IN THE CONTEXT of the other political developments described elsewhere on these South African Communist Party (SACP) to the deepening ANC government under Mbeki's leadership is obviously Last month the SACP carried our the expulsion of Dale ic domain.... McKinley, author of The ANC and the Liberation Struggle: A (1997), on essentially political grounds.
The charges on which McKinley was thrown ouc all relate to public criticisms hel has made in various publications (in South Africa and tomatonor the doc cory of the government, in parcicular in relation to the trade unions.
One ridiculous aspect of the frame up is that McKinley is accused of failing to argue his point of view within the CP that he has hidden his politics.
But it is clear that the posicited are completely in line with the theses in his book: Which Mckingy me SACP explains as follows: "its main argument was that the pecty bourgeois politics informing strategy and tactics of the out the ANC's history, consistently resulted in the undergenuine and lasting transfer of power to the people Commenting on his expulsion, MeKinley stated: "The reversion to crude suppression of dissent, masked as an internal organisational issue of discaptine is a very sad and negen tive development for the "movement and for progressives in sit more generaly.
I will, of course. continue to Sight for the socialism | have always beleved in, and will do so through other structures and strugeles taking place here and in the region.
'If the SACP leadership car no onerorke cite con munists, then critical communists will forge ahead in spite of ingly hypocritical communist leadership. Defence In his defence. MicKinley has SACP Constitution, the SACP .. "will work to end the system or capilss exproiaison int South Africa and to establish a socialist society based on the common ownership of, participation in, and control by the producers of the key means of production"
Furthermore, the SACP will and lead the working class in the struggle for socialism. (and)
for working class neremony past.
over society, in particular the ownership and control of the economy and the achievement of one united state of people's power These 'guiding principles' have informed my own understanding and informed the pracocal scavides that i nave undertaken since joining the it is my contencon that these charges represent a misto discourage and/or silence legitimate socialist debate and within the SACP or in the pub"Ar a time when the forces of the working class are faced with the most concerted and expansive attack from the political and economic represimply incomprehensible why he SACP leadership would Himsey drace ac ONE NATION ONE South Africa's ONE INDUSTRY ONE