The 11th Congress of the South African Communist Party (SACP), being held from 24 to 28 July, will adopt the Party's new political programme. The draft programme follows intensive and widespread internal discussion in all 337 branches, 40 districts and 9 provinces of the SACP and the SACP Central Committee over the last 6 months.

Through this programme the SACP seeks to deepen and consolidate transformation in our country and lay the basis for, build elements of, and momentum for socialism. The draft political programme is available on the SACP website  http://www.sacp.org.za/docs/#Congress  

Outlined below are the 6 chapters of the draft programme:

1. Chapter 1 - The Current Phase of the National Democratic Revolution

• Structural features of contemporary South Africa and the challenges going forward
• The restructuring of the working class

2. Chapter 2 - Towards a Progressive Growth and Development Strategy

• Industrial Policy
• Defending and Extending an Efficient Public Sector
• Transforming the Financial Sector
• Halting Capital Flight
• Our approach to Macro-Economic Policy
• Building a Co-operative Movement
• Our Approach to Black Economic Empowerment
• Towards a Comprehensive Social Security Programme
• Transforming the State
• Local Economic Development and Governance
• Social Dialogue

3. The South African Revolution in its International Context

• Globalisation and Imperialism
• Global Inequalities and Unevenness
• NEPAD

4. The SACP and the Ideological and Political Terrain in the National Liberation Movement

• Neoliberalism: the principal strategic opposition
• The neo-liberal project and the ANC
• Class and Ideological dynamism within the National Liberation Movement
• Strategic and Tactical Tasks facing the SACP

5. Taking Forward the Struggle for Socialism

• The relevance of the SACP's Strategic Slogan - Socialism is the Future, Build it Now
• Rolling back the Market
• Socialising the Ownership Function
• Moral Renewal
• Lessons from Socialist Consolidation in China and Cuba

CONTACT
Mazibuko K. Jara (surname Jara)
Department of Media, Information Publicity
South African Communist Party
COSATU House
No. 1 Leyds Street - 7th Floor Braamfontein 2001
Republic of South Africa
Tel: 27 11 339-3621/2
Fax: 27 11 339-4244
Cell: 083 651 0271
Email: mazibuko@sacp.org.za