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- At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion made by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- I shall deal also with the part played by the Communist Party.†
*communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- In 1956, 156 leading members of the Congress Alliance, including myself, were arrested on a charge of high treason and charges under the Suppression of Communism Act.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- We were acquitted on all counts, which included a count that the ANC sought to set up a communist state in place of the existing regime.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The Government has always sought to label all its opponents as communists.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- This allegation has been repeated in the present case, but as I will show, the ANC is not, and never has been, a communist organization.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- I was told, of course, and knew that certain of the activities of the Communist Party were carried on there.†
- Another of the allegations made by the State is that the aims and objects of the ANC and the Communist Party are the same.†
- But since the allegation has been made again, I shall deal with it as well as with the relationship between the ANC and the Communist Party and Umkhonto and that party.†
- As far as the Communist Party is concerned, and if I understand its policy correctly, it stands for the establishment of a State based on the principles of Marxism.†
- The ANC, unlike the Communist Party, admitted Africans only as members.†
- The Communist Party's main aim, on the other hand, was to remove the capitalists and to replace them with a working-class government.†
- The Communist Party sought to emphasize class distinctions whilst the ANC seeks to harmonize them.†
- It is true that there has often been close co-operation between the ANC and the Communist Party.†
- Nobody but Hitler would have dared to suggest that such co-operation turned Churchill or Roosevelt into communists or communist tools, or that Britain and America were working to bring about a communist world.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Nobody but Hitler would have dared to suggest that such co-operation turned Churchill or Roosevelt into communists or communist tools, or that Britain and America were working to bring about a communist world.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Nobody but Hitler would have dared to suggest that such co-operation turned Churchill or Roosevelt into communists or communist tools, or that Britain and America were working to bring about a communist world.†
- Shortly after Umkhonto was constituted, I was informed by some of its members that the Communist Party would support Umkhonto, and this then occurred.†
- I believe that communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- I believe that communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Thus communists have played an important role in the freedom struggles fought in countries such as Malaya, Algeria, and Indonesia, yet none of these States today are communist countries.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Thus communists have played an important role in the freedom struggles fought in countries such as Malaya, Algeria, and Indonesia, yet none of these States today are communist countries.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Similarly in the underground resistance movements which sprung up in Europe during the last World War, communists played an important role.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Even General Chiang Kai-Shek, today one of the bitterest enemies of communism, fought together with the communists against the ruling class in the struggle which led to his assumption of power in China in the 1930s.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Even General Chiang Kai-Shek, today one of the bitterest enemies of communism, fought together with the communists against the ruling class in the struggle which led to his assumption of power in China in the 1930s.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- This pattern of co-operation between communists and non-communists has been repeated in the National Liberation Movement of South Africa.†
- This pattern of co-operation between communists and non-communists has been repeated in the National Liberation Movement of South Africa.†
- Prior to the banning of the Communist Party, joint campaigns involving the Communist Party and the Congress movements were accepted practice.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Prior to the banning of the Communist Party, joint campaigns involving the Communist Party and the Congress movements were accepted practice.†
- African communists could, and did, become members of the ANC, and some served on the National, Provincial, and local committees.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Amongst those who served on the National Executive are Albert Nzula, a former Secretary of the Communist Party, Moses Kotane, another former Secretary, and J. B. Marks, a former member of the Central Committee.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- I joined the ANC in 1944, and in my younger days I held the view that the policy of admitting communists to the ANC, and the close co-operation which existed at times on specific issues between the ANC and the Communist Party, would lead to a watering down of the concept of African Nationalism.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- I joined the ANC in 1944, and in my younger days I held the view that the policy of admitting communists to the ANC, and the close co-operation which existed at times on specific issues between the ANC and the Communist Party, would lead to a watering down of the concept of African Nationalism.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- At that stage I was a member of the African National Congress Youth League, and was one of a group which moved for the expulsion of communists from the ANC.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us.†
- Because of this, there are many Africans who, today, tend to equate freedom with communism.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- They are supported in this belief by a legislature which brands all exponents of democratic government and African freedom as communists and bans many of them (who are not communists) under the Suppression of Communism Act.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- They are supported in this belief by a legislature which brands all exponents of democratic government and African freedom as communists and bans many of them (who are not communists) under the Suppression of Communism Act.†
- They are supported in this belief by a legislature which brands all exponents of democratic government and African freedom as communists and bans many of them (who are not communists) under the Suppression of Communism Act.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Although I have never been a member of the Communist Party, I myself have been named under that pernicious Act because of the role I played in the Defiance Campaign.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It is not only in internal politics that we count communists as amongst those who support our cause.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- In the international field, communist countries have always come to our aid.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- In the United Nations and other Councils of the world the communist bloc has supported the Afro-Asian struggle against colonialism and often seems to be more sympathetic to our plight than some of the Western powers.†
- Although there is a universal condemnation of apartheid, the communist bloc speaks out against it with a louder voice than most of the white world.†
- In these circumstances, it would take a brash young politician, such as I was in 1949, to proclaim that the Communists are our enemies.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- I have denied that I am a communist, and I think that in the circumstances I am obliged to state exactly what my political beliefs are.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Indeed, for my own part, I believe that it is open to debate whether the Communist Party has any specific role to play at this particular stage of our political struggle.†
- From my reading of Marxist literature and from conversations with Marxists, I have gained the impression that communists regard the parliamentary system of the West as undemocratic and reactionary.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Definitions:
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(1)
(communism) an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)