O R Tambo
Strategy and
Tactics
“The art of revolutionary leadership consists in
providing leadership to the masses and not just to its most advanced elements…”
The above line from the ANC’s
Morogoro Strategy and Tactics of 1969 (please download it via the link given below)
can be taken as the idea of the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) in a
nutshell. Politics is in the subjective realm – it is about the ultimate
subjectivity, freedom – but politics can only have an existence within the
limits of objective realities.
Joe Slovo
The NDR has a steadily-built
organisational history of personalities, of events and of documents, working
within, and at the same time changing by its action, the balance of class
forces in South Africa.
Next to the Freedom Charter,
the ANC Strategy and Tactics document of 1969 is the most prominent of all the
NDR documents. In discussing the military activities of Umkhonto we Siswe (MK),
it outlines alliance politics in terms that are sometimes crystal-clear, and
sometimes not so clear. For an example of the latter, the enemy is not well
described. Still, the Morogoro S&T is the best one to use as the basis for
a discussion of the subjective political action of this period, and for some
remarks on the underlying class realities, as well.
Dr Yusuf Dadoo
The Treason Trial had come to
an end in 1959 with acquittal of all the defendants. New campaigns were then
launched, but came to an abrupt end following the Sharpeville massacre and the
banning of the ANC and the PAC. Umkhonto we Sizwe was launched in 1961.
Technically it was neither a “wing” of the ANC, nor of the Party, and a new
structure had to be put into place to make MK accountable to the political
leadership. Dr Yusuf Dadoo played a leading role in that structure.
Please download and read
this text via the following link:
Strategy and
Tactics, Morogoro, 1969, ANC
(5882 words)
Further reading:
SACP Constitution, 2007
(6603 words)
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