*YCLSA EASTERN CAPE 3rd PROVINCIAL COUNCIL DECLARATION * We, 216 delegates from branches and the Provincial Committee of the Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA), Eastern Cape Province, convened our 3rd Provincial Council from 18-19 January 2014 at University of Fort Hare, East London Campus.
Our Provincial Council was addressed by our National Deputy Secretary, Cde Alex Mashilo and we were graced by the presence of Cde Sello Maetso, Cde Mawethu Rune, Cde Jongumzi Cengani and Cde Malesela Maleka, who are our National Committee Members. Our Provincial Council was also addressed by the Deputy Chairperson of the South African Communist Party in our Province, Cde Noncedo September. We received messages of support from the Progressive Youth Alliance, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), South African Student Congress Organization (SASCO) and African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). We used the Provincial Council as a report back from the last National Committee Meeting, where we adopted a Young Communist league of South Africa Election Strategy and the Programme of Action for 2014. We convened at a time when imperialists are intensifying their struggle to re-colonize Africa. As the YCLSA we call for vigilance and strengthening of party to party relations in defence of the revolution We convened under the theme *“True to our history, Socialism in our lifetime*”. Our aim is to ensure that our members and young people all over the country understand the aims and objectives of the YCLSA. We owe it to the youth of this country to teach them about the history of the YCLSA since 1922. We want to produce all-round cadres that will understand and view both the YCLSA and the SACP as the only weapons to fight and struggle for socialism. We are encouraged by the words of the first National Secretary of the YCLSA, Cde Ruth First, when she said *“Each generation starts off not from the beginning of the struggle, but from the footholds built for it by others, and with the experience and the inspiration bequeathed to it by others who have gone before. Steadily and painfully, each generation fights its way upwards, higher than the last, nearer to the goal”. * Therefore, we have a huge responsibility, a responsibility that we carry as others who came before us laid the foundation. We agreed that to intensify our Operation Khula Campaign in order to grow the organisation both qualitatively and quantitatively. Our plan is to build vibrant branches that will ensure that our members are incapacitated with the Marxism-Leninism theory. In order to achieve we plan to do the following: · All members of the YCL should recruit comrades into the organization and ensure that the organization grows. · We need to, as the YCL, especially at branches, ensure that we are engaged into meaningful campaigns that addresses the needs and aspirations of young people. We should also, as the YCL, link our programmes to that of the SACP and ensure that young people understand and participate in the programme. · Our other major task is to build the SACP. We should ensure that all young people above 18 joins and participate as part of the vanguard of the working class. · Our targets are learners, students, young workers, rural and township youth and young women as a priority. We need to create an army of committed young communists within the working class and the poor to strengthen and build socialism NOW!! The Provincial Council the need to strengthen and intensify the implementation of our programmes and further resolved that in the immediate we must focus on the followings: · We must intensify the consolidation of youth vote for African National Congress in the forthcoming General National Elections, where all our membership will be the volunteers of the ANC. · We must embark on the Walter Sisulu University save campaign, where we call for the convening of the Education Summit to engage and chart a way-forward on the challenges facing the university. · We call for the monitoring of Scholar Transport and School Nutrition by affected departments and stakeholders respectively. · We call both Provincial Government and Municipalities to use the Provincial accommodation facilities for all the activities they are engaged on. · We call for the establishments of special courts for the death of initiates. We declare our Provincial Council which was characterized by robust debates, maximum discipline and unity as the core values of a revolutionary force that must be preserved. For more information and clarity please contact the Provincial Secretary of YCLSA at 078 642 9004 or email @[email protected] *Mluleki Dlelanga * *Provincial Secretary * *Young Communist League* *078 6429004* *Cde Thabang Maseko* *Provincial Spokesperson* *Young Communist League* *0837373180* -- -- 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. 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