SACP has failed in its revolutionary duty, says CWU

Published Aug 29, 2016

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Johannesburg - The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has rounded on the SACP, accusing it of failing to look out for the working class.

CWU general secretary Aubrey Tshabalala told the media on Monday that the party had failed in its “revolutionary duty”.

“The SACP has failed in its revolutionary duty as a vanguard of the working class, but has focused rather on being a populist and a commentary organisation guilty of not applying in depth scientific analyses regarding matters of the workers in South Africa.”

The CWU said the party’s silence while the union had been fighting for workers at various companies, especially at the SA Post Office was too loud.

“We missed our party where workers whom are coming from the poor background and previously disadvantaged were reduced to causal workers for the past 22 years. Their silence was too loud. We miss their voice and now we miss them at the picketing lines today when we facing the white monopoly capital onslaught at Telkom. We miss our party,” he said.

Tshabalala said the “current state that of paralyses” in the SACP was the main reason why worker politics and Cosatu as a federation were not at their best.

Both Cosatu and the SACP have suffered internal division as a result of factional politics in the ANC. Over recent days both organisations have called for an end to divisions in the ruling party.

Labour Bureau

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