SACP Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee Statement, 9 February 2015
SACP Gauteng Condemns the EFF Fascist Threat to Disrupt the State of the Nation Address
The SACP 2nd Deputy General Secretary Comrade Solly Mapaila speaking at the SACP Gauteng provincial lecture on ‘anti-fascism' denounced the EFF's obsession with violence, destruction and anarchy and further vowed that the South African working class shall isolate and finally defeat these violent bigoted fascists who serve the interests of the reactionary capitalist ruling class.
The SACP held its lecture as a continuation of the Provincial Lekgotla yesterday at the Soweto theatre attended by more than 500 delegates from across the province of Gauteng.
The Lekgotla also notes that the EFF preys on a demagogic mobilisation of a relatively small, insignificant, minority and lumpen section of unemployed youth as storm-troopers for its reactionary violent campaign of anarchy. It takes advantage of the structural unemployment affecting many South African youth. It also aims to grow its presence in organisations of the working class in South Africa although its campaign has dismally failed to gain traction amongst the working class base.
Both the DA and EFF tactics converge in the subordination of working class to bourgeois politics.
Though the Lekgotla called for further debate for the tactics of the struggle against fascism, it recognised that the EFF cannot fully exercise its fascist function without an alliance with sections of the DA as an unadulterated party of monopoly capital. Fascism requires both the demagogic, violent, anarchic element to be complemented by the rightwing of monopoly capital, the DA.
This gives the development of a fascist movement the duality of its character in South Africa. Fascism is a puzzle, consisting of an alliance by the EFF and the DA.
As part of responding to this development, the Lekgotla agreed to join the Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) on a special effort to fight the spiral of drug addiction in our communities.
In this regard we pledge to mobilise young people to reject the violence and anarchy of the EFF and its fascist outlook.
The provincial Secretary Comrade Jacob Mamabolo addressing the Lekgotla condemned the growing pattern by the EFF, to rent demented thugs in its campaign of destabilisation.
He observed that the fascist force is more dangerously positioned than ever before, given that it is fast losing the veil of a fake revolutionary profile. It is evident in the working class rejection of its policies.
The renting of thugs to attack government buildings as witnessed in Randfontein is symptomatic of the operation of these incoherent lunatics, who burn schools, clinics and libraries.
The ANC Provincial Secretary Comrade Hope Papo also condemned the spate of violence in working class communities driven by the desperate EFF.
The threat to disrupt the State of the nation address by President Jacob Zuma is typical of the political and fascist social outlook that receives promotion in the monopoly capital owned media, who praise these thugs as "robust".
In the conclusion of the Lekgotla the SACP emphasised the need to formally launch a campaign for revolutionary people's culture, which has the primary objective to push back the destructive, hate-driven violence affecting particularly the elders, women, children and foreign nationals.
This campaign will focus on mass mobilisation, ideological and political education of our people, through a systematic program by the communist university. It will focus on cultivating the values of Ubuntu, promote harmony amongst our people, unity, internationalism and respect for human lives.
The SACP is resolute on the offensive against fascism in our communities and society in general.
Down with fascism!
Statement issued by Jacob Mamabolo, SACP Gauteng Provincial Secretary, February 10 2015
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