SACPblackStar.jpg South African Communist Party, 2015 Year-End Statement, 27 December 2015 Advance the second, more radical phase of our democratic transition Close ranks against corrupt forces positioning themselves to loot public resources The South African Communist Party (SACP) wishes all progressive and peace-loving democratic South Africans a happy and prosperous new year, 2016. Year-end periods offer an opportunity to reflect back not only on the calendar year coming to an end but on where we come from as we prepare for the New Year and all the seasons that lie ahead. Since 1994 when we dislodged the apartheid regime South Africa has become a better place to live in. Millions have gained access to free housing delivery and massive electricity and water expansion. Access to education has been widened across all bands to levels never seen before. In addition many children in schools receive free meals so they do not learn on a hungry stomach. Healthcare provision has been expanded with new clinics built where there was none before. We must build on these and other social achievements of our democratic breakthrough as we continue to transform our country for the better. In particular we must place our programme of transformation on to a second, more radical phase of our democratic transition. We must up the stakes in this regard in tackling the problems of persisting inequality, unemployment and poverty. Strategic infrastructure programmes must continue. Most importantly and beyond infrastructure development we must develop productive capacity, expand, diversify and raise the levels of national production. This means that we must transform the colonial structure of our economy and its unsustainable reliance on the import of finished products and dependency on export of raw materials and primary goods. The ongoing international economic crisis has glaringly exposed the dangers of colonial and dependent economic organisation. We must vigorously pursue food processing and use our minerals to advance manufacturing activity. In the light of the dangers of the imperialist aggression that has been intensified not only in the economic but also political sphere, more emphasis must be placed on localising ownership and developing collective forms of ownership such as co-operatives, public ownership and democratic national control. We must close ranks against those who seek to loot the public sector for personal gain as an essential pillar in the struggle for a second, more radical phase of our democratic transition. Next year our country will be holding local government elections for the fifth consecutive time since our democratic breakthrough in 1994. The SACP is calling on all alliance partners and formations of our mass democratic movement to close ranks and unite behind the perspective of the second radical phase of our democratic transition. It is through unity that we dislodged the apartheid regime in 1994 after decades of our national liberation struggle and centuries of resistance against colonisation. There is no other road to victory - that is complete liberation and social emancipation! Issued by the SACP Contact: Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo, National Spokesperson, 082 920 0308 -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
