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Size: 4 MB 14Th Nov 2019 2ND NPA DISCUSSION DOCUMENT A4 Consolidating the ground towards socialist power! Table of content ORGANISATIONAL CHARACTER ............................................................................ 2 AND RE-DESIGN .................................................................................................... 2 LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM .......................................................................... 33 ON GENDER STRUGGLES.................................................................................... 53 MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE BATTLE OF IDEAS .................................... 67 HEALTH ............................................................................................................. 103 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................................... 118 EDUCATION ..................................................................................................... 127 PAN AFRICANISM AND PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONALISM ............................... 151 THE ECONOMY ................................................................................................ 168 STATE CAPACITY ............................................................................................... 187 THE JUSTICE SYSTEM ......................................................................................... 225 SPORTS, ARTS AND CULTURE ............................................................................ 231 1 ND 2 National People’s Assembly ORGANISATIONAL CHARACTER AND RE-DESIGN 2 Consolidating the ground towards socialist power! Table of Contents 1) INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 4 2) WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS? THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE EFF ............ 5 3) THE ORGANISATIONAL MANIFESTATION OF THE EFF ............................................................ 6 4) THE IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL MANIFESTATION OF THE EFF ......................................... 7 5) THE ACTIVIST, CAMPAIGNING AND MASS MOVEMENT MANIFESTATION OF THE EFF. ......... 10 6) THE GOVERNANCE MANIFESTATION OF THE EFF ................................................................ 11 7) THE PAN-AFRICANIST AND INTERNATIONALIST MANIFESTATION OF THE EFF...................... 13 8) THE EFF STUDENT’S COMMAND MANIFESTATION ............................................................... 15 9) WHAT IS AN IDEAL ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS AS AN ORGANISATION? ................... 15 10) WHAT IS AN IDEAL CENTRAL COMMAND TEAM (CCT) OF THE EFF? ..................................... 17 11) WHAT IS AN IDEAL PROVINCE OF THE EFF? .......................................................................... 18 12) WHAT IS AN IDEAL REGION OF THE EFF? ............................................................................. 19 13) WHAT IS AN IDEAL SUB-REGION OF THE EFF? ...................................................................... 19 14) WHAT IS AN IDEAL BRANCH OF THE EFF?............................................................................. 19 15) WHAT IS AN IDEAL ACTIVIST OF THE EFF? ............................................................................ 20 16) WHAT IS THE CURRENT REALITY? THE DIAGNOSIS: .............................................................. 21 17) WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS OF THE EFF? ............................................................................. 23 18) WHAT IS TO BE DONE? ......................................................................................................... 24 19) WHAT TO OPPOSE AND COMBAT IN THE MOVEMENT......................................................... 27 20) ORGANISATIONAL RE-DESIGN ............................................................................................. 28 21) CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................... 32 3 ND 2 National People’s Assembly 1) INTRODUCTION 1. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is an economic emancipation movement founded in the year 2013, as a political party. When measured against political parties founded post the 1994 first inclusive elections in South Africa, the EFF has recorded tremendous quantitative and qualitative growth. The EFF effectively outdid all political organisations founded post-1994, in terms of rapid quantitative expansion and qualitative contributions to South Africa’s political, ideological and parliamentary discourse. In its few years of existence the EFF has registered numerous organisational, political, ideological and economic victories. These range from real impact on the lives of ordinary people in various corners of South Africa, to determining and guiding the country’s political discourse, and importantly changes at a systemic level that have seen to a considerable improvement in the lives and conditions of black people. 2. The strength of the EFF as a political party that intends taking over government is, however, not adequate when compared to the ruling party in South Africa, and when measured against its own potential and capacity to grow. In a country, the foundation of whose economy is super-exploitation and oppression of the working class and black people in general, the EFF as the only available dependable instrument in the hands of the working class ought to have an impact on society much bigger than it is at present. To comprehend this, the political and organisational strength of the EFF must be measured against the ruling party, and not against the smaller political parties because none of them exist with a deliberate intention, agenda and programme to take over political power and advance society towards a socialist and pan Africanist alternative. 3. The EFF is an economic emancipation movement for socialism with a pan-Africanist and internationalist outlook- and its comprehension and appreciation of socialism is located within the ideological commitment to Marxism-Leninism and Fanon’s thoughts. What distinguishes Marxist scientific socialism to what is known as utopian socialism is its commitment to political action. When scientific socialism was distinguished from utopian socialism, the 1st International Resolution on working class organisation said; “considering, that against this collective power of the propertied classes the working class cannot act, as a class, except by constituting itself into a political party, distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed by the propertied classes... that this constitution of the working class into a political party is indispensable in order to ensure the triumph of the social revolution and its ultimate end - the abolition of classes”. 4. This formulation represents the original foundation of political parties representing the working class. And the central kernel in this formulation is the claim that the “working class cannot act, as a class, except by constituting itself into a political party, distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed by the propertied classes”. The EFF is a political party of the working class, and it ought, and should as such distinguish itself from parties of the propertied classes. 4 Consolidating the ground towards socialist power! 5. This Organisational Re-design Discussion Document is styled as an organic contribution to how the EFF ought and should be positioned as an impactful political party of the working class and as a party that must win political power from those who have it now, capture the State, take over the economy and redistribute it equally amongst all people. In doing so, the document will focus on the following areas; a. What is the Economic Freedom Fighters? b. What is an ideal Organisation, the Economic Freedom Fighters? c. What should define a Central Command Team of the EFF? d. What should define a Province of the EFF? e. What should define a Region of the EFF? f. What should define a Sub-Region of the EFF? g. What should define a Branch of the EFF? h. What is the current state of the Economic Freedom Fighters? i. What is to be done? j. What must be avoided? k. Organisational re-design l. Specific Constitutional Amendment Provisions. 6. The outright and unapologetic purpose of this Organisational Re-design Perspective is to build an organisation that is capable of mobilising all social forces behind the struggle for economic freedom, win political power, govern and lead a political Pan-Africanist programme to decolonise the African continent in its entirety. To achieve such, the EFF must not be a clone of any of the existing organisations. The EFF ought and should be a modern revolutionary mass organisation that maximally appreciates the new technological developments/ innovations and communication platforms, without de- centring the need for direct grassroots organising, mobilisation, education and agitation. The redesign document aims to build an organisation that will win over mass power, take political power, take over the state, and reclaim the economy on behalf of the working class and property-less majority. 2) WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS? THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE EFF 7. As a revolutionary mass and ideologically grounded organisation, the EFF has several manifestations, yet retains a singularity of purpose. This means that despite being a single organisation, the EFF manifests itself in different forms in the same way anti-colonial political parties manifested themselves as liberation movements, mass movements, underground movements, civil organisations,
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