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Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers' party The industrialisation of South Africa…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948 The African National…
Appendix - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 The Freedom Charter Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on June…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism After the May 1961 stay-at-home,…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath In the early months of 1960 the PAC…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement During the 1950s Congress activists…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s Writing in Liberation …
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase By 1957 any relative lull…
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The African National Convention must…
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 90 "Hertzog's Native Bill…
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 87 - "Lessons of the All…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew CALL TO A NON-EUROPEAN UNITED FRONT!…
Document 112 - Note from Claremont branch of the National Liberation League of South Africa, 26 March 1938
From:South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew National Liberation League of S.A…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The All-African Convention came into…
Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew At the beginning of October 1936 the…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the mass popular uprising, which had…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of the exiled…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of the Rivonia offensive, coupled with…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The programme of the Fourth…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew PROGRAMME 1.Chairman's Address…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The people of the world are on the…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew 2 000 Protest against Discriminatory…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew For months past, "the Bantu press"…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Party, as an organisation, underwent a number of changes during the exile…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in April 1989, and attended by 49…
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 93 S. B., "Unite Against…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 89 "People's Front and the…
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew In this statement an attempt is made…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris Nineteen-eighteen was a significant…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 - Introduction
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris Private enterprise is one of the…
Enlightened self-interest and the liberal spirit
The paper discusses how by placing together of self-interest and the liberal spirit might not be beneficial to the liberation struggle and…
Draft transcripts Twilight of legality
From the declaration of a national state of Emergency on June 12 1986 onwards, the UDF found itself in a period of twilight legality. This…
Do Judges speak out?
This address was delivered by Judge Richard Goldstone who describes his speech as
The road to peace: resource material on negotiations
ANC booklet on negotiations. Includes theory on negotiations, the Freedom Charter, the Constitutional Guidelines and the Harare Declaration…
Guaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
The 35th lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial Lecture series delivered by Chief Justice M M Corbett in Johannesburg on 7 May…
The Mandela Document
ANC booklet containing the full text of a document presented by Nelson Mandela to P W Botha in July 1989, stating his views on the armed…
What is a constitution?
Booklet published by the African National Congress Constitutional Committee. A discussion document prepared for the Constitutional…
A 70th Birthday Tribute to Oliver Tambo
Booklet to mark Oliver Tambo's 70th birthday. Includes newspaper tributes, messages from friends and family, heads of State and Government,…
SWAPO news and views: fighting for freedom and justice in solidarity
SWAPO news and views: fighting for freedom and justice in solidarity. Book discussing: New year messsage to the Namibia people, Comrade…
Legitimacy and struggle
Chapter addressing the question of violence and non-violence as an issue for churches in South Africa.
Liberalism and the problem of power
The 34th lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Heornle Memorial Lecture series, delivered by Charles Simkins in which he discusses the issues…
Talking with the ANC
Book published by the South African Bureau of Information addressing the question of whether negotiations should be conducted with the…
A distant clap of thunder: Fortieth anniversa
Booklet to commemorate the 1946 Miners Strike: "A distant clap of thunder". Fortieth anniversary of the 1946 mine strike. The booklet gives…
The South African Communist Party: 65 Years in the frontline of struggle
Booklet commemorating 65 years of the SACP, also discussing leaders of the party.
The Kairos document: a theological comment on the political crisis in South Africa
Book containing chapters on The moment of truth; Critique of State Theology; Critique of Church Theology; Towards a Prophetic Theology;…
Federation or desolution
The 33rd lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lecture series delivered by Alan Paton in Johannesburg on 23rd May 1985, in…
United Democratic Front National General Council, 1985
This booklet was done after the National General Council of UDF held on the 6 - 7 April 1985. It contains United Democratic Front…
Torture is part of the system: state violence in South Africa and Namibia
ANC booklet on state violence in South Africa and Namibia.
Relocations: the churches report on forced r
Book containing chapters on: Forced removals and relocation of people in South Africa; A history of dispossession; Bantustans: overseers of…