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Burkina Faso: Echoes of a Revolution Past by Ernest Harsch, December 22nd, 2014
1 September 2019
Burkina Faso: Echoes of Revolution Past Ernest Harsch discusses the enduring appeal and influence of the revered revolut...
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Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
1 September 2019
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The origins and ...
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From Transformational Leadership to Mafia State? Observations from South Africa’s Two Decades of Democracy by Dr Mzukisi Qobo, 25 November 2014
1 September 2019
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Challenges facing workers and unions: The role of the ANC by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
1 September 2019
Challenges facing workers and unions: The role of the ANC 30 March 2007 Introduction The 52nd National Conference of the...
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Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
1 September 2019
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 76 Commu...
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Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU The formation of a trade uni...
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Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC In 1...
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Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC When the mass movement reco...
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Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers' party The industrialisat...
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Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948 Th...
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Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
1 September 2019
South Africa's issues of governance, a rise in opposition rhetoric, and a president and ANC under fire have all coalesce...
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Appendix - The Freedom Charter
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 The Freedom Charter Adopted at the Congress of the People, ...
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Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism After the May 1961...
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Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath In the early mon...
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Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
1 September 2019
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement During the 1950s ...
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