Induction, Part 7c
Young
Communist League
From the YCL Web site:
“The Young Communist League
of South Africa is a Marxist-Leninist youth wing of the SACP.
“The YCL stands for Non
Racism, Freedom, Equality and the socialisation of the ownership and control of
the means of production.”
Preamble of the YCLSA Constitution:
We, the Young Communist
League of South Africa founded in 1922, banned in 1950 and re-established in
2003, are a voluntary mass organisation of the youth in South Africa.
We are devoted to the
interests of all young people and dedicated to the revolutionary cause of the
working class of our country and the globe.
We are committed to and
struggle for the transformation of South Africa from a capitalist society to a
socialist society in which there is no exploitation of one person or group by
another.
The YCLSA recognises the
South African Communist Party (SACP) as the political party of socialism in our
country and enjoys political and ideological guidance from the SACP.
Young Communists promote the
unity of progressive young people of our country with the progressive peoples
and youth of all countries.
Aims and Objectives of the YCLSA according to its
Constitution:
The YCLSA shall:
(a) Serve as a preparatory
school of the SACP, and shall rally young people behind the programme and
policies of the Party and lead them in the struggle to advance youth
development as an integral part of human and societal development.
(b) Strive to develop itself
as a leading political force of the South African youth that derives
guidance from Marxism-Leninism under the vanguard leadership of the SACP,
and promote the interests of young people in the struggle to advance,
deepen, defend, take responsibility for and complete the national democratic
revolution which represents the shortest, most direct and suited road to
socialism in the specific conditions of our society.
(c) Strive to be the leading
force among young people in the struggle for the achievement of socialism
which represents a transitional society towards the realisation of
complete political liberation and universal emancipation of both human
society and nature under the ultimate goal of a classless communist society.
(d) Struggle for the
elimination of all forms of oppression, discrimination based on arbitrary
grounds, and economic exploitation, and shall fight against capitalism,
its highest stage imperialism and latest forms of manifestation.
(e) Strive to develop
communist, working class political and moral convictions and imbue the
spirit of collectivism in our members in particular and young people in
general. The YCLSA aims to achieve this by among others organising,
educating and mobilising its members in particular and young people in general
in support of its aims and objectives and taking active involvement in the
day to day struggles of the working people and the youth.
(f) Reject and fight against
crime, corruption, the abuse of women, children, substances, drugs and alcohol.
(g) Fight for the equality of
all young people, and against racism and patriarchy in all forms of their
manifestation.
(h) Promote social,
recreational and cultural activities among young people.
(i) Promote the understanding
among the youth that the working class with a vanguard party is the only
class capable of leading the people to socialism and that it is under
socialism where for the first time it will be possible to achieve a better
life for all.
Please find attached, the
Constitution of the Young Communist League of South Africa.
CU comment
As a voluntary mass
organisation of the youth, the YCL gives experience of how voluntary mass
organisations work and how they are structured. At the same time, as an organisation
that is not separate from the SACP, the YCL imparts a sense of what the
vanguard party is about.
The YCL educates its members
politically, and it inducts them, organisationally, to the whole movement – the
National Democratic Revolutionary Alliance.
This part 7 of the CU
Induction course has been about the South African mass democratic movement as
an environment or field within which the communist party operates.
The next part will be about
the State environment in which the Party currently operates, locally,
provincially and nationally.
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The above is to
introduce an original reading-text: YCLSA Constitution, 2013.
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