By Lebone Rodah Mosima
Left-wing political parties and organisations are heading into the final day of the Conference of the Left on Sunday, with speakers having called for a united front against poverty, inequality, neo-colonialism, and the Government of National Unity (GNU).
The three-day conference, convened by the South African Communist Party (SACP) at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, has brought together political parties, trade unions, civic organisations and other left formations as the SACP seeks to build a coordinated platform outside the traditional boundaries of the ANC-led alliance.
The SACP has said the aim is to strengthen “coordination, unity in action, political education and organised struggle among diverse left, working-class and popular formations”.
Political parties represented at the conference include the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA), uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), United Africans Transformation (UAT), Workers’
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