The Communist Party in South Africa: Racism, Eurocentricity and Moscow, 1921-1950Why is the history of communism in a country at the bottom of the African continent still important enough to warrant this book? South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that still has a strong communist party whose views are not only taken into account by the government, but whose members hold important positions in both the cabinet and in government offices. This is the first account of the history of the Communist Party of South Africa based on archival sources. The initial accounts were written by party members and had very little to do with reality. The months that Mia Roth spent in the newly opened Russian and South African Archives in 1998 and the number of years she spent in writing it, revealed to her not only the racism in the South African party but also the role it played in destroying the ICU, the only genuine African mass movement of that time. Its depiction of the part played by African communists was only a facade. |
Contents
19211931 | |
19321950 | |
Africans in the Communist Party of South Africa | |
The Achievements of the African Activists 19241950 | |
Conclusion | |
Addendum | |
Works Cited | |
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actions activities African members Andre Marty Andrews Papers August Bach Basner black activists Brian Bunting Bunting Papers Bunting's candidates Cape Town Comintern Commission Communist Party Comrade Congress CPSA members CPSA's CPUSA December Eddie Roux Edwin Mofutsanyana elections expelled expulsion formation functionaries Gomas Govan Mbeki Guma Gumede Hirson History Ibid important Inner Party Situation JB Marks Johannesburg Josie Mpama Kotane's KUTV Labour Party leaders League Lionel Forman Maliba March meeting Moscow Moses Kotane National Liberation League Native Affairs Native Republic policy Natives Representative Council November Nzula Padmore Party members Party of South Party secretary passport Political Bureau proletariat racism Report RGASPI Roth Secretary of Native Sidney Bunting Situation in South slogan South Africa South African Communist South African government South African Party South African Question Soviet Union SP Bunting strike Thibedi trade union Trotskyite Umsebenzi united front views white communists white workers Wolton Xuma