Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections.
These political parties are contesting for seats in the 2019 National Assembly elections on 8 May 2019.
Please note you STILL need to go to the polls on 8 May 2019 and VOTE in person .........
Today we introduce you to: Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party – SRWP
The SRWP is the political party arm of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa). Although it hoped to win the support of the workers, it was almost immediately dealt a blow in 2018 when Zwelinzima Vavi’s South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) said the federation would not support the party. As you would expect from a union-backed party, the SRWP champions socialism, opposes privatisation, and says that the ANC and DA’s support for the unbundling of Eskom amounts to both parties “plotting slavery wages”. Its approach to the 2019 elections is somewhat conflicted: The SRWP is against the “bourgeois electoral system” on principle, but will participate in order to meet the “strategic and revolutionary objectives” of the party.
Our vision is one of a united Socialist South Africa, free of oppression and economic exploitation.
Such a South Africa is one in which racism, patriarchy, national domination and class exploitation have been vanquished.
All its people enjoy the highest possible material and cultural development, are happy and live in peace. Such a South Africa must be free from poverty, unemployment and inequalities!
Fed up with the neoliberal Tripartite Alliance, workers from the largest and most militant union in South Africa, the National Union Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA).
The Alliance has been captured and taken over by right-wing forces. Those who are perceived to be against neo-liberalism or to be advocates of policies in favour of the working class and the poor are seen as problematic, isolated or purged.
The ANC, DA and other parties operate within the confines of white monopoly capitalism! As such, Numsa resolved to intitiate the process of building a new working class vanguard organisation.
Only a democratically controlled, mass-based workers’ vanguard party, with a programme based on Marxism-Leninism, will represent workers interests. Numsa needed to initiate the building of a political organisation dedicated to the total transformation of society.
As Numsa President, Andrew Chirwa explained: “We must create the revolutionary mass vanguard political party to lead the struggle for socialism in South Africa. The alternative is the continued savagery and barbarism of capitalism, and civil wars.”
From Russia 1917 to Numsa 2013, the SRWP emerges out of a long international and local struggle against capitalism.
We draw our historical legacy from the work of revolutions as waged by the Bolsheviks as, as V. I. Lenin understood, “The struggle of the workers becomes a class struggle only when all the foremost representatives of the entire working class of the whole country are conscious of themselves as a single working class and launch a struggle that is directed, not against individual employers, but against the entire class of capitalists and against the government that supports that class.”
SRWP Manifesto: https://www.srwp.org.za/copy-of-manifesto
This information is gathered from the IEC and the above party website or publicly available documents.
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