Topic 10

Apartheid and the liberation struggle

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The 1985 founding congress of Cosatu.

“The historical weapon of national liberation can be only the class struggle.”

Leon Trotsky,
Letter to South African Revolutionaries, 1933

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Reading 1: Brief History of the Marxist Workers Tendency (WASP)

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Reading 2: Capitalist Power and ‘White Minority Rule’ (MWT)

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Reading 3: Letter to South African Revolutionaries (Trotsky)

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Reading 4: The Freedom Charter: Blueprint for socialism or for capitalism?, edit (WASP)

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Reading 5: Armed Struggle and Workers Power (MWT)

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Reading 6: Sanctions and Disinvestment (MWT)

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Reading 7: From Slavery to the Smashing of Apartheid, edit (CWI)

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