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Apartheid, Thought Crime and South Africa's New Left: The Politics of Intellectual Repression

by Allison Drew
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781847014849
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: James Currey
  • Publisher Imprint: James Currey
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  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 472 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Modern / 20th Century / General

Of all the groups charged in the early 1960s under apartheid security laws in South Africa, the National Liberation Front was the only one whose members did not engage in violence. Yet six months after its launch, its founding members were arrested and then sentenced to between five and ten years in prison. Why?

A Cape Peninsula offshoot of the Non-European Unity Movement, the NLF was explicitly socialist and part of the long 1960s New Left. Although the NLF challenged South Africa's racial and capitalist orders, it has scarcely appeared in the liberation movement historiography. This book recovers the NLF's lost history, tracing its perspectives on colonialism, apartheid, political education and guerrilla struggle. The book examines the NLF in its international and national contexts, exploring its relationships with both the transnational New Left and the South African left, and evaluating the conditions producing and then smashing South Africa's New Left.
Debates about apartheid focus on race, political economy, and state and institutions. But apartheid also strove to control thought through unequal education and censorship. While bringing the NLF's critique of racial capitalism to life, the book also uncovers the NLF's unique educational approach and the state's attempt to contain its thinking.

Drew, Allison: - ALLISON DREW is Professor Emerita at the University of York, UK and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg Centre for Education Rights and Transformation.

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