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1969-1974 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / SA Liberation Struggle / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)

Boycott All SA Racist Sports: UN Special Committee on Apartheid

Boycott All SA Racist Sports: UN Special Committee on Apartheid (Amended version of the Editorial Notes, “S.A. Racialism and World Sport”, The African Communist, No. 42, Third Quarter 1970). On…

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April 14, 2026

1961-1964 / African liberation movement / Pan Africanism / Quotes of inspiration

Patrice Lumumba: A True and Only History of Africa

Patrice Lumumba: A True and Only History of Africa Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wrote these words in a final letter to his…

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March 23, 2026

1943-1960 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism / Biographies and Obituaries / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / Pan Africanism

Independent Ghana at the Forefront of the African Revolution

Independent Ghana at the Forefront of the African Revolution On 6 March 1957, the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana) gained independence from Britain. Ghana became a member of the…

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March 6, 2026

1964-1967 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism / Biographies and Obituaries / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)

Leonid Brezhnev: The World Revolutionary Movement

Leonid Brezhnev: The World Revolutionary Movement After the Second World War, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev served his country and people with edifying devotion first as second Secretary and later First Secretary…

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February 19, 2026

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Cross-Border Raids / FRELIMO / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / Patriotic Front / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Oliver Tambo: Victory is Within Our Grasp

Oliver Tambo: Victory is Within Our Grasp On February 14th, 1982, at Bairro De Liberdade, Maputo, a mass rally was held to Commemorate the January 30, 1981, Matola Massacre, an…

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January 30, 2026

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / National Democratic Revolution / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Culture and the National Struggle

Culture and the National Struggle “The point is that, as (Vladimir Ilyich) Lenin pointed out, in every culture there are to be found progressive elements which can be harnessed to…

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January 29, 2026

1976 – 1978 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism / FRELIMO / Front Line States / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / Pan Africanism

Samora Machel on National Liberation

Samora Machel on National Liberation (Extracted Speech by Samora Machel, “Pretoria is a Cancer”, at the 26th Organisation of African Unity – OAU – Liberation Committee Ordinary Session in Mozambique,…

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January 25, 2026

1976 – 1978 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Biographies and Obituaries / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / Pan Africanism

The Majestic Paul Robeson: An African Anti-Imperialist

The Majestic Paul Robeson: An African Anti-Imperialist The death of Paul Leroy Robeson on 23 January 1976 removed from the world stage not only one of its outstanding cultural figures,…

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January 23, 2026

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / National Democratic Revolution / Quotes of inspiration

Oliver Tambo: Emulate Moshoeshoe

Oliver Tambo: Emulate Moshoeshoe “Today, the voice of Moshoeshoe is calling on us to unite. The enemy is busy trying to set African against African, and black people against one…

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January 8, 2026

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Oliver Tambo: Church and Our Struggle

Oliver Tambo: Church and Our Struggle (Extracts from a Statement by the President of the African National Congress of South Africa, O.R. Tambo, at the World Consultation of the World…

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November 2, 2025