The Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party is spearheaded by Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim and endorsed by Saftu and Zwelinzima Vavi.
In what will go down in history as South Africa’s first socialist party to ever contest national elections post-1994, the Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party was launched in Benoni on Thursday – a development set to pose a significant challenge to the governing African National Congress in next month’s polls.
Numsa, an affiliate of Saftu, is the country’s largest trade union with 370,000 members, while its federation’s membership is currently sitting at 531,000. At its colourful inaugural congress attended by a singing and chanting crowd of over 1,000 people who thronged a giant white marquee at the Birchwood Hotel, the SRWP unveiled its draft manifesto and constitution adopted by 944 delegates, drawn from the country’s nine provinces.
The congress, which was also attended by socialist leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, Zambia, Namibia, Sweden, Spain, United States and Nepal, called on the Brazilian government to free that country’s imprisoned most popular politician and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been incarcerated on charges of corruption.
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