YCL+statement+on+Citizen+article+of+8+June+2006

YCL STATEMENT ON THE CITIZEN NEWSPAPER ARTICLE OF Thursday, June 08, 2006
=“YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE WANTS SACP TO BREAK AWAY” REFERS.=

The Young Communist League has noted with serious concern the contents of the article pertaining to the address by National Secretary of the Young Communist League, Cde Buti Manamela to the SACCAWU Shopsteward Council in Durban over the weekend.

The Young Communist League or its National Secretary has never called for a breakaway of the Alliance. As an organization we endorse and embrace the principled foundation of the Alliance as the only vehicle towards socio-economic transformation in the current phase of the National Democratic Revolution (NDR).

Although we believe that the SACP should strengthen its influence in the Alliance as it relates to issues of government, the nature and role of the state to issues of development. We see this as totally different from calling for the breaking of the Alliance. In essence the YCL is calling for the hegemony of the SACP in the alliance, society in general and strategic state institutions.


 * Issued by

Castro Ngobese

YCL Spokesperson

Cell: 082 678 2612

Tel: 011 339 3621

E-mail: castro@ycl.org.za**

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