Declaration of the 13th National Congress of the SACP
We, 2000 Communist militants, have met over the past four day , 12th July to 15th July, as delegates to the SACP`s 13th National Congress in Ongoye, KwaZulu-Natal. We are drawn from 3,298 SACP branches across the length and breadth of our country and from the ranks of the Young Communist League of South Africa. As delegates, we represent more than 150,000 SACP members – marking an unprecedented three-fold increase in the Party`s membership since our 12th Congress just five years ago.
Our Congress occurs in the midst of an ongoing and deepening global
capitalist crisis that is inflicting ever greater misery on the majority
of the world`s population and ever greater destruction of the natural
world on which human civilization depends. It is a crisis that
underlines the imperative of abolishing capitalism and replacing it with
socialism, a system based on meeting social needs and on a sustainable
relationship with nature.
Here in South Africa, notwithstanding 18 years of major progressive
changes towards consolidating our national democratic revolution, the
untransformed legacy of colonialism of a special type continues to
reproduce the triple crises of racialised and gendered inequality,
poverty and unemployment. If the gains of our democracy are not to be
overwhelmed, then it is critical that, together with our Alliance
partners, we embark on a radical shift in the National Democratic
Revolution, led by the working class.
It is in this context that the 13th Congress reviewed progress made
by the SACP over the past five years in advancing our Medium Term Vision
to build working class hegemony in all key sites of power. The
consolidation and acceleration of this strategic agenda remains a key
imperative over the coming five years. At this 13th Congress we have
adopted important policy and organisational resolutions to guide
revolutionary action and to deepen and take forward our programme, "The
South African Road to Socialism."
Our 13th Congress was marked by both vibrant policy debate and unity –
the product of 91 years of unbroken struggle, and of growing confidence
based on our important achievements over the past 5 years. A common
thread throughout the duration of our Congress was the need for
Communists to take active responsibility for our unfolding revolution.
We are not, and we shall not be armchair critics observing the struggle
from a comfortable distance. We shall wage the class struggle wherever
the class struggle is to be waged for democracy and against exploitation
and all forms of oppression.
Our disciplined unity in the midst of an Alliance facing many
challenges; our Marxism-Leninism; our principled commitment to Communist
values of solidarity and to fighting all negative tendencies –
including individualism, self-enrichment, and corruption – all these
attributes of the SACP and its cadres place an enormous vanguard
responsibility upon us, now more than ever.
This was a view that was also underlined in addresses to our Congress
by the leaders of our Alliance partners, and particularly by the
message of support delivered in person to our Congress by ANC President,
cde Jacob Zuma. The work of our 13th Congress has sharpened our
collective analysis of our current situation, and deepened our resolve
to intensify the national democratic revolution as the most direct route
to socialism in the South African context.
As delegates to this 13th National Congress we pledge to rise to
these challenges, inspired by the many generations of SACP heroes, the
sung and the unsung, who have kept the red flag flying for over nine
unbroken decades in this southern tip of the African continent. We
pledge to carry forward our vanguard role in our communities, in our
places of work and learning, in the formations of our allied and other
progress organisations, in the public sector and the state, on the
terrain of the battle of ideas, and in our internationalist work. We
pledge to work with a sense of confidence but also humility in the
service of the working class and poor.
As we rise, today, at the conclusion of the largest ever, and one of
the most united congresses of the Communist Party in South Africa, we
declare once more that
SOCIALISM IS THE FUTURE!
WE ARE NOT WAITING FOR THAT FUTURE – WE ARE ACTIVELY BUILDING THAT FUTURE, HERE AND NOW!!
SACP General Secretary, Blade Nzimande |
SACP 13th National Congress Central Committee
- General Secretary, Blade Nzimande
- National Chairperson, Senzeni Zokwana
- National Treasurer, Joyce Moloi-Moropa
- First Deputy General Secretary, Jeremy Cronin
- Second Deputy General Secretary, Solly Afrika Mapaila
- Deputy National Chairperson, Thulasi Nxesi
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