[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: SolidNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 5:11 PM Subject: South African CP, Central Committee Statement http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . ===================================================================== South African CP, Central Committee Statement --------------------------------------------------- From: South African Communist Party, Sun, 13 May 2001 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.sacp.org.za ==================================================================== 12 May 2001 STATEMENT OF THE SACP CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING The Central Committee (CC) of the South African Communist Party (SACP) met over two days (11 and 12 May 2001) in Johannesburg. The meeting received and discussed organisational reports from our provinces. An encouraging feature from these reports is that fact that Party structures throughout South Africa are taking up the co-operative movement campaign. The SACP has invited trade unions, religious formations, NGOs, co-operatives and community organisations to a meeting on 16 May to take forward the campaign for the transformation of the financial sector institutions. 55 different formations have already responded positively to the invitation and will be sending delegations. The CC discussed a number of policy issues, particularly the ongoing restructuring of state assets. The CC reaffirmed the SACP position that strong, publicly-owned parastatals are essential to spear-head government's infrastructural investment programme and its related integrated rural development and urban renewal plans. The CC affirmed that ongoing government/union bilaterals, in terms of the National Framework Agreement need to be supplemented by genuine engagements at the more detailed levels of transformation. The CC warned against hasty restructuring, and the temptation to bypass negotiation. Partly in the light of recent developments in Telkom and in the Post Office, the CC also called for a comprehensive review of the achievements, shortcomings, and lessons to be learnt from the restructuring that has taken place so far. The meeting devoted considerable time to a political report from the secretariat on the topic of +IBw-Deepening and safeguarding the unity of the movement. The report reflected on recent developments in our country, and also built on concerns about negative tendencies within our movement, tabled by President Mbeki at the ANC+IBk-s NGC in July last year. The SACP has already publicly expressed its views regarding the alleged against the president. The CC, accordingly, did not discuss this particular episode further, but it endorsed the Party leadership's stand on the question. However, the episode is seen by the CC as a symptom of a wider tendency for our movement to be overly pre-occupied with leadership contests, suspicion and the circulation of rumours. These tendencies can detract from the enormous achievements already chalked up by our national liberation movement since 1994, and they can demobilise us in the face of the tremendous challenges facing the ongoing transformation process. The SACP commits itself to the strengthening of the alliance and to working to foster a united and collective leadership. We call on all of our cadres not to follow rumours, but to deal vigilantly with rumour-mongers. The SACP believes that millions of South Africans expect nothing less of us. The SACP will be meeting bilaterally with the ANC leadership, and the CC has also resolved on the convening of a bilateral with COSATU in the coming weeks to discuss these concerns. Over the next two and a half months our organisation will be gearing up for the 80th anniversary celebration of the communist party in South Africa. The celebrations will include a public evaluation of the SACP through Workers and Peoples Assemblies to be held in work-places and communities across the country. CONTACT Mazibuko K. Jara (surname Jara) Department of Media, Information and Publicity South African Communist Party Tel +IBM- 011 339 3621+ADs- Fax +IBM- 011 339 4244 Cell +IBM- 083 651 0271+ADs- Email +IBM- sacp1+AEA-wn.apc.org Website +IBM- www.sacp.org.za *End*
