By Lebone Rodah Mosima and Charmaine Ndlela
The Conference of the Left is set to begin at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg on Friday without the participation of the African National Congress (ANC), after the governing party dismissed the gathering as “a coalition of negation” aimed primarily at opposing it.
The three-day conference, convened by the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other left-wing organisations, is being held under the theme “Building a Left Movement for Working Class and Popular Power”.
Parties expected to attend include the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) and the Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA).
In a statement released ahead of the gathering, the SACP said the conference was not intended to establish a new political party or impose ideological uniformity, but to “strengthen coordination, unity in action, political education and organised struggle
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