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Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013Table of ContentsDeclaration .......................................................................................................................... 3Resolutions ......................................................................................................................... 81. Economic Transformation and Development .................................................................. 81.1. National Development Plan ........................................................................................ 81.2. Tackling Youth Unemployment in South Africa ......................................................... 151.3. Cooperatives ............................................................................................................ 171.4. The mining sector ..................................................................................................... 181.5. Land Question .......................................................................................................... 182. The 2014 General Elections, Progressive Youth Alliance, the Party and State Power ..... 193. International context and solidarity ............................................................................... 223.1. The African Union ........................................................................................................ 223.2. International solidarity ............................................................................................... 223.2.3.1. Political education on international work ............................................................ 223.2.3.2. Swaziland .......................................................................................................... 233.2.3.3. Palestine ........................................................................................................... 233.2.3.4. Zimbabwe .......................................................................................................... 233.2.3.5. China ................................................................................................................. 243.3. Against Imperialism .................................................................................................. 243.4. Proletariat internationalism, the international trade union movement ........................ 244. Official inquest into the assassination of comrade Chris Hani ...................................... 255. Education and Health ................................................................................................... 255.1. Basic Education ........................................................................................................... 255.2. Post-school education and training ........................................................................... 285.3. Health .......................................................................................................................... 306. Policy, research and Gender related issues ................................................................. 316.1. Policy and research ...................................................................................................... 316.2. Gender ......................................................................................................................... 327. League Building, Finance and Relations with the SACP .............................................. 337.1. League building and SACP-YCLSA relations ........................................................... 337.2. Finance and fundraising ............................................................................................... 388. Media and the battle of ideas ....................................................................................... 39End notes ............................................................................................................................ 40YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 2 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013DeclarationWe, delegates from branches, districts, provinces and the National Committee of theYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA), representing 53 017 membersfrom across country, convened in our National Council from 25 to 28 July 2013, inKimberly. capturing our strategic goal for the universal emancipation of both human societyand nature from capitalist exploitation, and three of the five key priorities facing ournational democratic revolution in the unfolding period. Progress in these priorities iscrucial, in particular to young people as they make up the majority of the unemployedand need quality health care and education.Our National Council was graced by the presence of Central Committee members ofthe South African Communist Party (SACP), including the 2 nd Deputy GeneralSecretary and the General Secretary who addressed us, Congress of South AfricanTrade Unions (COSATU) President who addressed us, and representatives fromProgressive Youth Alliance (PYA) formations, Congress of South Students, SouthAfrican Student Congress and the African National Congress Youth League(ANCYL), who presented messages of support and participated in our deliberations.We received messages of support from a number of local and international solidarityorganisations, among others the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)movement against apartheid Israel, and were addressed by the Minister of Health.Our major task was to reflect on the conditions facing young people in our countryand develop policy responses to the challenges and opportunities that they face.Being the 2 nd National Council since the reestablishment of the YCLSA in 2003, andthe highest decision making body in between national congresses, we concluded allmatters referred to us by our last, 3 rd National Congress held in December 2010. Weassessed the state of progress in building the YCLSA and in advancing its aims andobjectives since reestablishment.We convened at the time when, in our country and abroad, the multiple crises ofcapitalism are deepening and the impact is reaching its zenith, severely affectingyoung people, among others. Problems such as the crises of the balance ofpayments which hit many countries in the global South in the 1980s have resurfaced,posing serious challenges and driving the affected economies in the yoke of globalloan sharks such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which do no good thanharm through conditionalities they attach on borrowings.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 3 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013Negative consequences to democracy have partly as thus arisen, as the antidemocraticnature of conditionalities from global loan sharks lead to people losingsovereignty over economic policy making and direction in their own countries.Coupled with imperialist sponsored conflicts and wars, this is one of the sources forundemocratic changes of governments, as they are driven to act against, if not todisregard, the will and plight of the people through austerity and other measureswhich come from undemocratic institutions such as the IMF.In our country, millions of young people are unemployed, and suffer from classinequalities, exploitation and poverty. This reflects a toxic interaction between theendemic crises of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism and the persistinglegacy of colonial and apartheid capitalism despite progress achieved since the 1994democratic breakthrough.Many young people have no access to skills development opportunities, such asapprenticeships, leanerships, internships and experiential training, because oureconomy is dominated by private enterprises which have a single motive, profitmaking. Accordingly, opening the workplace as a training space is considered a costthe measures pursue profitability and private accumulation.Private enterprises, including the unscrupulous training providers, have beenexploiting the grants available from Sector Education and Training Authorities(SETAs). The looming legal challenge by Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) on thenew grant regulations is therefore nothing, but a ploy to defend the exploitation ofSETA grants in which multi-millions in Rand value terms went down the drain sincethe late 1990s without a dent on the persisting challenge of scarce and critical skillsand the so-called skills mismatch.Meanwhile, since the 1994 breakthrough our democratically elected government hasmade tremendous progress in expanding access to education through schools,colleges and universities, and policies such as the policy of no fee paying schools,schools nutrition programme and the reform of the National Student Financial AidScheme (NSFAS).We convened at the time when, there are mushrooming political parties on the doorsteps of the forthcoming elections in 2014, reflecting a trend of growing politicalopportunism. Among the founders of some of these parties, are corrupt andconsumerist elements who seek to achieve nothing other than personalaggrandisement and recovery from a variety of crimes including tax evasion andunexplained wealth accumulation. These, and other existing opposition parties,coalesce around attacks over the African National Congress (ANC), the SACP andthe alliance these primary political formations of our liberation movement have withCOSATU.Internationally, there are a number of significant and interesting developments,among others the forthcoming elections in Zimbabweand Swaziland, next month. Growth in China has slowed down to successive singledigits, among others affecting economies such as ours which are still largely reliantYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 4 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013on export of raw materials that are processed in other countries into finished, highvalue added manufactures.Reaffirming our dedication towards the national democratic revolution in its historicalconnection with socialism, we therefore declare our fifteen-point minimumprogramme arising out of our deliberations, as thus.1. As part of the measures to confront youth unemployment and skills deficit, weshall engage with the government to adopt compulsory skills development targetsfor apprenticeships, leanerships, internships and experiential training for theyouth, binding on both the public and private sectors.2. The private sector has evaded responsibility in both the National Skills Accordand the Youth Employment Accord. This must come to an end as a matter ofurgency. We shall embark on mass mobilisation to confront the private sector toexert pressure for skills development targets of at least three apprenticeships forevery artisan, three internships and experiential trainees for every technician andengineer and all other professions; if need be we shall take radical measures thataffect production.3. legal intentions against the new SETA grant regulations; we shall couple this withmass mobilisation to expose BUSA for what it is, an association of the greedyand the exploiters.4. We shall mobilise for the implementation of the youth employment targets asenshrined in the Youth Employment Accord, and the expansion of these targetswith special focus on the private sector which, again, has by and large avertedresponsibility on youth employment targets in the accord5. We will engage with the government and progressive social forces for thecentralisation of the NSFAS and for the fast tracking of the establishment of theCentral Applications System for universities. We will defend this noble objectivesagainst negative forces whose ideology and vested interests in the highereducation sector serve to retard and derail transformation.6. We will engage with the government to establish provincial offices of the HigherEducation and Training Department in order to improve effective interaction withstakeholders, in particular students and communities.7. We will engage with the government about the challenges in the basic educationsector including the finalisation and public release of the norms and standards forschools which we believe must reflect the best model that the national democraticrevolution seeks to achieve.8. We shall intensify our Joe Slovo Right to Learn Campaign which has become astanding campaign to expand access to education, transform curriculum andimprove the quality and outcomes of learning and teaching.9. We shall continue to engage in the discourse of policy development, amongothers on policies such as the National Development Plan (NDP), New GrowthPath, Industrial Policy Action Plan and the Infrastructure DevelopmentProgramme. We shall advance the last SACP Central Committee resolutionswhich we endorsed in relation to the NDP. Similarly, we shall advance andenhance the recommendations in our discussion document in relation to theNDP, including the need to industrialise our economy, to de-tenderise the stateand the provision of social services, among others scholar transport.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 5 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 201310. We shall campaign for an overarching strategy and long term vision on youthdevelopment, as we believe this is one of the areas where the NDP lacking. TheNational Youth Development Agency must engage in fresh, and this timemeaningful, consultation with young people aimed at developing an IntegratedYouth Development Strategy and reviewing the National Youth Policy which termof office is coming to an end.11. We amended our constitution to increase the minimum quota for females from30% to 40% in all our structures and decision making bodies, coupled with aleague building resolution to embark on a qualitative programme of changetowards achieving a quantitative target of gender balance.12. We shall intensify mass recruitment, organisational expansion through thelaunching of new branches coupled with a thoroughgoing political education andideological training, paying a particular attention on colleges and universitieswhich we regard as part of the key sites of struggle and the battle of ideas as it iswith other centres of knowledge production.13. It is part and parcel of our duty to build the PYA strong, and as thus contributemeaningfully towards the rebuilding of the ANCYL. The best suited of allcontributions requires all Young Communists to join the ANCYL, and in their ownright as its members to take active involvement in defending the organisation andcarrying forward its historic mission as entrusted by the ANC. Other contributionsshall be left to bilateral relations to define as well as joint programmes with theANCYL.14. We shall in the forthcoming elections campaign for an overwhelming victory forthe ANC as the leading formation of our liberation movement and alliance, and asour own organisation in our own right as its members. We will engage with ourmovement to ensure that the election campaign towards the youth is adequatelyresourced and that youth presence in the list of public representatives isenhanced in recognition of the realignments that have occurred in the politicallandscape of youth politics.15. We encourage the working class of Zimbabwe and the youth, in particular thosewho are in South Africa to participate in the forthcoming Zimbabwean elections.We shall strengthen the Swaziland Solidarity Network, intensify the campaign forthe release of Amos Mbedzi, unbanning of political parties in Swaziland anddemocratisation in that country. We shall adopt Israel apartheid week and usethis as a platform to intensify international solidarity for the freedom of thePalestinians. We will build a left youth movement in the continent, aimed atachieving complete decolonisation and the mainstreaming of youth developmentin the African democratic revolution as a basis of an advance towards socialism.We will intensify our work in the world youth anti-imperialist movement.These measures are about deepening, advancing and taking responsibility for thenational democratic revolution in line with our immediate principal task as theCommunists, i.e. to fight for the achievement of the immediate aims and theenforcement of the momentary interests of the working class. As a youth formationwe shall without being sectarian maintain and develop our focus on the youth,comprising among others of young workers and professionals, the unemployedyouth and students.Aware that until capitalism is defeated there can be no sustainable solution, andrecognising the national democratic revolution as the shortest route to socialism inYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 6 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013our specific conditions, the measures in our minimum programme shall be coupledwith another principal task of the Communists, which is to take care for the future ofthe working class, i.e. communism to which socialism is a transitional strategic andnecessary path.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 7 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013Resolutions1. Economic Transformation and Development1.1. National Development Plan1.1.1. Notinga. The calls and mobilisation for the total rejection of the National DevelopmentPlan (NDP). Some of the totalitarian rejectionist stances come from withinour broader movement inclusive of the trade unions. These stances areoften supported by ultra-left and populist organisations that are staunchlyanti-ANC, anti-alliance and anti-ANC led government.b. On the contrary, there are calls and mobilisation for the NDP to beembraced in its entirety. Some of the totalitarian embracers come fromwithin our broader movement inclusive of the ANC, and are often supportedby liberal organisations that are staunchly anti-ANC, anti-alliance and anti-ANC led government.c. Neither of the two contradictory totalitarian attitudes towards the NDPrepresents the way forward.d. The view in particular from some of the rd National Conference(Mangaung, 2012) resolutions that the NDP is a living and dynamicdocument that is not cast in stone and therefore needs continuedengagement.e. There on theNDP, i.e. in one sphere there is a resolution calling for furtherengagements while in another there is a resolution calling for worktowards the implementation; in one sphere there is a resolution callingfor implementation while in another there is a resolution calling for areview (e.g. strengthening of the NDP), etc.f. The admission in the NDP (there are at least two versions of the document)that the NDP is neither complete nor perfect and by implication thereforethat it needs further engagement and work.g. SACP interventio and ourh. The NDP highlights the importance of long range planning notwithstandingthat it is not a long term plan by or in itself, i.e. its range is only up to 2030and its status as a plan is weak while some of its targets for the 2030 rangecould actually be achieved in one Annual Programme of Action or muchearlier than 2030.i. The greatest fault in the NDP, which has its roots in its earlieranalytical diagnostics report, is its lack of a clear-cut class analysis ofthe challenges facing our society and associated driving forces.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 8 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013j. Consequently, the NDP fudges the tasks the South African society is facedwith. This fudging is linked in our view with a miscalculated assumption foreither a real or possible cross-cutting support for the NDP on all fronts fromall walks of life on what is, actually, and on the contrary, impartial proposalstowards a complex of the outcomes of deeper structural class contradictionsand forces which by their very nature are inherent with and give rise toantagonistic and irreconcilable socio-economic and political relations.k. In the process the NDP failed in its economic policy epicentre to give effectto and propel into a forward motion the biasnesson fundamental economic questionsprincipleof maintaining the standpoint of the working class when handling all mattersand policy questions. which clearly states that the ANC must be biased to the working class andthe poor.l. The National Planning Commission (NPC) excluded an overwhelmingmajority of our people through its poor, or lack of proper, or lack ofmeaningful, consultation notwithstanding some consultationactivities the commission conducted through latest technological means ofcommunication. The consultation activities undertaken by the NPC wereelitist and in turn excluded an overwhelming majority of our people who donot have those means of communication or access to them.m. A detailed analysis of the NDP reflects that the NPC left some of thegovernment departments or associated legislative and strategy documentswhen, or if it, consulted accordingly. This is partly revealed by a detailedanalysis of the Mangaung resolutions, examples being resolutions oneconomic transformation and the NDP, and international relations and theNDP.n. The Mangaung resolution on economic transformation and the NDP assertsthe continued relevance of policies such as the New Growth Path (NGP),Industry Policy Action Plan (IPAP) and strategic infrastructure developmentprogramme. In our view, these policies are not taken seriously, or arecontradicted if not given a revisionist interpretation from that of theirfounding theses, or are at all not even referenced in the NDP.o. This reveals one of the failures of the NPC in developing both its earlierdiagnostics and the NDP, i.e. the failure to review progress, assess impactand evaluate the outcomes, and thus determine whether we either need tocontinue and strengthen or discontinue and part ways with the policies (or atleast some) that were adopted in the post-1994 period.p. Instead the NPC asserts through the NDP that one of our key weaknessesin the post-1994 period lies with the failure of the government to implementpolicies. This argument reinforces an incorrect perception that the post-1994policy framework was all sound and in line with the objectives of ourrevolution.q. On the contrary, and without undermining the challenges of implementation,there were policies in the post-1994 period (e.g. Growth, Employment and Redistribution or GEAR, and in the early 2000saggressive liberalisation and de-regulation) which were implemented (andsome dictatorially) but caused more in setbacks (which we are still battlingwith to this day and more likely for a foreseeable period of time) than in abetter life for all.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 9 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013r. Meanwhile, there were un-implementable (i.e. poorly thought) policies suchas the attempted privatisation in the energy (i.e. electricity) sector in the late1990s.s. The Mangaung resolution on international relations, as another example ofthe NPC excluding in its consultation some of the government departmentsor their existing policies/strategies, clearly states that the NDP did not drawlessons from the White Paper on international relations and cooperation.The resolution calls for the NDP to be strengthened, clearly implying, in ourview, that as a result of the NPC not consulting with the White Paper theNDP is weak on international relations and cooperation.t. The structural and functional weaknesses of the NPC highlight theimportance of building and developing a different, organic state planningcommission which has institutionalised and structural links with governmentdepartments and lower spheres as well as such other state agencies in sofar as it is necessary.1.1.2. Further notinga. The NDP does not provide a clear and coherent vision, a strategy or plan onhow to deal with youth development and the many challenges facing youngpeople, its proposals on what it calls a youth lens notwithstanding.b. The NDP does not resonate with the Youth Employment Accord whichrepresents the basis for a progressive advance in that the NDP ispropagating:i. a subsidy to the placement dominated bylabour brokers whereas as the YCLSA we are opposed to labourbrokers;ii. tax incentives for employers to reduce the so-called cost for hiringnew labour market entrants (i.e. a code for the youth or youngpeople) this could be the youth wage subsidy we areiii.fundamentally opposed to as the YCLSA;a some sort of a two- or multi-tier labour market based on low wagesfor the youth (i.e. coded as new labour market entrants which weare opposed to because of its potential to deepen exploitation.c. By placing growth as the leading economic policy objective from which othereconomic and social and therefore byembracing the failed neoliberal trickledown policy mantra on growth the NDPdoes not fit in with but directly contradicts the primary thesis of the NewGrowth Path (NGP). The NGP places employment creation and decent workon the leading edge in relation to growth.d. The NDP makes no reference to and essentially undermines the IndustrialPolicy Action Plan (IPAP) or industrialisation. For instance the NDP favoursthe domestic oriented sectors. In turn the NDP does not link these sectors tomanufacturing or industrialisation (e.g. there are equipment, tools andmaterials used during the productive activity in the domestic orientedsectors; the NDP does not think about the manufacture of these means ofproduction).e. The economic policy epicentre of the NDP is not in line with both thelatest consensus of a radical second phase of transition, neither does itreflect any new content to shift away from, by taking advantage of the spaceYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 10 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013that has been opened by the present global economic crisis that was causedby, neoliberal policy prescriptions. Based at least on this ground the NDP, inparticular its economic epicentre therefore needs to be reviewed.f. I consensus of a radical second phase of transition.g. A menu of several objectives and targets relating to the youth in what theNDP calls a youth lenswhich in our view was more likely developed as anafterthought arising out of browsing the NDP once it was completed.1.1.3. Thus resolveda. We endorse and shall advance the broad thrust of the recommendations inthe SACP intervention , and ourdiscussion document National Development Planb. We must use this process and site of struggle (i.e. national developmentplanning) to turn chief attention in development policy towards defining the transition with which development policy must be realigned.c. Basically, the second phase of our transition must be characterised not onlyby a radical, but also by a revolutionary advance in the pursuit of thecompletion of the national democratic revolution. It must:i. rollback the compromises of our first phase of transition and gobeyond them;ii. eliminate the triple legacy of colonial, apartheid and patriarchal socioeconomicand political relations of production and in their steadestablish and develop new once at least in line with the FreedomCharter;iii.iv.help us achieve an advance towards freedom from imperialism;rollback neoliberalism from our macroeconomic policy and moveforward on the basis of new macroeconomic policy fundamentalsaimed at supporting industrialisation and expanding access toproductive work to the millions of the unemployment and the poor.d. What we want the national democratic revolution and the struggle forsocialism in their interconnection to achieve in particular in the sphere of theeconomy, in terms of ownership and control, are, at least,i. the restoration of the wealth of our land and labour back in the handsof the people as a whole, majority of whom is the working classii.an advance towards the realisation of socialisation and thereplacement of the existing despotic market control and dominancewith democratic control and accountability.e. We must therefore build an economy that is characterised by the prevalenceof an effective and thriving public sector with socialised ownership andcontrol emerging as a leading form of economic organisation. This must findprofound expression in the policy content of the second phase of ourtransition.f. Accordingly, we must intensify our struggle and embark on a decisive pathto de-tenderise the state, build an efficient, effective and capable democraticdevelopmental state with the capacity to deliver public goods and socialservices. This must at least involve:YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 11 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013i. the in-sourcing back in the public service of all strategic functions thathave been outsourced (e.g. the development and maintenance ofpublic infrastructure, roads, schools, clinics, hospitals, etc.; thedelivery of books and learning materials, scholar transport, thedelivery of social services; etc.);ii.further development and expansion of the public enterprises sectorcoupled with a vibrant co-operatives sector as a supply base wherethe state does not directly produce the goods and services requiredfor public delivery.g. As an integral part of the Communist Party, our engagement in this process(i.e. national development planning) of the national democratic revolutionmust be guided by its connection with our vision of socialism in itsinterconnection with the ultimate goal of communism, and therefore ourstrategic slogan of must provide central guidance.h. Our struggle must therefore streamline a fight to achieve the strategicobjective of winning control over productive forces from the capitalists and atthe highest level from their system of imperialism and its latest forms ofmanifestations. Our goal must be to free, release and develop productiveforces as rapidly as possible in order to advance towards complete politicalliberation and socio-economic emancipation.i. The YCLSA must fight for the development, expansion and diversification ofour productive capacity. In particular we must build, develop, expand anddiversify manufacturing and vigorously advance and deepen thebeneficiation of our primary, natural and mineral resources. In terms of skillsand knowledge base, this would require the development of adequateintellectual capacity, on a technical basis at least artisans, technicians,engineers and scientists.j. We must therefore press for upgrading from strategies concerned with mereinvolvement in execution (i.e. manual labour process) which is often linkedwith the recruitment of and strategies to attract foreign direct investmentwithout repositioning our economy to be involved in conception (i.e. processand product Research & Development). Instead we must shift the characterof our economic activity towards a combination of more involvement in bothmanufacturing labour process and Research and Development for productsand production processes.k. The YCLSA must therefore campaign for increased resources to beallocated to post-graduate studies, Research and Development, and therebyreposition our economy to participate in process and product inventions,discoveries, designs, innovations and in breaking new grounds. This shouldcontribute in altering property relations and must involve pressure oninvestments to increase resources towards Research and Development aswell as associated skills transfer and knowledge imparting on all functionsand layers of the production process as a whole.l. We must link the service sectors where manufactured products, tools andequipment are used with localisation through manufacturing as part of ourstrategies to develop our productive capacity, advance and diversifymanufacturing towards high value added products and industrialisation.m. Pressing for our economy to advance and diversify in the field ofmanufacturing must not mean that our economy should take a back seat onother productive activities. Therefore we must press for the broadening andYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 12 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013support for other strategic areas beyond both manufacturing and the existingIndustrial Policy Action Plan.n. The proposals discussed in the Party for the role of the state and itsintervention and involvement in the economy, including but not limited tostate ownership, control including regulation in the mining, energy andfinancial sectors must be enhanced, find profound expression in nationaldevelopment planning and implemented decisively.o. The YCLSA must take active involvement in the Party-led Financial SectorCampaign aimed at achieving transformation in the financial sector. Theobjectives that this campaign seeks to achieve must find profoundexpression in national development planning.p. We must campaign for the adoption and enforcement of local contentrequirements based on a strategic assessment of development objectivesand priorities and the need to attend to the challenges facing our people andtheir participation in economic activity.q. As a youth formation we must, without being sectarian, maintain focus onyouth development within the general framework of a political andideological guidance from the fundamental principles of the Party and itsprogramme. We need to develop ourselves to play a leading role inconfronting the challenges facing young people and mobilising them to seizeavailable opportunities while bringing it to the front on all occasions that abetter life for all is not possible under capitalism but can only be realisedmore progressively under socialism and fully under communism. We musttherefore develop ourselves to become a leading force of young peopleagainst the system of capitalism.r. Our immediate tasks arising out of this National Council must include theadvancement of a long range and far-sighted planning (e.g. Where must oursociety be by the centenary of the Freedom Charter and the 1994democratic breakthrough and what must be done every decade and everyfive years articulated annually through short term Programmes of Action inorder to arrive there successfully?).i. this must integrate youth development;ii.similarly, the review of the National Youth Policy which must beunderway and the development of Integrated Youth DevelopmentStrategy/Plan which the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA)failed to produce in its first term of office must reflect the principle oflong range and far-sighted planning and be realigned with the theoryof the second phase of transition.s. The NYDA must therefore engage in fresh and this time around meaningfulconsultation and develop such an Integrated Youth DevelopmentStrategy/Plan along with the work to review the National Youth Policy.t. W commission which must in our view have structural links with governmentdepartments and lower spheres, and in addition its composition must caterfor youth representation. The planning work of the commission as such mustcover youth development, and thenceforth be carried out in a collaborativemanner with the NYDA.u. We endorse as amended below the following policy interventions andmeasurers from the NDP as broadly resonating with the policy alternativesthat we have been advancing as the YCLSA, and we commit to workYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 13 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013towards achieving their realisation which we believe will contributemeaningfully in youth development.i. A nutrition intervention for pregnant women and young children.ii. Universal access to two years of early childhood development.iii. Improving the school system, including increasing the number ofstudents achieving above 50 percent in literacy and mathematics,increasing learner retention rates to 90 percent and bolsteringteacher training.iv. Strengthening youth service programmes and introduce new,community-based programmes to offer young people life-skillstraining, entrepreneurship (including co-operatives) training andopportunities to participate in community development programmes.v. Strengthening and expanding the number of FET colleges to increasethe participation rate (but the NDP target of 25 percent must bevi.reviewed).Increasing the graduation rate of FET colleges to above 75 percenttowards 100%.vii. Providing full funding assistance covering tuition, books,accommodation and living allowance to students, with initial focus onthe needy while advancing the strategic objective of free qualityeducation.viii. Developing community safety centres to prevent crime and includeyouth in these initiatives.ix. Expanding learnerships, in addition apprenticeships, internships andexperiential training, and make training vouchers directly available tothose who are looking for work.x. Formalising the graduate recruitment scheme for the public service toxi.attract high level skills.Expanding the role of state-owned enterprises in training artisans andtechnical professionals.xii. Making education compulsory up to Grade 12 or equivalent levels invocational education and training.v. We must continue and intensify our struggle for the banning of labourbrokers; the struggle against a two- or multi-tier labour market in favour of asingle employment contract; the struggle against a youth wage subsidy; thestruggle against exploitation in general and strategies that deepenexploitation.w. The resources that were reserved by the National Treasury for its agenda ofa youth wage subsidy must be enhanced and redirected towards investmentin skills development for young people in the form of bursaries andscholarships both in colleges and universities here at home and abroad withfocus on scares and critical skills, apprenticeships, learnerships, internshipsand experiential training.x. We must devote our development policy capacity in developing, elaboratingand articulating a scientific outlook on development. We must study policypropositions using class analysis based on dialectical and historicalmaterialism. When dealing with the way forward in policy development wemust do so first and foremost from the standpoint of our own resolutions andpolicy work.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 14 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013y. Those areas in the NDP that are progressive and fit with the tasks facing thenational democratic revolution must be preserved and redeveloped in linewith the new alliance consensus of a radical second phase of our transitiontowards a complete revolution while those areas that are offline must bediscarded and replaced accordingly; as the YCLSA, we must take a lead indeveloping clarity about all these areas with focus on the youth as we havealready started through our engagements with the NDP and resolutionsarising out of our deliberations in our Second National Council.z. We must consolidate and lead this strategic development planning agendaamong young people in all key sites of struggle and power as we advance,deepen, defend and take responsibility for the national democratic revolutionas the shortest and most suitable route to socialism in the specific conditionsof our society.aa. Instead of the polar opposites of totalitarian rejectionists and embracers ofdevelopment policy:i. we must on the contrary be specific about, and distinguish between,what is fitting with the tasks facing the national democratic revolutionon the one hand and what must be scrapped on the other hand;ii. in line with the character of the Communists as the most advancedand resolute section of the working class we must at all times strive totake a lead and put forward development policy alternatives insteadiii.of waiting to critique state policy propositions;we must as such develop our capacity organisationally to engage inleading policy research and development, advocacy andcampaigning.bb. The YCLSA must engage with, and its cadres in, the Party about theseperspectives as it must be with, and in, all centres of power, including ourbroader movement and the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA).1.2. Tackling Youth Unemployment in South Africa1.2.1. Notinga. That the youth make up the overwhelming majority of the unemployed.b. The Youth Employment Accord.c. That the private sector commitments in the Youth Employment Accord areweak.d. ce onnational development objectives and rollback its dominance.e. A .f. That there are young people who do not have a National/Senior Certificateor equivalent qualification in vocational education and training.g. That there are many young people who do not have access to skills trainingopportunities, apprenticeships, learnerships, internships and experientialtraining, and that this number consists of those who have met academicrequirements in colleges, universities of technology and universities.1.2.2. Believinga. If it persists and remains consistently high youth unemployment representsnot only a socio-economic challenge but also a political threat, and thereforeneeds to be tackled decisively.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 15 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013b. Education, skills training and development are, though not the only strategicobjectives, vital in dealing with youth unemployment.c. If transformed, further developed and diversified the college sector can playa vital role and contribute meaningfully towards skills development andreducing unemployment.1.2.3. We thus resolveda. Our immediate tasks following this National Council must include acampaign directed at the big conglomerates and multinational corporationsas well as the private sector in general. We must lead a mass mobilisationprogramme to the offices of these companies in all sectors of the economyand to the various sector organisations that they belong to. Our demandsmust include the adoption of youth graduate developmentprogrammes and compulsory skills development targets forapprenticeships, learnerships, internships and experiential trainees,covering scarce and critical skills as well as other strategic areas.b. We must campaign for the adoption and enforcement of youth skillsdevelopment targets for the state (i.e. state owned enterprises, entitiesand agencies as well as public institutions)c. We must press for the state to adopt compulsory skills developmenttargets for both the public and private sector.d. We must enforce the youth employment targets that have beenachieved in the Youth Employment Accord and embark on a campaignto expand these targets.e. We must continue with and intensify the mobilisation for students to choosevocational education and training streams and start with these as early asGrade 10. This must be coupled with a drive to achieve the transformation ofthe Further Education and Training (FET) sector into a vibrant VocationalEducation and Training sector which offers cutting edge qualifications.This must therefore involve curriculum transformation anddiversification of education and training programmes to cover the widerange of productive economic activities, scares and critical skills aswell as talent development.f. We must campaign for the reduction in and ultimately the elimination ofthe challenge of the high rate of NEET among young people.g. Amongst others, confronting the challenge of the high rate of NEETincluding:i. a review of assessment policy, particularly the consolidation of a newpolicy direction that allows for second chances in the schoolingsystem;ii. this must be coupled with a campaign to achieve full developmentand adequate resourcing of ABET and Community centres;iii. the capacity of ABET and Community centres must be developed andiv.enhanced to serve the needs of skills development for young people;the state must commission research into and deal with the causesand drivers of the challenge of a persisting dropout rate in schools,colleges and universities.h. The NYDA must be adequately resourced to boost its capacity on dealingwith youth unemployment. The NYDA must be accessible, and the YCLSAmust impact meaningfully on the NYDA and its legislative development andYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 16 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013provide it proper direction. This should involve engagement with theProgressive Youth Alliance (PYA).i. The structure of our economy needs to be fundamentally restructured andtransformed in order to deal with the challenge of a persisting high rate ofunemployment which affects mostly young people. Amongst others, thiswould require the elimination and inverting of the semi-colonial legacy whichis partly characterised by more reliance on the export of raw materials andprimary goods coupled with varyingly undeveloped, under- and leastdevelopedmanufacturing and excessive reliance on the import of high valueadded manufactured products.j. The discussion on the retirement age must be revived with a detailedassessment and evaluation of both advantages and disadvantages of earlyand late retirement vis-à-vis youth un/employment and the conditions ofearly retirees.1.3. Cooperatives1.3.1. Noting:a. Cooperatives are a site of fighting youth unemployment on the ground andhave the potential of meaningfully contributing in transforming the socialrelations of production, including ownership and control, and dealing withinequality and poverty.1.3.2. Therefore resolveda. Sufficient funding, support, capacity building and preferential treatment,including but not limited to constant legislative and regulatory review mustbe pursued to advance cooperatives development. This must incorporate adedicated focus on youth cooperatives.b. Each YCLSA province and district must mobilise, develop capacity andsupport young people to establish sustainable cooperatives by takingadvantage of the opportunities that exist in the respective provinces andmunicipalities as well as in response to their challenges.c. The YCLSA must develop and provide guidance to the youth cooperativemovement, including consolidating the apex body of youth cooperatives,work with and lead it towards developing a vibrant youth cooperative sector.d. The YCLSA must become a leading political force and voice for youthcooperatives, and thus nationally mobilise and build the capacity of youngpeople to form sustainable cooperatives.e. As part of building the capacity of the YCLSA on cooperatives the NationalCommittee should consider establishing a dedicated cooperativesdevelopment unit for youth cooperatives modelled around Tora TamanaCooperatives Centre.f. We must ensure that government departments and lower spheres andrelated agencies including the NYDA each have a sound programme of andcapacity including dedicated directorates if necessary and viable fordeveloping and sustaining cooperatives with youth cooperatives as integralpart.g. The YCLSA must campaign for systematic cooperative capacity building andtraining through colleges and universities as well as short courses,workshops and seminars.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 17 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 20131.4. The mining sector1.4.1. We note that:a. The current regime of ownership and control in the mining sector, labourexploitation by capital, the extraction and export of our mineral resources asraw materials instead of local beneficiation, environmental and socialdegradation, are all not sustainable.1.4.2. Believing that:a. If left uninterrupted, untransformed and therefore to go on as it is the currentmining regime is inevitably leading to a cul-de-sac where South Africa wouldhave been hollowed out and ruined of its mineral resources that would bedepleted without any sustainable development already there are areas inthe former mining capital of Johannesburg that are characterised by manyruins that reflect depleted mineral resources, holes and acid contaminatedwater without any accountability by the mining companies that caused theproblems.1.4.3. We therefore resolveda. Mining houses must contribute towards development in mining areas and beheld accountable for environmental and social degradation (which must bereversed).b. We support increased role of the state in the mining sector, throughlegislative and regulatory interventions, direct ownership and control and, tothis end, the state must expedite the process of consolidating and propellingthe operation of a state owned mining enterprise. In our view, new mininglicenses must be channelled towards the state owned mining enterprise aspart of the strategies to roll back the entrenched private interests in themining sector and to return back the wealth of our country back to thepeople as a whole.c. The mining licence framework must be reviewed to maximise public benefitfrom our mineral resources as opposed to the dominant regime of privatecapital accumulation. This must include but not limited to:i. the erection and development of new structures of royalties andprogressive taxation;ii. review of mining licenses to give effect to beneficiation as opposed tothe currently dominant trend involving the extraction and export of ourmineral resources as raw materials.h. The mining sector must be streamlined to benefit cooperatives.1.5. Land Question1.5.1. Notinga. The centenary of the 1913 Native Land Act which legislatively expropriatedour people of their land and paved way to further violent expropriationsagainst them.b. Unless the land question is settled our revolution would not achieve one ofits fundamental objectives of restoring the wealth of our land back to thepeople as a whole.c. Land reform and restitution that culminate in the land handed over back inprivate hands regardless of race will plunge the country into an endlessprocess of unresolved land question.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 18 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 20131.5.2. Therefore resolveda. The state must expedite the process of returning back the land in the hands ofthe people as a whole.b. The YCLSA must campaign for land restitution to be accompanied by supportto the people as stipulated in the Freedom Charter and facilitate both capacitybuilding and training in order to achieve productive land use.c. We must campaign for the abolishing of private ownership of land as a naturalresource in more of less a similar way as we have done with mineralresources. This must be regarded to be the most sustainable form of landrestitution in order to give effect to the principle that South Africa belongs to allwho live in it.d. Therefore we must campaign for a shift away from the private-to-privatehands land redistribution regardless of race.e. Coupled with the above the democratic developmental and socialist statessuccessively as the custodians of the people must apportion and regulateproductive land use.f. Land must not be apportioned to the hands that do not use it productively, andthe democratic developmental and socialist states in their successive ordermust guide land use by among others defining appropriate developmentpriorities.g. The YCLSA must campaign for the amendment of the Constitution of theRepublic of South Africa to abolish all barriers to land restitution and and market based models.h. Ultimately, land must be appropriated without compensation as and when itbecomes necessary in the interest of the people as a whole.2. The 2014 General Elections, Progressive Youth Alliance, the Party andState Power2.1. Notinga. The South African population is significantly made up by the youth.b. More and more youth vote is becoming fiercely contested, resulting in allsorts of manoeuvres by negative forces to capture young people politically,ideologically and de-educate them about the South African history and theirrole in it.c. Reformist notions such as the so-called born-frees, the opposition and anessentially racist liberal agenda aimed at delegitimising apportionment ofblame for the many economic, social and political ills that the South Africansociety is faced with as an outcome of historical realities might prevail if leftunchallenged.d. The political landscape has for some times been restructuring through avariety of strategies and tactics, involving but not limited to:i. some opposition parties placing young people within their leadershipranks (in and outside parliament) and fronting them against the ANC andour alliance in a manner that undermines the leadership of ourmovement;ii. the formation of political organisations in which leadership ranks areyoung people who, similarly, behave in a manner that undermines theleadership of our movement.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 19 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 20132.2. Believing that:a. The task of politically and otherwise tackling the young people in oppositionparties or organisations and responding to their attacks against theleadership and programmes of our movement is best suited to the YCLSA,the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) and its independent formations.b. The task as such must be carried out in ways that are consistent andcharacteristic of engagements between young people while steeled inrevolutionary content, and therefore cannot be left to the ANC, SACP andthe alliance as if they were youth formations or they were without aprogressive youth movement.2.3. Resolveda. particular the electoral platform of a unified ANC-led alliance as the mostsuited strategy for a revolutionary National Liberation Movement i in thespecific conditions of our country in contrast to a separatist, disuniting andfragmenting approach which can only unravel not only the unity of ourshared electoral base but also the prospects of success in the pursuit of ashared perspective of a national democratic revolution.b. The YCLSA must strengthen and unite the PYA and its individual formationsorganisationally, ideologically and politically, into a leading force of youngpeople, and orientate it towards defending our movement, its programme ofthe national democratic revolution and the leadership when they come underattack from.c. In particular, the YCLSA must engage with the ANC Youth League (ANCYL)and its cadres in their own right as ANCYL members must actively getinvolved in a process that is underway to rebuild the ANCYL organisationallyand politically and calibrate it as an integral part of the ANC following theturmoil it has experienced from a wave of demagoguery that was correctlyalthough not yet completely deflated.d. It is necessary that destructive and disruptive political and sub-culturalwaves such as demagoguery are deflated completely in our movement andcombated in the rest of our society. Similarly, the YCLSA must take a leadamong the youth in confronting tendencies, sub-cultures and prejudicessuch as the new tendency isikhothane - and left-wing , discrimination and violenceagainst gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals.e. Notions such as -dawnof the transition to democracy in 1994 the struggle is over must beexposed for what they are (i.e. misleading and de-educational). Suchnotions must be fiercely combated. The YCLSA must mobilise andplace emphasis on the fact that our struggle for national liberation andsocio-economic emancipation did not end when political prisonerswere released, exiles returned, the first democratic elections were heldand transition to democracy started but instead continued on anuninterrupted and constant basis in a changing context and willcontinue until the goals of the national democratic revolution and thestruggle for socialism are completely achieved.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 20 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013f. The YCLSA must combine the electoral content in the forthcoming electionswith an intensified ideological and theoretical struggle.g. We must engage with and within our movement for our electoral content (i.e.the manifesto) to include an orientation towards the youth and be responsivetowards the challenges and opportunities that they face.h. We must engage with and within our movement to ensure that resources inthe forthcoming elections are optimised and sufficiently allocated towardsyouth campaigning through the PYA and its independent formations.i. Our electoral content must include:i. a fight against crime and corruption;ii. reaffirm the continued relevance of the other priorities of our alliance,i.e. employment and decent work, education and training, qualityhealth care, and rural development;iii. the resolution of the land question;iv. transformation in property relations.j. We must mobilise the youth in all communities and sectors, includingchurches, and continue to advance a broad unity of progressive anddemocratic forces. We need to integrate exemplary people in sports andperforming arts among others.k. We must refrain in our electoral campaign from making references to thenames of opposition and other hostile parties as this might unwittingly havethe effect of promoting them into awareness where they are not evennoticed. This might be different for areas where those opposition parties aredominant but such reference must be tactically calculated and not openended.l. The first plenary sessions of the Political Commission and the NationalCommittee following this National Council must consolidate our approachand campaign programme towards the forthcoming elections and streamlinea process of engagement with the youth in developing our contribution tom. The YCLSA must campaign for an overwhelming ANC-led electoral victoryin all provinces and all centres of power, including institutions of learningand knowledge production such as research, and work very closely withstudent formations in the PYA the Congress of South African Students(COSAS) and South African Student Congress (SASCO). There must bespecial attention on strategies to reclaim back the Western Cape.n. Young Communists in their independent right as ANC members must be exercising their right to be nominated and elected in the lists of publicrepresentatives. While acknowledging and appreciating the notable progressin relation to the presence of Communist cadres in the cabinet the YCLSAmust advocate for similar and other deployments to include YoungCommunists as part and parcel of developing and recognising the capacityof highly disciplined young people within our movement and preparing themthrough practical involvement as the future leaders of both our movementand society.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 21 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 20133. International context and solidarity3.1. The African Union3.1.1. Noting that:a. The geo-political context of African Union (AU) indicates that mostgovernments are unlikely or may not radically tackle issues that leverage theworking class struggle.3.1.2. Resolved that:a. The YCLSA must conduct an assessment with focus on young people of theextent of working class influence and hegemony in institutions such as theAU, BRICS and other multilateral institutions.b. There is a need to re-define the role of the AU in policy discourse and theunity of African states. The YCLSA must actively build continental left andprogressive and socialist youth movements in the continent as part of takingforward this agenda.c. In particular, the AU must contribute meaningfully in the betterment of theliving conditions of the working class and must become activist in thestruggle against imperialism.3.2. International solidarity3.2.1. Noting that:a. Our international work is not satisfactory.b. There is a tendency among some of our comrades not to take ourinternational work seriously.c. In certain circumstances, albeit few, we are materially not visible in relationto the international work and programmes that the organisation mustundertake.3.2.2. Believing that:a. The YCLSA has a profound role to play in a number of importantinternational aspects and solidarity, for example Swaziland, Palestine,Zimbabwe, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Western Sahara and indeed elsewhere.3.2.3. Resolved3.2.3.1. Political education on international worka. Political education and ideological training must be intensified in respect of as must be the case with all other areas ofYCLSA work.b. Curriculum for YCLSA political education and ideological training musttherefore include international context and solidarity with well-developedtraining materials covering but not limited to the subjects of:i. imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism, its latest forms ofmanifestation and actions;ii. proletariat internationalism and solidarity;iii. an analysis of the international and selected country contexts;YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 22 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013iv.international solidarity campaigning and the actual implementation ofinternational solidarity campaigns as the practical part of thecurriculum.3.2.3.2. Swazilanda. The YCLSA must be involved in ensuring that the Swaziland SolidarityNetwork (SSN) is strengthened and must support its activities.b. Similarly, the YCLSA must work with the Communist Party of Swaziland andengage with it about the organisation of Communist youth and young peoplewho aspire to become Communists.c. We must advocate for a radical programme for democratisation in Swazilandand for the people of Swaziland to determine its content in a democraticmanner, free from national and imperialist dictatorships. This needs to beaccompanied by a conscious effort to raise the level of politicalconsciousness of the toiling masses of the working class and the poor inSwaziland.d. The elections that are scheduled to take place next month, August, do notreflect any content to advance the betterment of working class conditionsbecause they are taking place in an undemocratic environmentcharacterised by the dictatorship of an absolute the monarchy, the arrestand banning of potentially progressive political parties, particularly thosefighting for a genuine democracy. These elections cannot therefore beconsidered to be free, credible and fair.e. A shift of focus involving both analysis and action must be adopted i.e.picketing, marching etc., as well as other necessary actions that can begreater in both magnitude and effect towards achieving democracy.f. Lobby and campaign for the release of Amos Mbedzi who was sentenced to85 years in 2012.g. Explore sanctions, provided this would not have adverse effects on theworking class.3.2.3.3. Palestinea. Adopt Israel Apartheid Week during which our campaign for the freedom ofthe Palestinians and restoration of their land back and the campaign againstapartheid Israel must be intensified.b. Advocate for the speedy and immediate implementation of ANC 2012Mangaung Conference resolution that the AU must investigate Israelracism and persecution of Africans.c. Deepen the campaigns for the boycott, divestment and sanctions againstIsrael and for the banning and excommunication of Israeli goods in SouthAfrica.d. The YCLSA must develop a database of all Israel companies operating inSA and coordinate action against them and their products.3.2.3.4. Zimbabwe3.2.3.4.1. Noting:a. There are elections scheduled to take place next week in Zimbabwe.b. There is evidence suggesting that there is currently elections euphoria.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 23 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 20133.2.3.4.2. Resolved:a. Support the working class in Zimbabwe.b. Encourage Zimbabweans specially the youth in South Africa to go and vote.c. Make a clarion call for the deepening of democracy in Zimbabwe.3.2.3.5. Chinaa. The YCLSA must enhance its knowledge of the conditions of the Chineseworking class through bilateral engagements and research covering amongothers the nature and extent of working class control and ownership ofmeans of production as well as the labour relations system.b. We must undertake a rigorous assessment of the economic role of China invarious African countries and the terms and conditions of its investmentincluding labour relations dynamics.3.3. Against Imperialism3.3.1. Notinga. The fall of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s led tointernational capitalist triumphalism.b. The present conjuncture in the international political economy is dominated byimperialist relations of production.c. South Africa is not immune from imperialist influence and dominantideological offensives including neoliberalism.3.3.2. Resolved:a. The YCLSA must pronounce its disquiet over former South African based-s whichmake business in the country but have relocated their listings and massivecapital elsewhere. These companies need to be disciplined. The YCLSAmust call for a set of measures and intensify the struggle to achieve thisminimum objective.b. Encourage members of the YCLSA to write about and constantly studydevelopments in international affairs.c. The must be cascaded to sub-nationalstructures. We must accordingly establish international commissions in theProvincial Committees.d. We must deploy selected comrades in other countries who, in turn, mustgive feedback on the related situations.e. The YCLSA must spearhead the formation or establishment of YoungCommunist Leagues across the world wherever there is a Communist Party.f. Issues of gender emancipation must be incorporated in our internationalwork and perspectives.g. Organisational Report is noted. The National Committee is entrusted toconsolidate and redefine it from time to time as and when it is necessary.3.4. Proletariat internationalism, the international trade union movement3.4.1. Noting that:a. Imperialist influence has penetrated certain sections of the internationaltrade union movement and uses this penetration to infiltrate trade unionfederations and their affiliates at the national levele.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 24 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013b. In particular instances imperialism has been behind the fragmentation of theinternational trade union movement and the formation of particular globaltrade unions and trade union federations and confederations.c. The World Federations of Trade Unions (WFTU) is consistently antiimperialist.3.4.2. We therefore resolve that:a. We must develop a systematic campaign to encourage the Congress ofSouth African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliates to take a decisiveaction and join the WFTU which is anti-imperialist in character.b. We must work very closely with and take active part in the activities of theWFTU.4. Official inquest into the assassination of comrade Chris Hania. We must intensify our campaign for an official inquest into the assassinationof former SACP General Secretary comrade Chris Hani and thereby makesure that his assassinators do not only rod in jail but the whole truth thataccording to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has not beendisclosed is set free and disclosed.b. Other people who were involved in the assassination of Chris Hani must bebrought to book.5. Education and Health5.1. Basic Education5.1.1. Notinga. Education issues are affecting the child of the working class.b. The book on the logo of the YCLSA indicates the centrality of education aspart and parcel of our struggle for national liberation and socio-economicemancipation.c. The importance of promoting the use of public facilities, not least schools,clinics and hospitals coupled with a thoroughgoing programme to achievecontinuous improvement in respect of efficiency, effectiveness and quality.d. A backlog on schools infrastructure partly indicated by instances of thecontinued existence of mud schools.e. The tender system is stifling the development of public infrastructure whichaffects schools infrastructure development and maintenance.f. Progress by Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) inreopening teacher education colleges.g. The existence and rise of a tendency whereby schools and the learning andteaching process are disrupted when there are disputes communities.5.1.2. Resolveda. The YCLSA must initiate structured and periodically articulatedengagements with the Minister of Basic Education. These engagementsmay involve the PYA. At the centre of the agenda must be an analysis andreflections on the state of the basic education system and a collaborativeapproach on dealing with associated challenges and weaknesses.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 25 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013b. As part of the schools infrastructure development programme, norms andstandards for a model school at least:i. there needs to be adequately resourced library and laboratory inevery school for learners;ii. schools must serve as centres for a comprehensive development ofiii.learner potentials and talent;therefore school infrastructure must include sports, arts andrecreational facilities with associated activities properly streamlinedas part of the curriculum.c. YCLSA branches, districts, provinces and National Committee Membersmust adopt schools to work with as part and parcel of the Joe Slovo Right toLearn Campaign. This must include a focus on achieving improvements inthe quality of learning and teaching, learner and teacher performanceoutcomes.d. The department of Public Works must become the custodian of publicschools infrastructure development and maintenance, and these tasks mustnot be tenderised. Similarly, learner transport must be de-tenderised and theprovision and use of alternative transport such as bicycles must be explored.e. Curriculum transformation is a necessary condition for the success of ourbasic education system. This must include:i. transformations in all spheres of curriculum landscape, i.e. thecontent of learning and teaching, strategies of learning and teaching,learning and teaching materials and resources for learning andteaching, quality assurance and forms and strategies of assessment;the nature and character of learning and teaching environment; aspart of this transformation;ii.iii.iv.the YCLSA must campaign for the elimination of the history that wastaught under apartheid and for a correct history, inclusive ofMaterialist Conception of History, to be taught as a compulsorysubject up to Grade 9;the Freedom Chartand respect their people and in addition their health and theenvironment must be integrated in the content of learning andteaching;Additional appointments of qualified and competent personnel in thefields of sports and arts must be explored as part and parcel ofmaking schools development centres of learner potentials and talent.f. The government needs to move faster in reopening teacher colleges ofeducation, and ensure that this is used to build adequate capacity ingateway subjects such as Mathematics, Natural and Life Sciences,Accounting and Technical Subjects as part and parcel of a programme toaddress poor performance in these subjects from the foundation phasevertically upwards in every Grade and Level.g. The YCLSA supports a review of teacher remuneration and should supportefforts to ensure that teachers are adequately paid. Accordingly, the workingconditions of teachers must be reviewed as part of curriculum transformationtowards achieving conducive learning and teaching environment.h. The agenda of decent work must find profound expression in theemployment conditions of educators, administrative and support staff and allworkers in schools.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 26 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013i. There must be continuous capacity building with emphasis on the role ofeducators as public servants and education as both public service and aright that must be cherished and protected.j. The YCLSA must accordingly engage with the progressive teacher unionSouth African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) about upping thestakes in the mobilisation and motivation of teachers to ensure that theteaching process is incrementally productive.k. It is important to strengthen monitoring and evaluation on a constant basis inorder to ensure that intended learning and teaching outcomes live up tostandard.l. Similarly, parents must be seen playing the role expected of them in theeducation of their children including participation in the learning andteaching process.m. The YCLSA must initiate a debate about Mathematics Literacy vis-à-visMathematics in favour of streamlining Mathematics from the foundationphase up to at least Grade 9 and equivalent as a compulsory subject whereafter either Mathematics or Mathematical Literacy may be chosen ifMathematical Literacy is not phased out.n. There must be systematic career guidance of learners in schools to assistthem make informed choices.o. The objects for Life Orientation must be properly spelled out and its contentaccordingly streamlined because this subject runs the risk of becoming awaste of time.p. The role of Schools Governing Bodies (SGBs) needs to be visible andproductive. YCLSA cadres must become more active in SGBs as part of theJoe Slovo Right to Learn Campaign. Corrupt tendencies such as SGBmembers signing blank cheques must be dealt with decisively. SGBs mustbe properly capacitated to carry out the functions expected of them.q. The funding models of public schools, in particular the Quintile System, must progressively deliver universal access to basic education, including asustainable and de-tenderised schools nutrition programme.r. There must be increased attention paid to early childhood development.Accordingly the state must play an increased role in ensuring the availabilityof adequately resourced (both in terms of materials and human resources)and supported child care day centres in communities with increasedinvestment in Grade R. This must contribute meaningfully in building strongfoundation phase in our education system.s. The YCLSA must work with and build the Congress of South AfricanStudents (COSAS) and assist the student formation with capacity buildingand leadership development based on the tasks facing the nationaldemocratic revolution in basic education. This capacity building must includejoint political education and ideological training programmes. The YCLSAmust recruit its members who are in the schools system to join COSAS andto achieve a proper balance between their political responsibilities and theneed to achieve academic excellence which is extremely important for everyleaner.t. The YCLSA must conduct community education and mobilise againstdisruptions of schools, learning and teaching, and actively drive the JoeSlovo Right to Learn Campaign towards ensuring that all children of aYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 27 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013school going age are in education or training. This must contributeNEET).u. The Joe Slovo Right to Learn Campaign must be intensified as one of thestanding, all year round programmes of the YCLSA with its objective (e.g.closing liquor outlets that are next to schools, ensuring that communitiesbecome a conducive learning environment, achieving free quality education,improving learning and teaching performance, fighting against financial andacademic exclusion, addressing learner and early childhood pregnancy,fighting crime including alcohol and drug abuse and corruption in education,etc.) radically pursued.5.2. Post-school education and training5.2.1. Notinga. The democratic government has achieved important milestones in respect ofexpanding access to post-school education since 1994 but more sofollowing the 2009 elections although there remains organised andcoordinated resistance to transformation in particular in universities.b. The resistance is partly driven by racist and liberal elements who have foundspace in management structures and councils and some of who are actuallythe remnants of apartheid and are particularly concentrated campuses or 5.2.2. Resolveda. The YCLSA applauds and supports the establishment of an oversightcommittee on transformation in South African universities.b. We support and must lead a campaign among the youth aimed at decisivelytackling the use, disuse and abuse of the so-called institutional autonomy asa tendency within universities to derail and block transformation andundermine public accountability.c. In principle the YCLSA supports the central thrust of the recently enactedHigher Education and Training Laws Amendment Act.d. The YCLSA must campaign for the transformation of further education andtraining, the repeal of the concept and its replacement by a vibrantVocational Education and Training characterised by high qualitystandards, expanded and diversified programmes and qualifications toprovide access to productive work and continued student developmentthrough seamless vertical articulation with qualifications offered inuniversities.e. There is no reason in principle why colleges transformed as such cannot beleveraged and offer access to first national diplomas and degrees and ifnecessary through centralised quality assurance and assessment systems.Therefore colleges should as such serve as vehicles to expand and provideaccess to higher qualifications with focus on vocational education andtraining in addition to universities. The YCLSA must therefore campaign forthe realisation of this strategic objective in post-school education andtraining transformation.f. We must build and strengthen YCLSA branches in colleges and universitiesand leverage these institutional branches as a strategic resource.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 28 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013g. Our branches in colleges and universities must transcend conventionalcampus politics by adopting and mobilising students and supporting themacademically to complete their studies with outstanding achievements inrecord time. This will contribute meaningfully in expanding access.h. The YCLSA supports government investment in student accommodation incolleges and universities, and supports an increase in the number ofcolleges and universities. In particular the YCLSA must advocate for at leastone college in every municipality (district level) and the implementation ofi. YCLSA colleges and universities based branches must neither be limited tostudents:i. They must therefore be geared towards attracting into the rank andfile of the organisation young workers found in these institutions andbe responsive to their conditions.ii. These branches must link with other workers, non-academic andacademic and leverage their capacity as a strategic resource iniii.taking forward the activities and programmes of the YCLSA.The YCLSA must build strong programme based relations with theNational Health, Education and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) ingeneral and in particular in regions and campuses in pursuit of theobjectives of the national democratic revolution and the struggle forsocialism in the sphere of post-school education.j. The YCLSA must among others through its branches in colleges anduniversities intensify its campaign for transformation in curriculum to combatbourgeois biased curriculum content and replace it by a curriculum contentk. We must therefore ensure that dialectical and historical materialism isincluded in curriculum content. It is at least in this context that we supportthe efforts by the government to revive the centrality of social sciences andtherefore to establish the social sciences institute. Those who are opposedto this direction must not only find themselves faced with the government butwith us in particular.l. The YCLSA must continue with its programme of annual universities andcolleges based branches summit to analyse the state of the post-schooleducation system and develop recommendations of a Programme of Action(POA) for consideration by the National Committee.m. The YCLSA must recruit its members in campuses who are students inparticular and other students in general to join and take activist involvementin the South African Student Congress (SASCO) and provide them withideological and political guidance. This must be coupled with a strategicprogramme to build SASCO politically, ideologically and organisationallystronger and mightier as our Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) studentformation in the post-school education system and orientate it towards thebest traditions of our national liberation movement and socio-economicemancipation struggles.n. The YCLSA must campaign for the establishment of the centralisedapplication system to be expedited along with central administration of theNational Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). The YCLSA must push forthe regulation of college and university fees towards standardisation in theYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 29 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013context of a programme to achieve balanced and an even distribution ofresources as well as an advance towards free quality education system.o. Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) Centres and CommunityTraining Centres must be developed and adequately capacitated and wellresourcedin terms of infrastructure, material and qualified human resourcesto serve the needs of out of school youth and must be leveraged as centresfor skills development in conjunction with Sector Education and TrainingAuthorities (SETAs) and colleges.5.3. Health5.3.1. Notingc. Our country has strategic capacity in the field of medicine, but this has beendistorted through privatisation in the health sector, reduced publicinvestment in public health care as a result of policies such as GEAR andHIV/AIDS denialism under the 1996 class project.d. More focus was previously placed on the curative end or the tertiary healthsector (which is good for the capitalists because of the profit motive but badfor public resources as well as the health and wellbeing of our people)instead of the preventive beginning or primary health sector (which is goodfor public resources, the health and wellbeing of our people).e. The result included deteriorating health and wellbeing among our people,massive expenditure for health care for a few coupled with more and moreresources accumulated by the private sector and lack of access tointensive, lifesaving health care in a number of areas.f. at our 2 nd National Council whichamong others exposed the counterrevolutionary character of smoking andits high cost to safety, health and wellbeing among our people.g. Contrary to the claims about the so-called economic contribution, smoking isharmful and together with the way alcohol has penetrated in manycommunities and households and is abused have a high cost to theeconomy.h. Progress and the challenges in particular an attempt of private accumulationcapture facing the National Health Insurance (NHI).5.3.2. Resolved:a. To reaffirm our support for the National Health Insurance (NHI).b. The YCLSA must campaign to ensure that the NHI does not get hijacked byprivate accumulation interests and does not get tenderised in any particularaspect.c. The YCLSA adopts the campaign against smoking as a counterrevolutionarypractice which causes or expedites death in its character as a process andconsumes resources unnecessarily from the national revenue. The YCLSAmust go all out to dissuade young people from smoking, thereby joininghands with the department of health.d. We therefore support the move by the department of health to ban andregulate alcohol advertisement on television, radio and in the mass media.e. The YCLSA must intensify its campaigns to close alcohol outlets that arelocated close to schools and a fight against alcohol and drug abuse.f. Intensify our campaigns for free sanitary towels and circumcision of youngboys.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 30 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013g. To work with progressive trade unions in the health sector, the governmentand other stakeholders in promoting a healthy and safer lifestyle.6. Policy, research and Gender related issues6.1. Policy and research6.1.1. Notinga. With concern the absence of a policy and research unit in the YCLSA butwith relief the efforts since the 19 th Plenary Session of the 3 rd CongressNational Committee to consolidate a policy and research unit.b. We have been struggling on issues of research as we do not have dedicatedresearchers.c. Lack of consolidation and updating of YCLSA policies and guidelines.d. The challenges that were there in the period when the YCLSA was reestablishedhave now evolved.e. With concern the limitation (lack of) we experience in terms of writers tocontest the battle of ideas in the public domain and at all levels.f. The youth remain vulnerable strata in society are the most hard hit by theeffects of capitalist production, such as the high rates of unemployment,substance and alcohol abuse, poverty and inequality.6.1.2. Resolved:a. The move to establish a policy and research unit must be expedited.b. The policy and research unit must carry out the research commissioned bythe National Committee or the Political Commission or NationalCongress/Council or as requested by lower structures. The unit must beable to conduct policy review, monitoring and evaluation and advised theNational Committee or Political Commission through research reports.c. The YCLSA must recruit post graduate students in the relevant field ofresearch and engage them as internships in conjunction with relevant SectorEducation and Training Authorities as part of building the capacity of theresearch and policy unit and endeavour to have full time researcher/s aswell as part of exposing students to practical work experience.d. Fundraising must cover research and policy development.e. In the light of continually changing conditions the YCLSA must alwaysexplore new ways of doing things, innovate and keep pace with the timesand develop new approaches, and the research and policy unit mustcontribute meaningfully in the execution of this task.f. The YCLSA must develop the following policies but not limited to an internalhuman resource policy, sexual harassment policy which must be read outloudly at all congresses and councils of the YCLSA as part of the rules ofproceedings and the conduct expected from delegates and leadership,communication policy, social media policy to regulate all social mediaplatforms opened in the name of the organisation, media policy, finance andfundraising policy.g. The National Committee may determine, unless stated otherwise, whichpolicies must form part of the congresses and councils document packages.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 31 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 20136.2. Gender6.2.1. Notinga. The YCLSA is a Marxist-Leninist youth formation that is pursuing the goal ofa classless society and the elimination of all forms of oppression andexploitation, patriarchy being but one.b. Notwithstanding the achievements of the 1994 democratic breakthrough interms of which women have also benefited from the progress made there isstill lot more to be done as there remains many women, black in general andAfricans in particular, who continue to suffer the triple brunt of patriarchal,class and racial contradictions.c. The capitalist system and the superstructures such as tradition and religionhave contributed immensely in the development and enforcement ofpatriarchy.d. The pace of transformation in gender relations in general and moreparticularly in rural areas is slow.e. With concern the manner in which the state apparatus, namely the judiciary,the police and the prosecution are managing the cases of women and childabuse.f. The Constitutional amendment adopted by this, the 2 nd National Council,raising the minimum quota of female representation in the leadingcommittees and decision making structures of the YCLSA from 30% to 40%,supporting and welcoming it.6.2.2. Resolved:a. The YCLSA must through its Gender Commissions at all levels establishbroader Gender Transformation Forums as campaign structures on gendertransformation issues.b. Political education and ideological training curriculum of the YCLSA mustinclude, as a component part, the building and development of the capacityfor both men and women on gender related issues. Training materials musttherefore be developed and continually updated to that effect.c. We condemn the acts of violence against gays, lesbians, transsexuals andbisexuals as well as all other forms of sexual abuse including rape. TheYCLSA must develop a campaign to confront all forms of sexism and sexualviolence and establish relations with other progressive organisations in theinterest of eliminating these crimes, prejudices and stereotypes.d. The YCLSA is opposed to commoditisation as one of the cornerstones ofthe capitalist mode of production and exploitation, and must thereforecreatively find a way to engage with sex workers about the social relations oftheir activity in order to find an amicable way forward.e. Traditional, customary, religious, legal and other superstructures must beplaced on a negation path of evolution in which they must be rid of allgender-biased practices.f. The YCLSA must fiercely campaign for the realisation of the goals that theEmployment Equity Act (EEA) seek to achieve. More focus must be placedof the designated groups that have least benefited since the promulgation ofthe Act.g. The new minimum quota of 40% of female representation in leadingcommittees and decision making structures of the YCLSA must be coupledwith an intensive qualitative programme of capacity building for both malesYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 32 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013and females in the organisation with the goal of reaching gender balance inboth quantitative and qualitative terms.7. League Building, Finance and Relations with the SACP7.1. League building and SACP-YCLSA relations7.1.1. We note:a. The YCLSA Constitutional amendment adopted in the 3 rd National Congressprovided the organisation a strategic platform to flexibly organise andreorganise the composition and compliment of full time national committeemembers based on the tasks at hand, skills and capacity required.b. The importance of adopting a similar approach and introduce full timeProvincial and District committee members by resolution as part of buildingthe capacity of the organisation to stand up to the tasks at hand.c. A decline in the YCLSA membership partly as a result of a calibrationfollowing our 3 rd National Congress in the run up to which the YCLSAexperienced a tendency in some respects involving mushrooming in thelaunch of new branches and ballooning in the recruitment of new memberswithout induction, political education and ideological training and systematiccadre development for the recruits to appreciate what it means to be, and tobecome, a Communists.d. The above tendency was partly fuelled by contest of YCLSA leadership thatloomed in the run up to the 3 rd National Congress and a spill in thechallenges that were experienced in some of the formations of theProgressive Youth Alliance (PYA) in particular the ANCYL as well asexternal interests that sought to capture the YCLSA and turn it as an internalweapon against the Party in the same way as the ANCYL nationalleadership acted against the ANC in that period.e. That this resulted in certain levels of entryism in our ranks and collaborationby some with external elements from different walks of the political spectrumincluding foreign organisations and some factional elements from the tradeunion movement as well as the new tendency.f. The success of the YCLSA in defending itself in its 3 rd National Congressagainst factional and outside capture and thereby in defending the Party andthe need to consolidate and deepen the programmatic content of thissuccessful defence.g. There is a need to set guidelines on the launch of new branches and therecruitment of new members, in particular the combating of wrongtendencies such as genuine YCLSA branches and members.h. That there is a need to set guidelines on relations with internationalorganisations.i. The need to combine and strike a balance between membership quantitativegrowth (i.e. new branches and recruitment of new members) and qualitativegrowth (i.e. Marxist-Leninist capacity and activist involvement inorganisational, ideological and political activities), and in this context tointensify Operation Khula.j. Marxist-Leninist political education and ideological training aimed atachieving qualitative growth is a guided process and cannot be looselystructured.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 33 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013k. The YCLSA Constitutional amendment adopted by this, 2 nd NationalCouncil, to increase a minimum quota of females in leading committees anddecision making structures from 30% to 40% and the need to consolidateand deepen this as a correct direction and contribution in the transformationof gender relations.l. The rise of a politics of the new tendency, demagoguery and populism in theranks of the political landscape of youth formations or formations that are ledby young people and the large media coverage that these politics have beenand are showered with as opposed to progressive and revolutionary politics.m. The need for the YCLSA to contest the space and time and therefore tobuild its capacity to do so successfully.n. Relations between the SACP and the YCLSA are generally strong.However, in the recent period relations between the YCLSA and the SACPin the Western Cape Province and in the Eastern Cape Province andSkenjana Roji district derailed and drifted from the principles governingSACP-YCLSA relations and in some instances resulted in the authority ofthe higher structures of the YCLSA being undermined.o. A deeper analysis from the surface into the details of the instances wherethe SACP-YCLSA relations derailed and drifted from their governingprinciples reveals that the actual problem is not necessarily with or in theSACP-YCLSA relations, but lies in certain personalities and individualsstifling leadership positions to pursue at least factional and at most personaleconomic interests.p. While the YCLSA has voting rights in every respective SACP congress andcouncil and is therefore directly involved in the nomination and election ofParty leadership at every respective sphere, the Party does not have andhas deliberately not given itself the same right in respect of YCLSAleadership nomination and election.q. The fact that the YCLSA has voting rights in SACP congresses and councilsand the secretaries and chairpersons of the YCLSA are ex-officio membersof the leading organs of the Party at relevant levels gives effect to theYCLSA being involved in the determination of Party policies and resolutions in terms of the SACP this duty is dialectically inherent in its character as avanguard Party from which the YCLSA derives its existence and enjoyspolitical and ideological guidance.r. In addition, the SACP in its Constitution confers to the YCLSA the status ofbeing autonomous, and reserves to the YCLSA the duty to make its owndecisions and shape its own policies and programmes provided these arenot in conflict with the major policies of the Party (this emphasis, or theitalicised, reflects the basic organisational mechanism through which theSACP provides guidance to the YCLSA).s. Other than the above two points the YCLSA derives guidance from theSACP through the Party principles are clearlystipulated in the SACP Constitution.7.1.2. Therefore resolveda. To engage with the SACP for support to the YCLSA for an incrementalapproach on the complement of full time National Committee membersbased on the tasks at hand, skills and capacity required to live up to thepurpose for which the YCLSA was re-established.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 34 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013b. The engagement with the SACP should include an exploration for theYCLSA head office to appoint full time provincial and district organisers andto have at least one member in the Provincial and District committeesserving on a full time basis.c. No YCLSA branch must be launched without first:i. members receiving induction;ii.iii.at least one branch political school;records of both of the above being kept for reference, including ifnecessary consideration during audit processes.d. The National Committee must set up and elaborate a comprehensive set ofguidelines relating to the establishment of new branches and ensuring thatexisting branches are constantly active.e. By the next National Congress the National Committee must draw up apolicy framework or guidelines for the determination of the boundaries ofbranches, taking into account the provisions of SACP constitution relating tothe boundaries of and the Party programme the South African Road toSocialism on branches.f. All members who are newly elected or re-elected or elected by co-option inthe leading committees of the YCLSA must, regardless whether they havebefore, attend and receive induction covering among others:i. the duties, functions, roles and behaviour expected of them as wellas from the respective committees;ii.iii.iv.the existing decisions and resolutions of those and higher leadingcommittees and structures;major YCLSA and SACP policies and their stances on variousquestions as well as Marxist-Leninist principles on discipline andParty organisation;Marxist-Leninist method of inquiry into reality and fundamentaltheoretical tenets.g. The National Committee commission responsible for political education andideological training must develop and constantly update YCLSA inductionand leadership development manuals for presentation by way of a workshopor political school to the National Committee for consideration and adoptionfor use by lower structures.h. Similarly, the commission must develop a comprehensive curriculum forpolitical education and ideological training and leadership development inthe YCLSA and ensure that:i. political education and ideological training are not limited toworkshops, seminars and courses, but combine theory and practiceby way of mass education in the form among others of mobilisingmembers to take active involvement in YCLSA campaigns, politicaland ideological work.i. YCLSA campaigns must find profound expression in action. Increased andstrengthened National Secretariat coordination will therefore be required.j. There must be at least:i. one national and provincial political schools once every six months;ii.one district political school once every three months and one branchpolitical school once every two months.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 35 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013k. The National Committee commission responsible for political education andideological training must streamline curriculum for YCLSA political schools forapproval by the National Committee updated on an annual basis and ensurethat YCLSA political schools are properly coordinated and synchronised.l. responsible for political educationafter consultation with the National Committee must accredit and develop adatabase of accredited presenters and facilitators (i.e. The Commissariat) inYCLSA political education and ideological training activities with lowerstructures through Provincial Committees allowed to recommend presentersand facilitators for accreditation.m. The Commissariat may include:i. current and former SACP Central Committee members, current andformer leaders and members of the SACP at lower levels, providedthey are all invited in the database and to YCLSA political educationand ideological training activities through proper SACP channels andprotocols;ii.based in similar principles relating to proper channels and protocols,YCLSA current and former National Committee members, currentand former leaders and members of the YCLSA at lower levels andoutstanding leaders, members and contributors from the PYA,alliance formations and international Communist or revolutionaryformations.n. To be in the database of the YCLSA Commissariat one must be wellconversant, steeled in and committed to Marxist-Leninist theory, practiceand discipline, or be a revolutionary who is well conversant and steeled inand committed to the national democratic revolution with a proven trackrecord of being a disciplined cadre of the left.o. political education and ideological training after consultation with theNational Committee or after National Committee consultation with the SACPreserves the right to strike a name off the Commissariat database.p. Progressively and ultimately, unless permission is obtained, only those whoare in the Commissariat may be invited to facilitate or make an input orpresentation in YCLSA political education and ideological training activity.q. The YCLSA must develop systematic relations, work with and establish anetwork of its panel of progressive academics as part of building itsorganisational capacity.r. The YCLSA National Committee commission responsible for politicaleducation and ideological training must develop the governing policies andamong others clarify the composition and functions of the governing councilof and after consideration and adoption by the National Committee launchthe Ruth First Institute (RFI) by the end of the first quarter of 2014.s. Without serving as a substitute for internal political education and ideologicaltraining, policy research and development, we endorsed the RFI:i. as an autonomous but integral part of the YCLSA functioning underthe guidance of the National Committee;ii.and entrusted it with the technical functions of facilitating theintellectual development of Young Communists including bydeveloping and offering courses and seminars and establishing suchYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 36 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013other academic relations and collaborations that are in the bestinterests of fulfilling its mandate;iii. to carry out policy research and development based on Marxist-Leninist methods of inquiry into reality;iv. and to contest space with the so-called independent institutions andanalysts as part of the battle of ideas.t. All YCLSA Provinces must:i. at least double their membership by the 4 th National Congress;ii. expand through new branches in areas where the YCLSA does nothave branches;iii. and work towards achieving membership targets of at least 50 000 inbetween National Congresses.u. All YCLSA provinces must establish branches in all public colleges anduniversities by the end of the first quarter 2014 and thenceforth there mustbe no public college or university without an active YCLSA branch.v. There must be constant membership audit every quarter and the process ofmembership cards must be finalised once for all.w. Membership forms and fees must be submitted to branches or districts inthe case of totally new branches and in order to avoid the negative impact ofbank charges the fees must be combined when deposited into a recognisedYCLSA bank account.i. All branches must submit membership forms and proof of payment todistricts and keep their own copies;ii. if necessary, all the fees from branches must be handed over to theirrespective districts which shall in order to avoid the negative impactof bank charges make combined deposits into a recognised YCLSAbank account;iii. the districts shall keep their copies of membership forms and proof ofiv.payment and hand over originals to the provinces;provinces must do likewise and hand over the originals to the headoffice.x. The National Secretariat and the Political Commission must strengthen theirhands and ensure improved coordination of the YCLSA programme andactivities. To this end:i. there must be a four year strategic plan in between nationalcongresses streamlining the implementation of the mandate of theYCLSA and its resolutions;ii.iii.similarly provinces and districts must take their cue from the four yearstrategic plan with provincial and district committees developingstrategic plans for their terms of office;there must be annual Programmes of Action (POA) taking their cuefrom the four year strategic plan and an annual year planner thatfactors in provincial councils, provincial committee meetings, districtcouncils and district committee meetings as well as key activitiessuch as political schools etc.y. The new minimum quota of 40% of female representation in YCLSA leadingcommittees and decision making structures must be buttressed by athoroughgoing qualitative programme to build the capacity of both male andfemale comrades through which the organisation must work towardsachieving the goal of gender balance in both qualitative and quantitativeYCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 37 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013terms. This programme must be intensified and must transcend incommunities and gain hegemony in communities and the society at largethrough YCLSA cadres.z. The tendencies in the SACP-YCLSA relations whereby:i. SACP office bearers or working or executive committees orindividual leader/s in a province or at lower levels decide todissolve or not recognise a YCLSA committee or structure whichis recognised and not dissolved by the YCLSA or take a decision forthe YCLSA and thereby undermine YCLSA higher structuresconstitute a violation of the provisions of the SACP constitutionrelating to SACP-YCLSA relations;ii.and must therefore be decisively tackled through engagements withthe Politburo and if necessary with the Central Committee and mustbe completely eliminated by whatever means necessary unless thepurpose for which the YCLSA was re-established is liquidated.aa. To the extent particular personalities are consistently disrupting the SACP-YCLSA relations and action is finally not taken to bring them to order theYCLSA must address their behaviour politically.bb. The derailing and drifting of SACP-YCLSA relations in the few cases wherethis has happened necessitate that the Central Committee develop theguidelines provided for in the SACP Constitution (Sec. 7) to give play and anenabling effect to the YCLSA making its own decisions and shaping its ownpolicies and programmes which may not be in conflict with the major policiesof the Party. The YCLSA must take the initiative and develop a draftpaper on the guidelines for consideration by the Central Committee.cc. The YCLSA must recruit its members in particular and young people ingeneral from the age of 16 to join and take active involvement in the SACP.The YCLSA must participate and mobilise its members to participate andrally young people in general behind the programmes and activities of theParty and invite the Party to YCLSA activities.7.2. Finance and fundraising7.2.1. Notinga. There are several accounts at lower levels of the organisation which wereclosed due to lack of funds and these accounts were not linked to thenational account.b. The steps that head office has put in place to intervene in sorting out theabove mentioned challenge.c. It is extremely difficult to raise funds for a Communist organisation that isconducting a struggle against the capitalist system of a minority whocommand centralisation of resources.d. A monthly levy system for YCLSA members could be costly as they areexpected to honour their levy commitments in their capacity as SACPmembers7.2.2. Resolveda. The head office intervention to ensure that YCLSA accounts at lower levelsare directly linked to the national account and cannot be closed must beexpedited.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 38 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013b. Following this, the 2 nd National Council, a Fin Com meeting that isaugmented with additional skills must be convened to reflect in detail aboutthe mobilisation of resources and fund raising strategies.c. The YCLSA must build strong branches in colleges and universities andleverage these branches as a strategic source of support for resourcescoupled with decisive action against corruption.d. s, a cooperative bankand a non-exploitative investment vehicle to raise funds must be expedited.e. We must strengthen relations with COSATU and its affiliates and creativelyexplore with them the various forms of support that could be leveragedcreatively to support the YCLSA with resources.f. The YCLSA must engage with the SACP and explore the establishment of amonthly levy system for the YCLSA based on its members who areemployed or deployed, or alternatively explore a new funding or grantformula based on the monthly levies paid by YCLSA members to the SACPin their capacity as SACP members.8. Media and the battle of ideas8.1. Notinga. Most mass media is controlled by private and corrupt white monopolycapital.b. Media ownership in the last nineteen years has had no majortransformation.c. The growth of social media network platforms and the importance of usingthese platforms as an instrument of organising, campaigning andcommunication.d. The negative influence that advertising by big corporations such as tobaccocompanies, breweries, and SMS porn services on TV and cell phones haveon our society, especially young people.e. The serious challenges that engulfed the SABC most notably the board andother levers of operations.f. The funding model of the SABC partly contributes to its lack ofindependence.g. The resolutions of the 13 th Congress of the SACP on the battle of ideas.8.2. Resolveda. To reaffirm the 13 th National Congress Resolutions of the SACP on theBattle of ideas and adopt the broader framework contained in the SouthAfrican Road to Socialism.b. To convene a national media workshop following this National Council totrain comrades and develop a coherent media strategy which must includesetting guidelines on YCLSA social media platforms and regulating theiruse. The guidelines must be presented to National Committee as YCLSApolicy on its social media platforms for consideration and ratification.c. To encourage all YCLSA members to open social network accounts andcontest in the battle of ideas on social media platforms.d. YCLSA provinces and districts must convey perspectives in the battle of ideas by among others printing YCLSA materialand distributing it to lower structures, individual members and young peoplein general including at mass actions and activities.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 39 of 40

Declaration and Resolutions of the 2 nd National Council, FNL, 2528 July 2013e. Our media work must not serve as a substitute of our internal organisationalcommunication processes, and therefore our structures must continueconvening their respective meetings and councils to communicateresolutions taken in higher structures and to receive guidance.f. The YCLSA must work with trade unions organising in the media sector,identify and recruit progressive journalists and establish associatednetworks.g. Lower structures of the YCLSA must communicate on matters within theirjurisdiction and not on matters that fall within the jurisdiction of higherstructures unless duly coordinated to do so by the National Committee inaccordance with the content of the coordination.h. We support the government (Department of Health) in its efforts to ban andregulate alcohol and tobacco advertising, and we will campaign for this banand regulation to be extended to gambling, pornography and genderinsensitive advertisement.i. To intensify political education in all YCLSA structures.j. To support the SACP in campaigning for a shared understanding of the roleof the SABC, to protect and defend the Public Broadcasting Services thatmust serve the interests of our people and promote public participation.k. To reaffirm the resolution of a minimum of 60% public funding for the publicbroadcaster.l. To support government (Department of Higher Education and Training) in itsefforts to introduce the Institute that will protect social sciences studies.End notesiBy the National Liberation Movement (NLM) we refer to an array of forces including MassDemocratic Movement (MDM) and alliance formations, which in our case are organizationally led bythe ANC with the working class in a position of the main motive force.YCLSA/2 nd National Council/25-28 July 2013/Declaration and Resolutions/2013 Policy Documents/ Page 40 of 40