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SOUTH AFRICA’S communists resolved in principle at the weekend during their 14th national congress in Boksburg to contest elections separately from their African National Congress revolutionary alliance partner.
The alliance brings together the ANC, SACP, trade union federation Cosatu and the Sanco civics organisation, but anger over corruption at the highest levels of the ANC has stoked existing fires within the SACP that the party should stand in its own right.
Second deputy general secretary Chris “Che” Matlhako, who was elected for the first time at the congress, stressed that “the exact modality in which we do so needs to be determined by way of concrete analysis and through the process of active engagement with worker and progressive formations.”
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how ancient traditions practiced today can be the cornerstone of anti-imperialism in Africa
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism