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BiographyBaruch Hirson
… participation in politics grew. With other South African Trotskyists, he became involved in the Non-European Unity … was led by the ANC. After Sharpeville…
ArchiveThe Trotskyists of South Africa, 1932-48
… The Trotskyists of South Africa, 1932-48 …
ArchiveThe Black Republic Slogan - part 2: the response of the Trotskyists
… The Black Republic Slogan - part 2: the response of the Trotskyists …
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… THE HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next decade was … time when South African adherents of the Left Opposition …
The Communist League of America (Opposition) was one of the first formal Trotskyist M. K., "Fascism in Soufh Africa", Umsebenzi, 13 Janucny, 1934
BiographyR. Daniel
Associated with the trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was known as a Trotskyist in his political leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with the…
BiographyDaniel R Koza
Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and the…
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… to the Draft Theses of the WPSA that the South African Trotskyists began to lay greater stress on the national … Unity Movement (NEUM) in 1943. This new…
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
… committed by the ANC; and articles on the history of the Trotskyists in South Africa. Events from surrounding African …
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… of South Africa (WPSA), a small group of Cape Town based Trotskyists who stressed the centrality of the land question … in their fight for land. In their…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… programme (the Fourth International – Fl) Many of these "Trotskyists" were former Party members who had left or who … by Gomas. In an article in Umsebenzi,…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
Webinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors: Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza The Making of the Trotskyist Tradition in South Africa: A…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
One of the founding figures of Postcolonial Studies, Benita Parry, died after a short illness on 19 January 2020. In a series of brilliant essays written in…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… internationalÂly. By the 1930s (when all surviving "Trotskyists" in the prison-camps, with their families down to … internationalÂly. By the 1930s (when…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… NLL brought him ideologically closer to his 'enemies', the Trotskyists, whose policy of non-collaboration became an …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His middle…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… opposed to any participation in the war effort was the Trotskyists - an ultra-left group, composed mainly of …
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… given to the national struggle. Another element among Trotskyists in Cape Town included Kenneth Abrahams. He later … team. For Kenneth Abrahams, Kenny…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… an alternative for working people than did the armchair "Trotskyists" (in fact a million miles removed in ideas and …
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small political demonstration on the campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench apartheid. Leading political…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… national struggle) and it was no accident that many were Trotskyists or Trotskyist sympathizers. However, a …
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… with Vincent Swart and his wife Lillian Swart, former Trotskyists and NEUM members, who lived outside the black … during the early 1940s, but by the 1950s…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… a necessary preÂcondition for the struggle for socialism. Trotskyists analysed the divided polÂity in terms of the …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… Although some contended Mnguni's group was a front for the Trotskyists, Mnguni claimed his group was independent. A …