The SACP has demanded to be consulted as a full partner of the tripartite alliance instead of ANC decisions being imposed on it.
The SACP also wants to see more of its members deployed in legislatures in a "reconfigured" alliance after 2009's elections.
SACP Secretary-General Blade Nzimande said the party was dissatisfied with the manner in which the alliance has been working.
The issue was the main discussion at the party's policy conference, which ended in Johannesburg on Sunday.
He said the issue would also be brought up this weekend at the Alliance Summit, which the SACP wants regarded as the "political centre".
Nzimande said the SACP wanted its own deployment committee, which would ensure that the deployment of communists in government was not left solely to the ANC.
"(Reconfiguration) includes, but is not limited to, the forging of the alliance as a strategic political centre.
Further to that, we are calling for the establishment of an alliance political council made up of the national office- bearers of the alliance, to oversee broad political issues, governance and deployment issues and joint mass mobilisation.
"It also includes the common alliance deployment strategy because we've had a problem in the past that we all go into an election campaign, but deployment remains solely a matter for the African National Congress.
"The alliance is not a bargaining chamber and we are not going to say we want this or we will walk away.
We believe that in what is the post-Polokwane period, we hope we are going to listen to each other,"said Nzimande.
The SACP wants a "delegated" contingent of elected SACP representatives, who will be directly accountable to the party, to represent "working class interests" in provincial legislatures.
"We need our own SACP deployment and accountability committee as well to look at how and where to deploy those communists and how those communists account to the SACP, which is something that is very important to us.
"We'd really like to see an inclusive style of operation in the alliance.
"We don't want to impose things and we don't want the ANC to impose things on us. This alliance has survived on a particular style of inclusive consultation leadership, and we'd like to be heard because this has been rudely interrupted in the last 10 years leading up to Polokwane", Nzimande said.
The party on Sunday put its weight behind the ANC's election campaign and warned against a "breakaway" party which has been mooted in the wake of Thabo Mbeki's axing from government by the ANC.
"We hope that whoever is considering this, they don't go there.
"All those who've tried to split away from the ANC are practically dead, the PAC and the UDM."
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