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For the SACP to make significant headway with its go-it-alone resolution, it will need to clarify its relationship with the bourgeois-oriented movement, the ANC, and break loose from its Alliance with it.
The SACP’s current trajectory serves the interests of the bourgeois nationalist elite and perpetuates the suffering of the working class.
Organisations have to understand that leadership is earned by advocating for people’s needs. History can also help us to appreciate that leadership is not endowed.
The SACP’s steadfastness to implement the organisation’s decision to independently contest the coming local government election is proving to be a source of consternation within the party and among its partners, the ANC and trade union federation Cosatu.
The SACP’s independent electoral turn could be the spark for a new chapter. But it will only succeed if it is part of a broader renewal of socialist politics, rooted in democracy, mass self-organisation, and unity in struggle.
Retired trade unionist Dinga Sikwebu’s characterisation of the current political situation as a stalemate — and therefore a basis for the much-vaunted national dialogue and social compact — fatally assumes that we have a political elite and business class with...
In his examination of why despite their meagre results at the polls, nine non-ruling communist parties in Europe continue to have sporadic participation in multi-party coalitions in government, Sidney Tarrow indicates that communist parties enter governments during...