To the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party
To Comrade Blade Nzimande, General Secretary
Dear Comrades,
On behalf of the National Council of the Workers` Party of Belgium we express our warmest fraternal greetings to all of you at the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the South African Communist Party.
We thank you very much for your invitation to attend the celebration of the founding of the CPSA on 30 July 1921. But we deeply regret to be unable to be with you .
During 90 years, the SACP has been the vanguard of the working class and the poor peasants in the struggle against colonialism and apartheid, in the strugggle for worker rights, job and salary, in the struggle to advance the National Democratic Revolutions.
Our two Parties consistently embraced Marxism-Leninism as the basis of their ideology.
As communist parties, we both face the challenges of the deepening crisis of the capitalist system itself. The workers are burdened with new measures of ever severer exploitation.
The world peace is more and more endangered by the imperialist policies of the USA, its NATO allies, European Union and Japan.
The coming years are not only a challenge, they are also an opportunity. Working people can understand better than ever since the Second World War that capitalism offers no future for them.
As we strengthen our parties, extend our militant mass work, improve our organisations, we can help the workers find the path towards liberation and socialism. That is our common alternative to this system of worsening conditions for the workers of our countries, for the peoples of this earth.
We are in full solidarity with your efforts to deeply change your country for the best of the working class and its allies
We wish you a very successful celebration of the 90th Anniversary and look forward to the continuing deepening of the friendship and fraternity between our two parties,
On behalf of the National Council of The WPB ( Workers`Party of Belgium),
Baudouin Deckers
Member of the National Bureau and
Head of the Department of International Relations