The theme “Consolidate working class power for quality jobs - Towards 2015” summarises the key tasks of the working class in the next 12 years. The 2015 plan towards the 12th National Congress in 2015, which coincides with our 30th anniversary, must address these challenges systematically and place the working class at the head of the transformation process. 2. The 2015 plan: Consolidate working class power for quality jobs – Toward 2015 The 2015 plan defines priorities, benchmarks and core strategies for taking forward the national democratic revolution. To ensure systematic implementation, each Congress from now must review our progress, analysing our gains and failures in carrying out our programme. In particular, we must urgently define clear goals for the Ninth Congress in 2006. The two central pillars of our strategy must be building working-class power and ensuring quality jobs. These twin thrusts must be linked, reinforcing each other. In particular, engagement on policy issues must support organisational development, rather than overshadowing it. Our longer-term approach has to define, above all, 1. Strategies to build our power as the organised working class both in South Africa and internationally, 2. Strategies to make our relationship with the Alliance work, and 3. The priority areas for intervening on socio-economic policy in the shorter run. Our vision for 2015 is shaped by the following benchmarks: 1. Systematic and rigorous implementation of the recommendations of the Organisational Review Commission, ensuring amongst others achievement of membership of over four million, with a united working class and depth of organisation and militancy 2. Defending of our political gains and space. In this regard we need a strong ANC and SACP, rather than weakened alliance partners. 3. Deepening of the gains to establish socialist forums that debates all major challenges facing the working class whilst playing a major role in deepening the political conscious working class on the ground 4. A large pool of cadres with organisational, political and ideological depth 5. Working class leadership of the National Democratic Revolution, including in the ANC, the SACP and key organs of people’s power 6. Stronger civil society, especially community-based organisations, and stronger involvement of locals in local government and mobilisation 7. A stronger role for the working class, blacks and women in the public discourse, challenging the hegemony of capital on a larger scale 8. Clear measures in place to reverse rising unemployment, poverty and inequality, ensuring that the share of the working class in national income is on the rise. In this context, increased capacity for affiliates to influence sectoral and workplace restructuring. 9. Resurgence of the African trade union movement and COSATU playing a central role in developing the perspective of the international trade union movement.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:18:10 +0000
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