SACP Gauteng dismisses the venomous attacks by Mr Irvin Jim as mere parting-shots of an exhausted demagogue on exit
Johannesburg - 23 October 2013
The South African Communist Party (SACP) in Gauteng Province dismisses with contempt the venomous, scathing and malicious attacks directed against the SACP's character by Mr Irvin Jim, current General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). The SACP is, on the contrary, a leading and only Marxist-Leninist Vanguard Party in our country.
The statement by Mr Irvin Jim, published on Politics Web constitute the most slanderous and destructive public attack against the SACP by a supposedly SACP member in good standing since the Party was unbanned in 1990.
The SACP Gauteng strongly believes that this latest version of a ranting by a self-tiring populist demagogue, who is apparently bidding farewell to the revolutionary movement and the Party in particular, represents the most anti-communist, anti-worker invective post the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.
Whilst we would under normal circumstances not give credence to this cheap populist rhetoric surely befitting to amuse "mocking-birds", we believe this particular attack is consistent with many of its ilk.