Third International and the Struggle for National Liberation in South Africa

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Title:	Third International and the Struggle for National Liberation in South Africa
Author:	Kelley, Robin D.G.
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Ufahamu
Volume:	15
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	99-120
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	1928 apartheid communism conference papers (form) Politics and Government nationalism
Abstract:	The Sixth World Congress of the Communist Inernational in 1928 adopted a 'Resolution on the South African Question'. This resolution called for the right of self-determination for African people as well as the wholesale expropriation and redistribution of land to the peasantry. With few exceptions, historians as well as activists have argued that this resolution was little more than an abstract creation 'made in Moscow', or the result of Stalinist intrigue. This article concentrates on the impact that African nationalism in general, and African communists in particular, made on the Communist Party of South Africa as well as on the Communist International and shows that the demands embodied in the Comintern Resolution reflected the actual struggles of Africans in South Africa. Notes, ref.