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“Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those who have no safe drinking water. It is about health care, it is about a life of dignity for the old. It is about overcoming the huge divide between urban and rural areas. It is about a decent education for all our people. Socialism is about rolling back the tyranny of the market. As long as the economy is dominated by an unelected, privileged few, the case for socialism will exist.” -Chris Hani Chris Hani assassinated by cowardly white supremacists in 1993 before fair elections were held in South Africa was one of the great leaders of the anti-apartheid movement. Known as Comrade Chris, he had a long history of struggle and served with uMkhonto we Sizwe during the Wankie campaign, an attempt to set up a road into South Africa for MK fighters through the then white-ruled Zimbabwe. At that time merely a Cadre of the MK, Hani stood up to the African National Congress leadership for their corruption and failure to lead the campaign. The angry ANC executive committee expelled him from the congress. However, during the resulting Morogoro conference of the ANC, he was validated and reinstated. His criticisms lead to the severe restructuring of the ANC on the basis of greater internal democracy and he was elected to the CC of the South African Communist Party soon afterwards. Hani’s commitment to struggle for liberation and internationalism mark him as a true giant of the freedom struggle in southern Africa. White supremacists can never silence the results of his life of struggle for black liberation and socialism. 

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Pretoria, South Africa: Picket at the U.S. Embassy against U.S. aggression in the Middle East, January 23, 2020.

Solly Mapaila, South African Communist Party First Deputy General Secretary: "We oppose US imperialism! We oppose US aggression! The entire democratic movement will be organizing mass actions across South Africa until USA withdraws its forces from the Middle East."

Via SACP

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July 18, 1918: Birthday of Comrade Nelson Mandela, political prisoner, communist, and revolutionary fighter against South African apartheid and imperialist white supremacy.

¡Madiba presente!

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December 5, 2013: Death of Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress and first president of post-apartheid South Africa.

Ex-Agent Admits CIA Played Role in Nelson Mandela's 1962 Arrest

On the death anniversary of Nelson Mandela, we recall the CIA's role in locking him up. The U.S. -- which to this day acts like the world's police -- is known for using its power to squash revolutionary movements that might pose a threat.

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Elections, capitalist economics and self-determination in Africa, Part 2

By Abayomi Azikiwe 

The social aspirations of African workers, farmers and youth cannot be fully achieved absent the merging of states, political parties, trade unions, peasant and mass organizations. Although there has been significant economic growth in Africa since the beginning of the present century, the recent period marked by the decline in commodity prices, the drop in currency values and the reemergence of the debt crisis — which enhanced dependency on world capitalism during the post-independence period — could easily overwhelm the continent, stifling its capacity to realize genuine development and regional sovereignty.

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Remembering Ahmed Kathrada, South African anti-apartheid leader

By Abayomi Azikiwe

Funeral services were held March 29 for Ahmed Mohamed “Kathy” Kathrada, a longtime member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress.  He died at the age of 87 after undergoing neurosurgery. Hundreds of family members and friends attended his memorial and paid tribute to the veteran of the decades-long national liberation struggle that brought the ANC to power in 1994.

Although under banning orders for political activities, Kathrada was heavily involved in the formation and early operations of the ANC-SACP military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). In July 1963, after going underground, Kathrada and other other MK leaders were arrested at the Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia during a law-enforcement raid. Mandela had been arrested the year before with the CIA’s assistance and charged with leaving the country illegally. Mandela had traveled from 1961 to 1962 to Ethiopia and Morocco to receive military training. He was caught at a roadblock while posing as a driver for a white family.

In 1964, Kathrada along with Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Dennis Goldberg, Raymond Mhlaba, Elias Motsoaledi and Andrew Mlangeni were tried for treason and found guilty in an apartheid court. Although they faced the death penalty, this racist court sentenced the ANC-SACP leaders to life in prison without parole and hard labor. Mandela, the last to be released, served over 27 years in prison at Robben Island, Pollsmoor and a  Western Cape residence.

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South Africa: Activists hold action in support of Donbass residents

South African Trade Unions Activists have held an action of solidarity with Donbass residents in the fight against Kiev’s aggression in front of Ukraine’s embassy in Pretoria, the Lugansk People’s Republic Trade Unions Federation reports.  

The action was held on the initiative of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU).  

“The action in support of Donbass residents has been taking place in many countries worldwide recently and it was for the first time when such an action took place on the African continent. We sincerely thank our Trade Unions colleges from the Republic of South Africa for their active position and express our hope that they will continue to actively demonstrate solidarity with Donbass Republics’ working people. Such assistance is very important and necessary for us,” highlighted LPR Trade Unions Federation Chairman Oleg Akimov.