Category: Nelson Mandela
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Communist Party of Cuba’s ‘Gramma’ on Nelson Mandela (1985)
There have been a few commentators, such as this, arguing that the role of Castro’s Cuba in the anti-Apartheid struggle had been overlooked in the memorialising after Nelson Mandela’s death last Friday. I had just received a box of the newspaper Gramma, the English language paper of the Communist Party of Cuba, from a retiring…
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Thatcher and the ANC as ‘terrorists’
In the many reflections on the life of Nelson Mandela, several commentators have pointed out that both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan opposed sanctions being placed upon South Africa and that these neo-liberal warriors both regarded Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) as ‘terrorists’. Some of Thatcher’s defenders have questioned this and using this…
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‘African Communist’ on Mandela at the Rivonia Trial
I don’t really have that much to add to numerous pieces about Nelson Mandela, but I thought I would post this from the July 1964 editorial of the SACP’s African Communist journal on the Rivonia Trial and the guilty verdict given to Mandela and his comrades for terror offences. Published in London after the SACP went…
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Thatcher has died. What about Thatcherism?
Margaret Thatcher died today. Her death was bound to be controversial, with many opinions on Thatcher and the legacy of Thatcherism being aired across social media tonight. A number of people on twitter have pointed to Thatcher’s attitude towards the deaths of Bobby Sands, of the crew of the Belgrano, of the victims of Apartheid South…
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23rd anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release
On 11 February, 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from Victor-Verster Prison in Paarl, South Africa. To celebrate the anniversary of this event, let’s sit back and enjoy The Special AKA: On a related note, anyone interested in the campaign to free Nelson Mandela and the Anti-Apartheid Movement should visit this great blog on a…
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