ABSTRACT
Dear Comrades, [ . . . ] The Party leaders are committing serious mistakes of a Right opportunist
character. The reason for this is the fact that the Party leaders have not yet carried out the 1928 resolution of the CI which demands that the Party take the initiative in and lead the struggle of the natives against the foreign yoke under the slogan ‘Independent Native Republic’. The slogan of an Independent Native Republic means, primarily, the return of the land, to the landless population and those with little land, which is impossible without revolutionary liberation from British imperialism and the organisation of a revolutionary workers’ and peasants’ government on the basis of Soviets. The correctness of this slogan has been doubly confirmed by the desperate attacks of the South African ruling classes against it, by the opposition of former members of the Party known for the chauvinism and opportunism, e.g. Andrews, and especially by the development of the native national movement. The principal feature of the Right opportunist mistakes committed by the Party is the failure to understand the decisive importance of the hegemony of the proletariat and the complete independence of the vanguard of the revolutionary proletariat, the Communist Party, in the nationalist revolutionary movement, and the failure to understand the significance of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the social revolution.
