With its upcoming Conference of the Left, the South African Communist Party must confront its history and embrace a more radical, anti-capitalist stance to effectively challenge the status quo.
Freedom Charter
SACP’s decision to contest elections historically correct, however, it still faces some hurdles
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.
Remembering Theresa Solomon 1945 – 2025
Struggle for Theresa Solomon was about creating a better quality of life in the communities—peaceful, stable, full of love and material wellbeing, where people could live in harmony with each other.
Struggle for the Freedom Charter goes on
The Freedom Charter envisioned a South Africa without racism or sexism, where all would be “equal before the law”, with “peace and friendship” pursued abroad.
Nod to Nationalisation a Hollow Victory
By Natasha Marrian8 September 2010ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on Tuesday attacked ANC leaders who denied that nationalisation was party policy, saying they were "denouncing" the Freedom Charter. "We have been listening to leaders of the ANC who understand...
Nationalisation and the Freedom Charter
By Martin Legassick Ben Turok (‘Calm down. The ANC is not about to seize mines’, The Times, 19/7/2009) may not support nationalisation of the mines in the present, but as one of the authors of the 1955 economic clauses in the Freedom Charter, the honourable Turok...




