SACP message on the 109th founding anniversary of the ANC
Friday, 8 January 2021: The South African Communist Party (SACP) salutes the African National Congress (ANC) on this important occasion of its 109th founding anniversary. The ANC has played an important role in uniting the oppressed to wage the struggle to overthrow colonial and apartheid rule and oppression in our country, and in rebuilding and transforming our country following our 1994 democratic breakthrough in the interests of especially the workers and poor.
The weapon of unity
As things stand, the greatest enemy to our movement is not from outside but from inside. Internal divisions and factional conduct anchored in capitalist relations and associated competition for access to and control of organisational and state power and resources constitute the biggest threat to our national democratic revolution and movement.
The national democratic revolution—our programme for democratic and broader social transformation towards the goals of the Freedom Charter—depends on the weapon of unity to succeed. Therefore, the SACP takes this opportunity to emphasise the importance of organisational renewal and unity of the ANC. That must include the unity and reconfiguration of the ANC-headed Alliance to function optimally. The Alliance remains strategically important. We expect the ANC to lead in protecting and nurturing this Alliance.
The SACP calls upon the ANC and the whole of the Alliance to stop using important gatherings, like conferences and congresses, as battlegrounds for factions. Neither should we begin to attach names and surnames to the resolutions of our movement as if they were adopted to target certain individuals.