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Title: | The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Post-Apartheid Period |
Author: | Thomas, David P. |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 111 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 123-138 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | South African Communist Party economic policy Politics and Government History and Exploration |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240701340456 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4D95BC361423DB254DBE |
Abstract: | This article examines the South African Communist Party (SACP) and its role in contesting the hegemonic project of neoliberalism in the postapartheid period (1994-2004). It discusses the Party's written attacks on neoliberalism, support for the Congress of South African Trade Union's (COSATU's) campaigns against privatization, the formation of the Young Communist League (YCL), and the current campaigns surrounding cooperatives and financial sector reform. As the SACP is embedded within the ruling African National Congress (ANC), the Party's attempts to critique and fight neoliberalism have remained rhetorical and ineffective. Rather than directly confronting the neoliberal policies of the ANC, the SACP has instead cooperated with the ANC, hoping to pull it more to the 'left'. The SACP's dedication to influencing the ANC has come at the expense of building a mass base of support that opposes neoliberalism. This approach has ultimately resulted in an accommodation to neoliberalism, and exposes many difficult contradictions for the SACP. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |