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 January 1962 English
Editorial notes - Towards communism: A view of the future. Forms and methods of struggle in the National Liberation Revolution: violent and non-violent transition. Tropical Africa before the colonialists: a …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1961 English
Editorial notes: On guard for peace. Disarmament and nuclear tests. Editorial notes: The murder of El Helou. Editorial notes: A rotten remnant of colonialism. The economics of neo-colonialism: the new …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1961 English
Editorial notes: The apartheid republic. Fascist Portugal must quit Africa. The talks on Algeria. Two German States and the new Africa. Towards real independence: the policies of the All-African Peoples' …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 May 1961 English
Obituary:Patrice Lumumba. Editorial notes: Khruschov on colonialism. The choice before New Africa. Some thoughts on federation. "Zik" on political illiteracy. Solidarity with South Africa. "Concessions" by the imperialists. Marxist education …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1961 English
Manifesto for colonial freedom. The United Nations: illusions and reality. South West Africa: test case for UNO and Africa. Socialism in Africa. Why you should be a Communist
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1960 English
Editorial: New problems of a continent in revolution. The Congo marches to freedom. Lenin and Africa. The agony of South Africa. Nigerian independence. The United States and Africa
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1959 English
Editorial: The new Africa-capitalist or socialist?. Marxism: the science of change. Uganda: a survey. Problems of the African revolution. The African Communist: List of Contents 1959-1967
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1959 English
Editorial: Avenge the martyrs of Coalbrook!. A historical step forward. How foreign is Communism?. Guinea shows the way forward. Marxism and African liberation