In Pictures: Conference of the Left

By Lebone Rodah Mosima and Charmaine Ndlela

The Conference of the Left has begun 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