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Communist Party of Swaziland to hold its National Conference from 18-22 April 2019: Appeal for messages from fraternal forces

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Communist Party of Swaziland to hold its National Conference from 18-22 April 2019: Appeal for messages from fraternal forces

17th April 2019

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The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) will hold its non-elective National Conference during the long Easter weekend in South Africa, Mpumalanga Province. The CPS hereby appeals for messages to the National Conference from fraternal forces worldwide.
 
Details of the National Conference are as follows:
 
Date:               18-22 April 2019
Venue:            Mpumalanga Province
Theme:           Mobilising the Masses for Maximum Defiance Against Tinkhundla Regime
 
The aim of the Conference is to take stock of everything that happened in the past year, and plan for the coming year bearing in mind the CPS Programme of Action 2016-2020. The CPS Conference will also dedicate time to assess policies of the Party regarding, at the core, the situation of the main sectors in which the Party organises; Workers, Peasants, Women, Youth and Students. The Conference will also carefully analyse and come up with policies on questions related to the land, education and health, in addition to a review of the situation of the working class and oppressed peoples worldwide and the fight against imperialism.
 
In the year 2018 workers of Swaziland engaged in relentless battles against the tinkhundla regime which has oppressed the people of Swaziland since 12 April 1973. On that day, the late king, Sobhuza II, abrogated the independence constitution, banned all political parties and formations, and bestowed all executive, legislative and judicial powers upon himself, thereby creating an absolute monarchy. Henceforth the monarch would rule by decree. The powers of the monarch bestowed through that 12 April 1973 decree remain as they were, if not worse, albeit now under the 2005 constitution of Swaziland.
 
During nationwide protest actions throughout 2018, workers under the leadership of the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA) also called for the boycott of the tinkhundla elections. The tinkhundla elections process is nothing but a waste of public resources. Swaziland’s parliament, virtually a powerless entity, is nothing but a toy for absolute monarch Mswati to implement his unilaterally taken decisions without any opposition. In this regard, the Conference will also take an opportunity to review the Party’s anti-elections campaign and draw lessons moving forward.
 
In each of the workers’ struggles, the regime responded with violence against unarmed protesters, firing live rounds at workers and injuring many in the process. More workers continue to face victimisation from the regime for their activism in the past year.
 
The Party will also deliberate on practical ways on which to mobilise the working class of the entire world for the isolation of the tinkhundla regime. The focus in this international work is the mobilisation, not merely of the leaders of the different organisations in the international arena, but the masses of the people in every facet in which they find themselves in their various countries, to build and strengthen an active, mass-based international solidarity movement to raise the plight of the oppressed people of Swaziland.
 
Issued by the Communist Party of Swaziland
 
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