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Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021

By TOM LODGE. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2021. 928 pp. ISBN 978 1 431 43134 2.

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Notes

1 See, for example, W.T. Shinn, Jr., ‘The “National Democratic State”: A Communist Programme for Less–Developed Areas’, World Politics, 15, 3 (April 1963), 377–389.

2 The photograph on page 1 is mislabeled. I have a photocopy of the full photograph of the December 1927 CPSA Conference, in which 25 individuals are identified by Rebecca Bunting. In the book two individuals are misidentified: Sidney Bunting, who is actually on the bottom row, far right, and Johnny Gomas, actually on the top row, far right.

3 Allison Drew, Discordant Comrades: Identities and Loyalties on the South African Left (Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 2000 and London, UK: Routledge, 2021).

4 A. Trapāns, ‘The Latvian Communist Party and the Purge of 1937’, Journal of Baltic Studies, 11, 1 (1980), 25–38.

5 A. Nash, ‘The Moment of Western Marxism in South Africa’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 19, 1 (1999), 66–82.

6 C. Donert, ‘Women’s Rights and Global Socialism: Gendering Socialist Internationalism during the Cold War’, International Review of Social History, 67, S30 (2022), 1–22, here 5.

7 Shinn, ‘National Democratic State’.

8 See for example the essays in Alexander Cockburn and Robin Blackburn, eds, Student Power: Problems, Diagnosis and Action (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969).

9 Andrew Nash, ‘The Moment of Western Marxism in South Africa’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 19, 1 (1999), 68.

10 Rob Davies, Towards a New Deal: A Political Economy of the Times of My Life (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2021), 12.

11 Alan Kirkaldy, Everyday Communists in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schrembrucker (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 62.

12 Chrispian Olver, How to Steal a City: The Battle for Nelson Mandela Bay (Cape Town: Jonathan Ball, 2017), 101–106.

13 Pieter-Louis Myburgh, Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture (Cape Town: Penguin, 2019), 202.

14 Tom Lodge, ‘The ANC and the Development of Party Politics in Modern South Africa’, Journal of Modern African Studies, 42, 2 (2004), 189–219.

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