SACP+supports+COSATU+action+on+Monday+27+June+2005

Thursday, 23 June 2005
=SACP Statement in support of COSATU action on Monday 27 June 2005=

The South African Communist Party (SACP) fully supports the 27 June 2005 national stayaway and marches called for by COSATU as part of its campaign on jobs and poverty. The SACP therefore calls upon all the workers and generally the people of our country to come out in their numbers to join this action. We further call upon all our members and structures to mobilize for, and join this action, including the mobilization of allied mass formations.

The capitalist class has generally benefited handsomely from our democracy, but has failed to use this to contribute towards meaningful growth and development in our country. Instead it has responded by retrenching, casualising and outsourcing workers. It is clear that the capitalist class is incapable of leading any sustained effort towards growth and development. It is therefore essential for the working class to build its power and seek to lead a process of growth and development for the benefit of the workers and the poor.

The SACP is convinced that intensified worker action is a signal that our second decade of freedom will see escalating class struggles around the trajectory of our national democratic revolution. Whilst there are many struggles being fought at various levels, including ideological battles, about the direction of our society, the principal terrain around which these struggles will congeal will be the class terrain.

The truth of the matter is that the trajectory of the national democratic revolution in our country over the second decade of freedom will principally be decided on the terrain of class struggle. That is why it is of utmost importance to escalate working class mobilisation against the capitalist class right at the beginning of the second decade of our freedom, in order to ensure that this becomes the decade of workers and the poor.

It is for the above reasons that the SACP will also use this action as a key platform to take forward its own campaigns which are integrally linked to the COSATU demands, under the banner of the following


 * FOUR IMMEDIATE WORKING CLASS DEMANDS:**


 * JOBS


 * BASIC SERVICES FOR ALL


 * LAND FOR THE LANDLESS


 * ACCESS TO FINANCE

Kaizer Mohau Media Liaison Officer South African Communist Party (SACP) Tel: 011 339 3621/2 - Fax: 011 339 4244/6880 Cell: 082 805 1085 Email: Kaizer@sacp.org.za Website: www.sacp.org.za**
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