Salute Comrades, I know there are many issues of interest to cadres at the moment, some of those is the ongoing 10th Congress of Cosatu, SACP's discussion documents, and so forth. But I had faced a challenge while I was addressing in one of the forums. After we shared political discussion, one cadre asked a question to me. He said why the SACP as an independent political party does not have a Women's League. This question emanated when we had explained structures of the ANC and emphasis of the primary objectives of the National Democratic Revolution which are to construct a united society which is non racial, non sexist, democratic and prosperious. The understanding is that the ANCYL & WL were formed in order to allow full attention to the critical challenges facing women and youth. At the same time the SACP as a venguard of the working class and the poor does have a YCL representing the youth who are communists in terms of ideology but it doesn't have a women's structure.
I said to comrades, the SACP is not a broad church like the ANC hence its focus is to build a socialist state enroute Communism. By so doing the SACP build a revolutionary intelligentsia who is schooled the teachings of socialism and communism, yet advocating for the victory of the NDR. In pursuit of its objective, the SACP doesn't necessarily need to establish a separate gender forums however believes that women had faced multiple challenges and indeed suffered discrimination of both class and gender. In pursuit of class struggle, the SACP would have addressed all challenges facing the women. The formation of YCL is to sure case that communism is a future and by teaching the youth, you save the nation. The clarity I actually need from fellow cadres in this forum is really to find out the political reason for the Party not to have in its structures a Women's forum. And to check if the explanation I gave to my comrades was informed or a true response of that question. ------------------------------------------- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------ For super low premiums, click here http://home.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
