SACP has long fought for the landless
THIS year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the SACP at the inaugural congress of the party held from July 30 to August 1, 1921. The party’s founding resolution was passed on the first day of the congress, July 30, 1921.
The SACP became the first political organisation to be banned by the apartheid regime in 1950, shortly after it came to power after a racist “general election” in 1948, under an act dedicated to abolishing not just the party, but any communist thinking and activity in South Africa.
In the face of the ban, the party adopted a tactical resolution to “dissolve itself” and immediately thereafter formed units in major centres of South Africa to reorganise itself underground to continue the struggle for democracy and freedom – which can only be possible entirely for the first time under a
