SACP GAUTENG STRONLY CONDEMNS ATTEMPTS BY A COALITION OF CLASS FORCES TO SUBVERT RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN MANGAUNG
Following a successful SACP Gauteng PEC on Saturday, 8th December 2012, we note desperate attempts by a coalition of class forces representing the historic interests of both the white, and its black appendage, monopoly capital as agents of Imperialism to frustrate the efforts, and the clear objectives, of the ANC's 53rd Mangaung Conference to radically alter and change economic power relations in our country since the 1994 democratic breakthrough.
This coalition of mutually reinforcing and coalescing imperialist class forces composed of bankers, CEO's of monopoly capital, a faction of the religious sector, opposition parties, self-anointed political commentators and certain sections of the neo-liberal media, showed its ugly physiognomy this week.
The presence of bankers in this company is particularly unwelcome.
We must also count the highly factionalised public broadcaster, the SABC, within this group.
This coalition, in a concerted manner, and day after day, has launched a series of scathing attacks and political threats against the leadership of the country, and against the entire ANC-led broad democratic movement.
The SACP in Gauteng strongly condemns this newly-found and well-coordinated web of political interests. We note that it continues to trumpet the same tired lies and falsehoods about lack of leadership and moral consciousness in the country. We know that they only do this so as to disguise their true intentions.
Their main intention is to undermine the radical and fundamental economic change that will be initiated in Mangaung, for the benefit of the working and the poor of our country, and the continent of Africa.
We remain firmly convinced that attempts to isolate and scapegoat the President of the ANC and country, comrade President Jacob Zuma, are part of the same historic agenda to weaken, and even to liquidate, the ANC and its Alliance partners. The intention of these forces is, in the final analysis, to stage nothing less than a counter-revolution in our country. This we say from many similar experiences of reaction against revolutionary forces, forces similar to the ANC, in many parts of the continent and the world.
The SACP is confident that the so-called letters and memoranda to the President, with their opportunistic threats of using civil society and negative investor sentiment to weaken the National Democratic Revolution, will simply amount to yet another failed attempt to destabilise and weaken our democratic project.
We are also confident that the revolutionary courage and determination that mobilised the broad membership of the ANC, through internal democratic processes, to overwhelmingly defend the leadership of President Jacob Zuma, will prevail again and deliver fundamental change for the South African economy, in Mangaung.
We call on revolutionary forces within the ANC, the Alliance and the broad democratic movement to remain vigilant and consistent, so as to ensure that the principle, and perspective, of a second phase of a transition in the Strategy and Tactics document of the ANC, for a fundamental change of the economy, is realised in Mangaung.
We remain confident that the new coalition of imperialist class agents, infected with the danger of mutating into yet another attempted alternative counter-revolutionary political party, will be rejected with contempt by the working class and poor of our country, as has happened with all such previous attempts.
The posture and tone of this coalition clearly confirms our view that this is certainly a political agenda, than a genuine and constructive engagement that we surely welcome. Our country and President Jacob Zuma in particular, created platforms and structures for robust and constructive engagement with various sectors and interest groups abroad and here at home.
President Zuma's door is always wide open for any serious and constructive discussion with all concerned groups in our country. The timing and political space for this coalition to present its concerns raises more questions than answers.
We therefore challenge this coalition to explain the reasons for easily opting for populist and sensational commercial media instead of the current, easily accessible and effective platforms for constructive platforms.
We are confident that the ANC 53rd National Conference will reaffirm the centrality of the Alliance as the most unique feature and strength of the South African revolution.
We will continue to defend the leadership of President Zuma as the son of the working class, peasantry and poor of our country, against unfair, unprincipled, highly personalised attacks and scape-goating of him for the historic problems facing our country. Whereas these historic problems are the objective basis for the very existence of the ANC, its Alliance partners, and the broad democratic movement, it remains questionable why they are so personalised on President Jacob Zuma .
Statement issued by Jacob Mamabolo, SACP Gauteng Provincial Secretary, December 12 2012
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