No Woman, No Revolution, Part 5b
A Constitution
Any mass democratic organisation
must have its Constitution. In this course, we are advocating for mass
organisation of women, either as women in general or as working women. Such an
organisation will have to have a constitution.
Rather than enumerate what a
Constitution needs to contain, we here once again follow the rule of the
Communist University, which is to use a real book rather than use a “text
book”.
In this case we use the South
African Communist Party’s Constitution. It is short, and it is complete with
sufficient parts which, suitably adapted, could serve as the model constitution
of many different kinds of organisation, including mass organisations. It is
exemplary in that way.
We can also note that in the
SACP one of the guiding Principles (clause 4.3) is:
“Organise,
educate and lead women within the working class, the poor and rural communities
in pursuit of the aims of the SACP; and to raise the consciousness of the
working class and its allies around the integral and oppressive nature of
gender relations within South African capitalism.”
And also that one-third of
the Central Committee is supposed to be women.
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The above is to
introduce the original reading-text: SACP Constitution, current.
