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Title: | Builders of the communist party |
Author: | Simons, Jack |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | The African Communist |
Issue: | 107 |
Pages: | 37-48 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | South African Communist Party biographies (form) |
Abstract: | In the world of politics, which embraces the struggle for State power and its control, the historical mission of communists is to accomplish the transition from the capitalist mode of production to socialism. South African communists have an additional task. This is to reconcile the class struggle with the struggle for freedom from white domination, race discrimination and national oppression: in short, to combine radical socialism with national liberation. The first part of the article presents sketches of three revolutionary pioneers, who emigrated to South Africa: David Ivon Jones (1883-1924), William Henry Andrews (1870-1950) and Sidney Percival Bunting (1873-1936). The second part is devoted to three South African born communists: Moses Mauane Kotane (1905-1978), John B. Marks (1903-1972) and Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo (1909-1983). A profile of Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida (1923-1986) was published in: Afr. Communist, No. 106 (1986). Bibliogr. |