Development,
Part 10a
Imvuselelo Campaign
The SACP’s
call to “swell the ranks” of the ANC is not
an attempt to gain a majority in the ANC and thereby to take it over. To do
that would be counter-productive. The SACP does not need another clone of itself.
The SACP needs the ANC to be the ANC: The expression of National Democratic
Revolutionary class alliance, and of unity in action; in short, the SACP needs
the ANC to be South Africa’s liberation movement.
The growth
of the ANC is a tactical necessity for a South Africa that is still trying to
realise its full freedom. This is the same reason that the SACP has been
building the ANC since the 1920s, without any pause. At the beginning of their
relationship the ANC was a much smaller organisation than the SACP.
The ANC
complements the SACP and COSATU. No one of these three can replace or
substitute for either of the others. None of them can do without the others.
All three have to be grown, for the sake of all three.
Now, while
the SACP is aiming for half a million members, the ANC is pushing for one
million. The organised trade union movement may altogether have three million
members.
This growth
of mass democratic formations is the working out of the National Democratic
Revolution, which moves towards completion in proportion to the democratisation
of the popular masses in various mass democratic structures, elaborated at
different levels and throughout the country.
The ANC’s
expansion and extension plan is called the Imvuselelo
Campaign. The linked document below is made up of part of an ANC statement
re-launching the Imvuselelo Campaign on 12 August 2010, plus a link to the “How to join the ANC” pages on the ANC
web site.
Tomorrow we will look at the role of Trade Unions and the
actual and potential role of SADTU in particular.
- The above is to
introduce the original reading-text: ANC Imvuselelo
Campaign and How to Join the ANC.
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