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Title:The high cost of living: the Port Elizabeth 'disturbances' of October, 1920
Author:Bloch, Robin
Year:1981
Periodical:Africa Perspective
Issue:19
Pages:39-59
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:rebellions
1920
Abstract:The three years following the end of World War I saw an unprecedented upsurge of popular struggle all over South Africa. On the mines, in the factories, in the streets of the cities and townships the dominated classes expressed their fundamental antagonism towards their class oppressors in various forms: boycotts, strikes, 'riots', demonstrations and anti-pass campaigns. This paper concentrates on one urban struggle: the Port Elizabeth 'disturbances' and shootings of October 1920. It demonstrates the way in which the 'economic' struggles as such of the working class (in alliance with elements of the petty bourgeoisie) inevitably came up against the state. - Bibliogr., notes.
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