Remembering Walter Rodney 46 Year On On 13 June 1980, a 38-year-old prominent Marxist scholar, activist and author, Walter Rodney, was killed by a state-planted bomb in Georgetown, Guyana. His…
People’s Victory at Dien Bien Phu: 7 May 1954 From 13 March to 7 May 1954, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu occurred, resulting in a decisive victory for the…
Apartheid’s ‘Total Strategy’: Arming the Racist State – Part 1 Introduction On 31 March 1977, the apartheid government released a Defence Force White Paper in the House of Assembly, which…
The Imaginative Joseph Stalin: 73 Years On Joseph Stalin passed on this day, 5 March 1953, at the age of 75, after having fallen ill and collapsed three days before.…
Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev? Today marks the 95th birthday of Mikhail Gorbachev, who was born on 2 March 1931, and unfortunately passed on 30 August 2022. Mikhail Gorbachev was a…
Oliver Tambo: War and Peace (Statement of O.R. Tambo, President ANC – SA – to the International Preparatory Committee of the World Parliament of the Peoples for Peace, Sofia, Bulgaria,…
The Bureau of State Security (BOSS) vs. the Anti-Apartheid Struggle On 19 November 1970, the head of the apartheid Bureau of State Security (BOSS), General Hendrik Van Den Bergh, briefly…
Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: The Cold War Resuscitated (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…
Beginning of the MK-Angolan Eastern Front On 22 August 1983, the Chief Representative of the African National Congress (ANC) in Angola, Uriah Mokeba, wrote a second letter to the Head…
The 26th of July Movement The 26th of July Movement was a revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro in Cuba that aimed to overthrow the authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista,…