By Dr Masimba Mavaza| In the last few days ZANU PF exhibited a disunited front. Now the Politburo meets to assess the current situation and set policy for the Party’s work in the next period of time.

The party should hold a very productive reconciliation meeting on aligning the work of the comrades in the mass movement to the current situation. Everything is telling us that it’s time to move past the ideology, politics and scattered organisational efforts of the past period. It’s time to rally the revolutionaries to the immediate as well as the long-term tasks. We should shun factionalism and harness our power on campaign. We must stop to personalise the party and show our undying love.
The challenges and opportunities before us today call for Party spirit and unity. There are tasks to be done, it’s time for the revolutionaries to rally as one to accomplish them.

A revolutionary esprit de corps rests both on a common estimate of this moment and the ideology of the revolutionaries.
The strength of the Party signals the beginning of political polarization, and
the social polarisation based on the economic revolution. The ZANU PF is a political party putting forward a class programme to solve the immediate needs of the majority of the Zimbabwean people. It is the vehicle for the development of class identity. We revolutionaries have to be part of building the Party and the country. This is the moment we have been preparing for, when the real fight for a people’s party can begin. What was before historically inevitable is now politically possible. Political polarisation is a necessary and unavoidable stage of the revolution. It’s time for all Party members to focus their energies at pushing this stage through to completion.

This is the first real political struggle the Party has had to take on. Never before have the objective conditions been so favorable for advancing the actual revolutionary movement such a decisive step forward and toward the actual resolution of the economical reorganisation of the country. The factional fights drain power and disorganises the party. We have many who are in the party for money and not for the love of the party. The party should be coming up with plans to roll the wheel of the economy again not rolling the heads of the perceived enemies.
To be sure, this moment holds serious danger as well as hope. If the Zimbabwean people don’t take their future into their own hands and unite around their actual interests, our country is bound to suffer the grip of a cruel and powerful opposition tide.

If the Zimbabwean people are going to be able to resist this danger, the movement is going to have to get off the defensive. There is no way to stop the opposition if only the ambitious fight for their ambition. The unemployed fight only for the unemployed and only the youth fight for the youth and the corrupt fight for the corrupt. To take any effective steps against the opposition the movement has to first take steps toward political unity, that is unity based on party interests and not on factious needs. Not on revenge and not on who has a quick access to the President.

When the opposition fails to unite the party must unite, that unity will unleash a movement that holds the power to overturn this rotten and corrupt economic system. To prevent the thieves from manipulating the Zimbabwean people we must aim everything toward the unity and clarity of interests of our party. The unity of our party calls for the unity of the organisation of revolutionaries unity of purpose and focus, revolutionary and party spirit, unity of ideology. Our ideology is revolutionary, independent and hostile to our enemy. It is developed and deepened by scientific education and revolutionary activity along a strategic line of march. It is our commitment to the aspirations, the ideals and historic mission of our country.  Our ideological convictions are expressed as a commitment to the party, the organisation we collectively built. It is rooted in the ideological outlook of the millions of revolutionaries whose sacrifices have stayed the hand of oppression and reaction and created the possibility for our victory.

It is our ideology that gets us through the difficult times of change and confusion. We need to prepare our party and its members for new tasks and new methods of organization. The conference must set our course in this new stage of social development. It is going to take the whole of the party to change its work and activity to adapt to this new historical moment.
We must also use the disunity in the opposition to stabilise the party ideologically, to hold us together and help guide us in our search for solutions to our political and organisational problems. The party must instill in those in and around us a sense of mission, of what time it is, and that the fate of our country depends on building this organisation, the party. With this ideological foundation we can politicise and educate our members. With this unity of purpose we can adjust our plans and carry out our tasks in the real world. It means taking the next concrete step in building an organisation of revolutionaries.

The first step is taking the social struggles we are working in from local and scattered ones, into a powerful, national, independent political movement. ZANU PF is an organisational Unity of purpose, that fights  for political independence. The second step is preparing and restructuring the party to accomplish our tasks. As we achieve step one, we will have a larger and larger arena in which to educate the Zimbabwean people with an understanding of the revolutionary process. We will grow as we gather the revolutionaries into an organisation inseparably connected to this motion towards political independence.

The revolution needs an ideologically clear and united organisation of revolutionaries that can guide our country along the line of marching towards achievement of its revolutionary goals. Now is the time for the party to rally as one. ZANU PF did unite with ZAPU and together they have become a formidable force. The opposition has failed to unite and that is a blessing from heaven. This demonstration against ourselves must be stopped. Even the thugs in us must be ashamed. The patty must be for the people. We must be united tas this show of lunacy only destroys us.

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