H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade unionist, and Natal sugar workers made important gains under his leadership in the early 1940s. Naidoo represented a generation of young Indians impatient with the divisions that had up to that time plagued Indian political organisations and prevented... read more
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