SACP slams ANC over Conference of the Left criticism

By Thapelo Molefe

The South African Communist Party (SACP) has lashed out at the ANC following its decision to boycott the Conference of the Left, accusing the party of adopting an “arrogant, isolationist and self-glorifying posture” towards working-class organisations.

In a response issued on Wednesday, the SACP rejected remarks made by ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula after the ANC National Executive Committee resolved not to attend the conference, scheduled to take place in Boksburg from Friday to Sunday.

The ANC had described the gathering as “a coalition of negation” aimed primarily at opposing the ANC and questioned whether it could legitimately be regarded as a left-wing formation.

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Responding to the criticism, the SACP said the ANC leadership had wrongly reduced the conference to an anti-ANC project while dismissing the political agency of organisations participating in it.

“This logic assumes that all these forces