Conference of the Left commits to rebuilding the organised power of the working class and the poor [SOUND]

# The Conference of the Left adopted a historic declaration committing participating formations to rebuild the organised power of the working class and the poor. The conference brought together political parties, trade unions, student organisations, faith and religious formations, and traditional leadership structures. The South African Communist Party General Secretary, Solly Mapaila, says the conference declared that South Africa is in a deep structural crisis rooted in capitalism, imperialism, monopoly power, patriarchy, racism, austerity, unemployment, inequality, social violence, and ecological destruction: