African Communist, 1959 - 1994
Digital Innovation South Africa
The SACP did not publicly announce its existence until the state of emergency was declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and Langa in 1960. The delay had been due to fears amongst some in the SACP leadership that a premature announcement might prejudice work in the liberation movement as a whole. But growing pressure from the rank and file of the SACP for a more structured system of propagating communist policies led to the publication in October 1959 of The African Communist in cyclostyled quarto form. Under the heading "This Magazine" the journal stated: "This magazine, 'The African Communist', has been started by a group of Marxist-Leninists in Africa, to defend and spread the inspiring and liberating ideas of Communism in our great Continent, and to apply the brilliant scientific method of Marxism to the solution of its problems. It is being produced in conditions of great difficulty and danger. Nevertheless we mean to go on publishing it, because we know that Africa needs Communist thought, as dry and thirsty soil needs rain."
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DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1968 English
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1968 English
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1968 English
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1967 English
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1967 English
Editorial notes: Imperialism, Israel and the Arabs. Editorial notes: The Nigerian tragedy. Editorial notes: Again the Congo. Editorial notes: A worthy Laureate. The sources of economic growth. South African imperialism. …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1967 English
South African Communist Party Central Committee: Statements and resolutions. The Arusha Declaration: Tanzania's new revolution. The Sudanese Communist Party will survive. Fiftieth anniversary of the great October Socialist Revolution. Trade …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1967
Editorial notes: "Confrontation" in southern Africa. Editorial notes: Unconquerable Vietnam. Editorial notes: An insulting statement. Editorial notes: Fifty years of workers' rule. Africa: national and social revolution - a report …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1967 English
Editorial notes: "Confrontation" in southern Africa. Editorial notes: Unconquerable Vietnam. Editorial notes: An insulting statement. Editorial notes: Fifty years of workers' rule. Africa: national and social revolution - a report …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1966 English
Editorial notes: Rebels against the Crown. Crisis in Africa. Bending the colour bar. Showdown in Kenya. Nigeria: shortcomings of military rule. Dear Comrade Fischer. The Soviet Union: travel notes of …