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The Black Republic Slogan - part 2: the response of the Trotskyists
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The Trotskyists of South Africa, 1932-48
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Baruch Hirson
Biography
… by the oppressive Suppression of Communism Act . Hirson's participation in politics grew. With other South African
Trotskyists
, he became involved in the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) and in 1950 joined the Congress of Democrats (COD) , the white arm of the Congress Alliance, which was led by the ANC. After Sharpeville massacre in 1960,
Trotskyists
around Hirson, organised in a National Committee for Liberation (later called African Resistance Movement, ARM) …
Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
Article
… of the NEUM was conceived within the ranks of the Workers Party of South Africa (WPSA), a small group of Cape Town based
Trotskyists
who stressed the centrality of the land question and the demand for the vote in their programme. In 1935, shortly … of the role of the advanced workers in leading the peasants in their fight for land. In their writings these erstwhile
Trotskyists
never mentioned class divisions in any but the vaguest fashion. They did say that the leaders of the old SAIC had … to strike on the 1st of May and, despite opposition from the ANC, received a fair response. The NEUM stayed aloof The
Trotskyists
never stirred. The WPSA had gone underground by 1939, had closed its journal and channelled its activities …
The 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)
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… THE HISTORY of the South African
Trotskyists
during the 1930s and into the next decade was never made available or discussed with new recruits. There were … about the activities or members of the WIL. **** There was a time when South African adherents of the Left Opposition (
Trotskyists
) were said to have made a substantial impact on the politics of South Africa, and having provided leading cadres … issue that led Frank Glass and then Manuel Lopes to write to the American Trotskyist paper, The Militant . [4] Many were
Trotskyists
only in name. Like others in Europe and elsewhere, they knew little about the platform of the Left Opposition or …
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
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… Black Republic slogan. It was only in the light of Trotsky's reply to the Draft Theses of the WPSA that the South African
Trotskyists
began to lay greater stress on the national character of the revolution. This emphasis later bore fruit in the formation of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) in 1943. This new shift in the
Trotskyists
' thinking led to a close ideological bond between Gomas and his "old enemies". Sinking their temporary … with a 'formulated programme to take up the struggle for the immediate needs and national freedom of the Africans. The
Trotskyists
as well as the militants in the CPSA represented the second trend within the AAC. Gomas, ironically, was to find …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
Article
… unions. The only organisation that in theory remained implacably opposed to any participation in the war effort was the
Trotskyists
- an ultra-left group, composed mainly of Coloured and African intellectuals (mainly teachers) in the Cape. A …
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
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… and the liberation struggle; exposing some of the atrocities committed by the ANC; and articles on the history of the
Trotskyists
in South Africa. Events from surrounding African states were covered as well as internationally. …
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
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… to the traditions of the Revolution and to the workers' movement internationalÂly. By the 1930s (when all surviving "
Trotskyists
" in the prison-camps, with their families down to the age of 12 years, were exterminated in Russia), a gulf of … to the traditions of the Revolution and to the workers' movement internationalÂly. By the 1930s (when all surviving "
Trotskyists
" in the prison-camps, with their families down to the age of 12 years, were exterminated in Russia), a gulf of …
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
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… circles of carping critics. They represented no more serious an alternative for working people than did the armchair "
Trotskyists
" (in fact a million miles removed in ideas and method of Trotsky) of the Non-European Unity Movement. From 1957 …
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