SACP leader Solly Mapaila will host the Conference of the Left at the weekend.
Cosatu said its participation in this week’s South African Communist Party (SACP)-convened Conference of the Left does not mean it supports any political party in their bid to win elections.
The trade union's president Zingiswa Losi, who will be one of the speakers at the event in Boksburg on Friday, said the federation would participate in the event but would retain its neutrality.
The conference has once again highlighted deep-seated differences between the SACP and the ANC, which made it clear through its Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, that it would not attend.
The conference, whose theme is “Building a Left Movement for Working-Class & Popular Power”, will be attended by various leftist political parties and unions.
