Issue 16, Vol 11: 23 October 2014
In this issue:
Claim over SACP absurd
Claim over SACP absurd
By Khaya Xaba
On 13 October Sowetan published an opinion piece by Vusumuzi Tyhalwa, a NUMSA
Youth Forum leader who deceptively alleged that SACP's criticisms are a cover
to protect privilege and the ANC. This article is only one in a series, and not
the first to be published by Sowetan, written in the name of NUMSA and
attacking our Alliance partners the SACP and ANC. This is interesting, since we
see no articles from such individuals criticising the exploiters who pay
workers peanuts at garages, in car maintenance, repair shops, motor and
engineering factories, and by the way who still employ labour brokers. The
state of transformation in these sectors is appalling.
The workplace is still a black-bottom and white-top pyramid 20 years into our
democracy as if there's no union. How could this not continue, when “union
leaders” like Tyhalwa are dedicated at fighting against a working class Party
and other working class organisations which they write negatively about, i.e.
if such stereotyped pieces are not written in their names? Tyhalwa and his
likes should instead focus on uniting the working class movement, fighting
against, and writing more about the capitalist exploiters who oppress workers
racially, discriminate them on the basis of gender and even exploit them
sexually based on unequal power relations?
It's absurd to claim that SACP members are elected in ANC's lists of public
representatives and consequently deployed because of their loyalty to President
Jacob Zuma. This claim insinuates that SACP members are not compatible or do
not have any competence for the deployment, and that it's first time, since our
democracy, that they, including NUMSA members and leaders by the way, were
deployed in state legislative and oversight organs and executives at the three
spheres of government.
What's also very interesting is that the likes of Tyhalwa haven't produced any
critique of the right-wing parties that contest power to capture the same
bodies and what will happen if the left abstained. They simplistically
degenerated into anti-Communists, and seek to alter the focus of class struggle
away from the enemy against the forces of revolutionary change.
The likes of Tyhalwa must recognise that the SACP is not an opposition against
the ANC but its ally. We'll continue to contest power based on the alliance,
sensitive that division, disunity and fragmentation among our people are a
recipe for a counter-revolution and a preoccupation for
counter-revolutionaries.
Khaya Xaba is Young Communist League of SA National Spokesperson
This article also appeared on the Sowetan [Thursday October 23, 2014]
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