Council of the Left Unveils New Strategy for South African Leftist Politics
Delegates backed a socialist program that includes Reserve Bank nationalisation, expropriation without compensation and a review of the 1996 Constitution.
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Council of the Left unveils new strategy for South African leftist politics
South Africa: Left Meet Issues Bold Call for Working-Class Unity
The Conference of the Left in South Africa has brought together a wide range of left-wing political parties, socialist organizations, and progressive movements in an effort to forge greater unity, coordination, and collective action among working-class forces.
Left-wing conference calls for nationalisation and constitutional overhaul
South Africa’s first Conference of the Left has declared its intention to push beyond the compromises of the 1994 democratic settlement, adopting a bold socialist line that places nationalisation, land expropriation without compensation and constitutional review firmly back on the national agenda. Meeting in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, the gathering of 13 organisations – including the South African Communist Party (SACP), Azapo, the EFF, the uMkhonto …
In South Africa, the Communist Party organized a Left Conference this weekend. The objective is to unify left-wing forces around common priorities. This initiative is part of a context of growing tensions within the historic alliance between the ANC and the Communist Party, which announced in April that it would stand independently of Nelson Mandela's party in the municipal elections next November.
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