Great October Socialist Revolution

1969-1974 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / National Democratic Revolution / National Trade Union Leaders / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Lenin the Liberator: 22 April 1870

Lenin the Liberator: 22 April 1870 On 22 April 1970, the underground organisation of the South African Communist Party – SACP – carried out a nationwide, illegal distribution of educational…

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April 21, 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

1912 – 1943 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism

The Incredible Vladimir Lenin: State and Revolution

The Incredible Vladimir Lenin: State and Revolution “Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on…

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January 21, 2026

1943-1960 / African liberation movement

Joseph Stalin Passes On

Joseph Stalin Passes On On 5 March 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin died of cerebral haemorrhage in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, Soviet…

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March 5, 2025

1912 – 1943 / African liberation movement / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)

Lenin Passes On

On 21 January 1924, Lenin fell into a coma and died later that day. His official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. The…

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January 21, 2025

1510 – 1906 / African liberation movement / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s)

The Berlin Conference and the Carve-up of Africa: Part 2

Ruth Nhere In South Africa In South Africa, the discovery of diamonds and gold in the 1880s was to establish the region as a vital base of imperialist interests. “The…

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December 19, 2024