A History of the Left in South Africa: Writings of Baruch Hirson

by Baruch Hirson, Yael Hirson

Overview

Baruch Hirson - historian and political scientist - was a towering figure of the intellectual Left in South Africa for much of the 20th century. Yael Hirson has collected and edited his writings to produce a comprehensive picture which includes the role of trade unions, the Communist Party, Trotyskist groups, aspects of workers's resistance to oppression by the state and big business - so often closely linked - and the vital questions of race, colour and class in the struggle against the apartheid state. This book provides a unique insight into the formative influences which helped to guide the South African resistance movement and will prove an essential reference point to those interested in the early political career of Nelson Mandela.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850434542
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/24/2005
Series:	International Library of African Studies , #15
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Yael Hirson is a historian who had edited her late husband's writings.

Table of Contents

Acronyms and abbreviations - vi
Foreword by Shula Marks - ix
Introduction by Tom Lodge - xiii
Acknowledgements - xx
1. Syndicalists in South Africa: 1907-23 - 1
2. The IWA and the ICU: 1917-20 - 9
3. The general strike of 1922 - 18
4. Entryism and the CPSA: 1923-25 - 44
5. The 1925 Bloemfontein riots: a study in community culture and class-consciousness - 53
6. Tuskegee: the JCENs and the AAC - 65
7. The reorganization of African trade unions in Johannesburg: 1936-42 - 75
8. The early Trotskyist groups in South Africa - 88
9. Spark ant the 'red nun' - 106
10. The black republic slogan: the response of the Trotskyists - 123
11. The defiance campaign, 1952: social struggle or party stratagem? - 134
12. A short history of the NEUM: an insider's view - 156
13. Daniel Koza: a working-class leader - 180
14. A trade union organizer in Durban: M. B. Yengwa, 1943-44
15. A question of class: the writings of Kenneth A Jordaan - 220
16. The dualism of I. B. Tabata - 232
Notes - 237
References - 255
Index - 261