In a statement on the 108th anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC), the party’s communist partner said ‘we must move the national democratic revolution … into a second radical phase’.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) said this was necessary to counter the crisis of ‘inequality, poverty and unemployment’.
The crisis could be blamed on the ‘legacy of colonialism, apartheid’ whose ‘material basis and daily reproduction are … firmly anchored in the system of capitalism and its endemic crisis’.
The SACP statement said: ‘As if that were not enough, state capture and other forms of corruption have become a serious threat to our democratic dispensation and national development. Associated with the problem is the malady of factionalism. To overcome these problems, we must go to the root, rather than merely focus on the effects.
‘Working together we must move the national democratic revolution, our shared programme of national transformation and development, into a second radical phase. We must give the national democratic revolution profound expression in policy making and content and advance, deepen and defend the democratic transition to the end.’