DUAL POWER AND THE CREATION OF people's committees It is therefore in the light of this that ment in developments? do this by, tionary ed, maps out revolution, ty.
revolutionary • Transforming strong this state government. • Ensuring, areas. • Escalating, of dual power, which ing 'crisis of power' has our analysis of this significance ot this course of First and foremost, this developstudents' OI organs of popular power. Initiative the apartheid development what Lenin in Letters From to:
democratic Now, given the escalation of these apartheid the ANC, and becoming unthe country townships, and finally, which scale.
goes powel, without saying that these embryonic organs of power have to be strengthened, consolidated and developed.
What, then are the immediate and concrete tasks of the vanguard moveproviding leadership and guidance to these new revolutionary The urgent task of the vanguard movement in these new conditions of struggle Is to transform these areas (no-go-areas) into mass revolutionary bases, through which we can realise our strategy of a people's war. We can among other things, creating in these areas local RevoluPeople's Committees, as rallying slogan, and also as organs of self-government and popular power, and also as organs of insurrection.
Slogan Revolutionary People's Committees an appropriate one to meet the revolutionary demands of our times? We believe that these local committees, firstly as a rallying slogan, are not only appropriate, bur revolutionary as well, precisely because they answer the question: What is to be done in those areas where the local organs of aparthied power have been destroyed by the people?
They are not only appropriate, but revolutionary as well, precisely because in those areas where the democratic movement has emerged as the alternative power, where the popular will has been asserted, the consolidation, strengthening and development of this alternative power can only be organis.
created and guided.
It is unthinkable that these forms of alternative power could be organised and guided without a clear strategy that organisation guidance. Any approach which fails to recognise the need to organise, create and guide these forms of alternative Committees will not only be sheer idle Revolutionary People's talk, but will also be noxious to the whole course of the development of our such approach neglects this trend to its own spontaneiThe urgent tasks of these People's Committees is to seek to implement the provisions of the Freedom Charter, by:
• Organising the masses and transforming the no-go areas into strong mass bases provide the ground for the growth and development of our people's army and for the escalation of our people's war.
these areas into mass revolutionary serve as organs of insurrection and selfthrough action, that the expelled and rejected organs of apartheid power do not return to these and spreading to yet unaffected areas, the campaign of making apartheid unworkable and renderthe country ungovernable, This becomes an issue of the utmost importance in the light of the present fluidity (this is objective) of the revolutionary upsurge inside the country, and which has opened vast avenues of poss ibilities. Among other things, there is the likely probability of a sustained nation-wide uprising, with continued boycott upsurges throughout the country.
The creation, consolidation of Revolutionary People's Committees, both as organs of self-government and popular powe and of insurrection, will therefore (and in any eventuality) serve as indicators • How loyal the people are to th ideals, programme leadership of the vanguard movement, organised. they are in the villages, districts, region , therefore, on a nationa The initiative is in our hands! Let us cling to it like grim death.