South African Communist Party

SACP supports the People’s March in Defence of National Sovereignty

Thursday, 19 March 2026: - The South African Communist Party (SACP), as a working class political organisation, is actively cooperating with and is a member of political organisations, community organisations and other social groups that are collectively planning and organising a national march in defence of South Africa’s sovereignty, which is threatened by external forces with the Trump administration leading the US as a primary political force pursuing this agenda.

The SACP hereby endorses and commits its organisational support to the overall objectives of the march.

Details of the People’s March are as follows:

Date:            Saturday, 21 March 2026

Time:           08h00

Venue:         Johannesburg

The march starts at Mary Fitzgerald Square, proceeds through Queen Elizabeth Bridge, to Constitutional Court

About the People’s March

The People’s March in Defence of Sovereignty and Democratic Gains is a mobilisation initiative by progressive organisations to galvanise the South African public against the blatant imperialist imposition of US and Western powers over the country and its people on various critical international and domestic policy issues.

Cooperating and coordinating with the ANC, COSATU, SANCO, various mass democratic movement organisations, independent progressive social movements and other entities in the republic that share our common revulsion at the undermining of South Africa’s sovereignty by western powers, the SACP will mobilise its members and will play a key role in the People’s March.

The defence of South Africa’s right to establish its own policy on any subject deemed necessary in accordance with its laws and regulations is a shared responsibility for all patriots, particularly those committed to a comprehensive transformation of the country and the liberation of all oppressed peoples across the world.

As citizens and activists, we must find common ground and work together to protect our state’s ability to implement policies within our legislative framework, especially those that protect the vulnerable and strengthen solidarity with the oppressed. The right of South Africans to act in this manner is protected by international law and can never be circumvented by any foreign interests in service of objectives in conflict with ours.

The SACP, in this context, understands the march as an activity of the popular classes and progressive forces asserting a clear anti-imperialist position grounded on human solidarity and resistance to all forms of oppression.

The anti-imperialist foundation of this march reflects our conviction that the sovereignty of countries in the global south, including Palestine, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and Western Sahara, cannot be realised solely through formal diplomacy. It must be built on the mobilisation of a conscious citizenry committed to the freedom of all oppressed people beyond the limitations of state bureaucracy.

At the heart of this national action is a conscious working class whose long-term prospects are tied to a progressive and developmental state, not a bourgeois political system that collaborates with imperialism. The SACP joins this march with the vision of a common condemnation of US imperialism, the revival of a vibrant solidarity movement and the consolidation of a sustained anti-imperialist agenda across the country and the continent.

We call on all working-class organisations and all revolutionaries to form part of this activity as it offers an important platform for solidarity. The SACP continues to participate alongside organisations that have joined the common platform of the Peoples March in order to ensure its success.

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FOUNDED IN 1921 AS THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA