South African Communist Party O.R. Tambo District, Eastern Cape, 17 August 2015 6th District Congress Declaration: "Building working class hegemony for socio-economic emancipation" We, communists gathered, in the South African Communist Party (SACP), O.R Tambo District Congress at Bulolo, Port St Johns from the 15 - 16 August 2015 under the theme "Building working class hegemony for socio-economic emancipation". We are firm in our resolve and through this declaration, we collectively commit ourselves to increasing the tempo of the struggle, fighting capitalism on all fronts through knitting the various working class struggles ensuring that wave after wave of struggle delivers decisive blows on the capitalist class and its capitalist state machinery, utilizing the various strategies and tactics. We note that in the past few years, the working class has been on the receiving end of heavy blows by capitalism. Work has been restructured and the working class has been fast moving from exploitation to exclusion, hundreds of thousands of learners do not find access to institutions of higher learning nor jobs after writing their matric, unions have been disintegrating (rival unions are sprouting in every corner), the unemployed are hanging by a thread, with some only kept afloat by social grants, while the rest wallow in misery. Recognizing that the levels of suffering by the working class is beginning to result in the working class turning its assegais against one another in bloody wars that leave scars on our class brothers in a manner that could make the unity that is so needed to advance the struggle for socialism difficult and almost impossible. We saw this during what were termed xenophobic attacks when the poor turned on one another. We have in the past few years witnessed workers engaged in a bloody war against one another in the mining industry given what where workers were mowed down and workers bled from every pore, while not a single capitalist lost a family member. We will engage internally with other Party structures about what we view as incorrect characterization of what took place in Marikana. In the face of this we declare that: 1. We will roll back the financial sector through engaging in collective struggles by pressuring the Financial Sector to reform its exploitative and insatiable thirst for profit which has destroyed not only the lives of workers but their families and social relationships too. We will do this by launching the FSCC in all Sub-Districts. We also commit ourselves to fighting mining capital which is seeking on retrenching many mineworkers who originate from this District. 2. We will fight to regain control of the economy through building the cooperative sector, open up markets for agricultural production, ensure agro-processing and the building of new markets. We will do this by ensuring that we capacitate cooperatives and ensure that we hegemonize cooperative culture and rebuild the Dora Tamana Institute. We will also fight hard to develop the Marine economy that has so much potential in our localities. 3. We will fight to ensure that there is universal access to higher education so that we can stop the fact that every year hundreds of thousands of working class students have no access to institutions of higher learning nor do they find jobs. We will do this by ensuring that we assist the progressive student movement in fighting fee increases and we assist in ensuring that these institutions serve communities. We will also fight for free education and mobilize communities to resist fee increments. We will also intervene on the question of Scholar Transport through mass mobilization and engagement. 4. We notice that the working class is decimated on a daily basis by harrowing diseases that have as a result of the levels of poverty had the highest levels of potency amongst the working class and poor. We will have to do everything in our power to ensure that we work on the implementation of the NHI. We will hold an urgent bilateral with those in the health sector to make decisive interventions on all these sites of power. 5. We realize that gender struggles continue to permeate not only in society but also find expression in our organisations where the culture of patriarchal arrogance and subjugation has found its way into every pore of our organizations such that females continue to be relegated to menial tasks and are forced to play secondary roles to males in the organization and have an urgent responsibility to hegemonize struggles against patriarchy, not only in society but in the Party as an organ. 6. We will work tirelessly to unite the various strata of the working class that are daily divided by capitalism on their basis of their position under capitalism. In that breadth we will work tirelessly to unite and develop all working class mass organs such as COSATU and the ANC. We will therefore work for a decisive ANC victory in the upcoming Local Government Elections, seeking to reduce or annihilate access for reactionary forces in our Municipal Councils. We will leave no stone unturned in radicalizing and developing radical and progressive ideas amongst organized workers. 7. Commit ourselves to building an active, strong, united and dynamic Communist Party that is to be found in all facets of the community with capacity to reach every pore of the District and rouse the working class to collective action. This will only take place through the Party resolving all its organizational and political challenges in a manner that does not seek self-glorification but painstakingly seeks to develop collective working class action. The District Congress has taken decision to afford Cde Robert Nogumla, the Veteran of the Party a status of serving in all Party Structures in the District, including the DEC and DWC. We will achieve these aims, united in our diversity, committed in our resolve, consistent in our principles, until we achieve socialism. The 6th District Congress elected the following comrades: District Secretary: Simthembile Mvunelo District Chairperson: Sibongile Sotshongaye District Treasure: Nomamfengu Siyo-Sokutu Deputy District Secretary: Lazola Ndamase Deputy District Chairperson: Mnoneleli Mdakane Ordinary members: Mluleki Fihlani, Mandisa Giyose, Joy Klaas, Songezo Madyibhi, Malibongwe Mafanya, Ntombekhaya Galo, Zola Mevana, Mkhuseli Fono, Zolile Kolweni, Mabhiza Mfamela, Lulama Mfunzi, Nocwaka Ntshoyi, Nomonde Sitha, Solly Nduku, Xolilizwe Mnguni Issued by the SACP, O.R Tambo District. Contact: Simthembile Mvunelo SACP District Secretary Mobile: +2773 553 6906 Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Website: <http://www.sacp.org.za> www.sacp.org.za Facebook: SACP Eastern Cape -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. 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