The SACP has overtly rejected and opposed the latest wave of xenophobic violence and threats targeting immigrants, warning against the "mutual elimination of workers", and adding that there is no justification for the abuse of any migrant, regardless of their legal status.

Instead of division, the SACP calls for immediate working-class solidarity to confront the systemic failures of the State and a capitalist system.

“We call for peace and not violence or vengeance,” the SACP states. “We need more working-class solidarity and not mutual elimination of workers, not destruction.”

The SACP acknowledges that migration has remained a persistent, cyclical challenge in South Africa, however, the party criticised the State’s “historically weak approach” to handling the issue.

The party accuses government of not producing an all-encompassing policy response to properly manage or understand migration.

It says past State interventions have been “misaligned, unstructured, and inconsistent”, creating a highly distorted view of the crisis's actual gravity.

The SACP says for the average working-class person living in areas with high populations of poor migrants, this policy vacuum means the crisis is predictable.

While the party recognises undocumented immigration as a legitimate political issue, it stresses that proactive, lawful State mechanisms are required to address it, rather than vigilante violence.

The SACP firmly roots the current tensions in a “deep, cross-cutting capitalist crisis” that has resulted in high levels of poverty and unemployment.

According to the party, the friction between local citizens and migrants is a direct manifestation of global capitalism's failure.

It says South Africa’s local economy fails to properly industrialise and claims that the system maintains a “massive reserve army of labour", that pits the poor against each other, while suppressing wages and working conditions.

The SACP warns that the working class, whether migrant or citizen, faces the same severe economic limitations.

“When resources diminish, job opportunities dwindle, and economic prospects vanish, workers are driven into mutual confrontation,” it cautions.

The party emphasises that solely blaming fellow African workers for structural shortcomings serves only the ruling class.

It says turning documented and undocumented workers against each other is a “dangerous distraction from the real enemies of the working class”, such as monopoly capital, systemic corruption, and policies that consistently prioritise corporate profit over human lives.

The SACP proposes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to address this, one that prioritises robust working-class solidarity and rejects any aggression rooted in the dehumanisation of migrants.

Concurrently, it says government must build the capacity to manage migration sustainably, and establish a rigorous labour enforcement system by rapidly expanding the Department of Employment and Labour.