1 August 2008
The 29th to 31st July marks the 87th Anniversary of the formation of the Communist Party of South Africa, which was relaunched as the South African Communist Party after the CPSA was banned by the apartheid regime under the draconian laws.
We are the oldest communist party in Africa. We are the bearers of a proud tradition. It was communists who pioneered progressive trade unionism, non-racialism, radical journalism, the cooperative movement, and working class internationalism in South Africa. It was communists who, in the late 1920s, identified the still embryonic ANC as a formation to be forged into a mighty, mass-based national liberation movement capable of leading our people to liberation. Through the struggles of our people - the defiance campaigns, peasant revolts, the armed struggle, underground work, the building of organs of popular power - Communists have provided both leadership and ordinary rank-and-file activism. From Johannes Nkosi to Chris Hani many of the great martyrs of our struggle have been communists. We are a Party of activism.
We are also a Party of revolutionary theory. We are committed to providing a programmatic, strategic vision of the challenges confronting our struggle at any given moment. We are Party steeled in the ups and downs of revolutionary struggle. Through the 1990s and into the new century, when capitalism appeared to be all conquering, when many lost heart and abandoned the struggle against a system based on profits for the few, we kept the red flag flying.
To mark this proud history, the SACP will hold a commemorative rally as follows:
Date : 03 August 2008.
Time : 10H00
Venue : Open Air Arena, Galeshewe Township Kimberly, Northern Cape Province.
The main speaker at the rally will be Comrade Blade Nzimande, the General Secretary of the SACP. The leadership of the ANC, the General Secretary of COSATU, the National Secretary of the YCL., the ANC YL and the ANC WL will also address the rally.
Members of the press are hereby invited to attend.
Issued by the SACP.
Contact:
Malesela Maleka
SACP Spokesperson – 082 226 1802