Marxism

1974-1975 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / Biographies and Obituaries / National Democratic Revolution / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Michael “Mick” Harmel: A Revolutionary Thinker, Writer and Strategist

Michael “Mick” Harmel: A Revolutionary Thinker, Writer and Strategist On 18 June 1974, a revolutionary South African anti-imperialist activist, journalist and South African Communist Party (SACP) member Michael “Mick” Harmel…

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June 19, 2026

1964-1967 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Apartheid Police / Armed Struggle / National Democratic Revolution / SA Liberation Struggle / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Bram Fischer: “What I Did Was Right”

Bram Fischer: “What I Did Was Right” Exactly sixty years ago, on 9 May 1966, Abram “Bram” Fischer was sentenced to life imprisonment for his political activities against apartheid and…

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May 9, 2026

1969-1974 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / Pan Africanism

Return to the Source: Remembering Amilcar Cabral

Return to the Source: Remembering Amilcar Cabral “A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive…

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January 20, 2026

1990 – 1994 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / National Democratic Revolution / National Trade Union Leaders / Negotiations / Pan Africanism / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

JOE SLOVO: BEYOND THE STEREOTYPE – THE SACP IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

JOE SLOVO: BEYOND THE STEREOTYPE – THE SACP IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (University of Western Cape Conference to Mark the 70th Anniversary of the SACP, 19 July 1991).…

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January 6, 2026

1990 – 1994 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / National Democratic Revolution / South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Mikhail Gorbachev Resigns Towards Dissolution of the CPSU

Mikhail Gorbachev Resigns Towards Dissolution of the CPSU “If there is one lesson we can derive from all this it is that the organised socialist movement in this country can…

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August 24, 2025

1961-1964 / African liberation movement / Anti-Imperialism / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / Pan Africanism / Quotes of inspiration

Frantz Fanon – Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa

Frantz Fanon – Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa (Extracts from Chapter 6: Conclusion, “The Wretched of the Earth”, 1961) When I search for Man in the technique and the style…

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July 23, 2025

1994 – Beyond / African liberation movement / Biographies and Obituaries / Liberation Arts Culture and Heritage / Pan Africanism

The Incredible Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The Incredible Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined…

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May 31, 2025

1994 – Beyond / Pan Africanism / Quotes of inspiration

The Controversial Ali Mazrui

The Controversial Ali Mazrui Ali Al’amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), was a Kenyan-born American academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies, and North-South…

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February 24, 2025