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*SACP* *South African Communist Party* *Brian Bunting District * *Thursday, 05 June 2014* *BRIAN BUNTING DISTRICT COUNCIL MEDIA STATEMENT-FOR AN IMMIDIATE RELEASE* On the 31st of May 2014, the South African Communist Party in the Brian Bunting (Cape Metro) Held its District Council in Town two, Khayelitsha. The District Council was attended by delegates from all our branches across the District. As it was the first Council after the general elections one of its objectives was to assess the work of the SACP Red Brigades during the elections campaign and ANC led performance during the 5th General Elections. Further than that the council was to assess the impact of the elections in the growth of the SACP membership. The Council convened under the programmatic theme, *"Marching towards our 4th District Congress and building on the elections momentum and moving towards the rebuilding of a Quantitative and Qualitative Party and the united Alliance".* *Membership and Branches* In the build-up to the general elections, the Party identified two interrelated objectives namely; the ANC's overwhelming majority and to increase the SAC P membership and building of our branches. Today, we can proudly say those two objectives have been achieved because the ANC got a landslide victory and we are have membership and building SACP branches in areas where we never existed before. However in as much as the membership of the SACP is rapidly growing in the black working class areas on the coloured working class areas there is a slow growth. Thus the District council resolve that we should direct our energies to the coloured working class areas and also the rolling-out of political schools for the next three months and beyond. *SACP Brian Bunting Red Brigades* The launch of Chris Hani Red Brigades in February this year, gave the Party an army of committed volunteers who were able to campaign in the areas which were also seen as hostile to the ANC. Thus the council resolve that the work of red brigades not to be demobilise but continue post elections in a form Know Your Neighbourhood Campaign (KYNC) and also return back to areas we visited during the elections. Our Red Brigades uncovered many wrong tendencies and including the wrong behaviour of some ANC public representatives and the main content of our Red Brigade report shall be submitted to the ANC leadership with our recommendations. *Rebuild our youth-wing, the YCLSA* The council emphasised the need to have a strong and campaigning YCLSA in the District the Party in the District shall take full responsibility of assisting young communist in the District to re-establish our YCL as per the resolutions of our 2002 National Congress. This task is urgent because we have observed that many struggles waged in the recent past whether it's the workers or community struggles, there is dominance of young people. It was therefore the strong belief of the District Council that the presence of YCL will help to capture young people so that they can't be captured by anarchists and demagogues who are bent on exploiting the conditions that they are finding themselves in. Hence the emergence of the lumpen youth in our communities and work places can be easily attributed to the collapse of principled and progressive youth formations. *The outcomes of the 2014 General Elections and the State of the Alliance and moving to 2016* This District Council interrogated the outcomes of the elections in the metro and the province. On the 7th May 2014, the ANC in the Metro could only attain 31.13 % against the DA 61.5 %. These results clearly exposes that Metro is underperforming and that has a huge effect on the provincial result. The results are indeed a through reflection that not much has been done in campaigning as the ANC in the region visited 8% percent of the target it sets. And thus we believe that the outcomes do not necessary present a growing support for the DA but that of our own organisational and political weaknesses as the ANC led alliance. And those weaknesses are as the results of the following challenges namely; · Factionalism; · The inability of the ANC to convene its constitutional meetings such as RGC/ PGC as platforms for both political and organizational reflection · Gate-keeping and · Rooi gevaar Therefore the council attributed the above, our performance in the region and province can also be to the fact that the ANC went to these elections with much fractured structures and fragmented alliance. By implication, a fractured and fragmented structure compromises capacity. For all these factors, we call for the ANC national leadership to intervene to both the region and the province. Clearly, the current leadership of the ANC in the region present a serious threat for our electoral victory in the upcoming local government in 2016. Based on the results of the provincial elections in particular as they relate to Cape Metro, there is clearly no time to demobilise but to ensure that structures of the ANC led alliance are built in order respond to the perpetuation of the neo-liberal policies of the Democratic alliance. Building credible ANC structures and uniting the alliance will the in the next Five Years and in the build-up to the forthcoming local government elections will help our campaigns to be based on mass work across the metro and driven by our branches. Such structure should agitate of our masses to be our tool to also build activist communities because we are not dealing with an enemy that is prepared to listen to our grievance but a very arrogant enemy, the DA and thus we shall lead the agitation of our masses. *Ses'khona* The council also further engage on the presence and relevance of Ses'khona people's movement. The council further resolve that there is no contradiction between activists of Ses'khona and members of the Party. It however concerning that some of our alliance structures through factional thinking is dangerously elevating the Civic movement to be political organisation. Hence as the SACP we view the existence of Ses'khona as necessary and important in advancing community struggle which no amount blackmailing it will ever resolve the challenges of sanitation the province. We urge our alliance partners ANC in particular to work closely with the masses of Ses'khona and can only be achieve if personality cult are pushed to the periphery in order to readdress the inhumane conditions our people are subjected to it. *Way forward * Having grasped the background above and with the working class in the metro still going to face the neo-liberal onslaught from the DA rule for the next Five Years, we therefore have the responsibility to re-assert our authority as the vanguard Party of the working class in the metro and the Province. For the next three months and beyond, we should pay attention to the following key fronts; - Rebuild the Organs of Peoples Power in our communities and led by principled cadreship - Build the Party both quantitatively and qualitatively - Rolling out of our Know Your Neighborhood Campaign - Lead the financial sector campaign - -- Benson Ngqentsu SACP Brian Bunting District Secretary Mobile:0827966400 Tel:021-948 6363 Fax:0866600992 'He who feeds you controls you' Thomas Sankara -- -- 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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