He accused the faction of being conspirators behind the recent violent destruction of property and looting in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
Jeremy Cronin accused the ANC's RET faction of being right-wing primitive accumulators who were behind the recent violence and looting in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.Jeremy Cronin describes the ANC's radical economic transformation faction as a network of right-wing primitive accumulators who are facing the prospect of going to jail.
He said the SACP in its political bureau and in the central committee agreed with the characterisation that was given to the events by President Cyril Ramaphosa, that the recent violence was an attempted counterrevolutionary insurrection. “As a party, as we celebrate our centenary, we have to ask hard questions of ourselves, of our alliance and ask how could this even have happened 27 years after a really critical democratic breakthrough and what are the implications of all of this for the future of the ANC, for the alliance or the party and for the strategy of the national democratic revolution?”
“There is no substantial political programme other than the kind of repetition of a couple of slogans,” he said of the faction. “They are what one British politician once described as 'resolutionaries' — holding on to a couple of resolutions, frogmarching through a conference, without any serious consideration, debate and discussion around strategy, tactics and policies,” he said.
“We have an independent perspective. We are not one or another faction of the ANC and we are not a faction ourselves,” he said. “There was also the dreadful Aids denialism spearheaded by Mbeki, unfortunately, which had genocidal implications,” he said.
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